Eric and I are very proud of our two sons.  They are kind, good humored and hard working young men.  As parents, over the years we’ve done our share of the good cop - bad cop routine.  The majority of the time I was the good cop and Eric was the bad cop.  His most effective parenting strategy for the teen years was to tell the boys to “own your sh*t”.  This technique covered the gamut from homework completion and chores around the house to major moral decisions faced by all…

The goal for August was to spend the month preparing our food in new and interesting ways.  We swore off the stove and grill.  We don’t own a microwave.  I melted the door in a tragic kitchen incident years ago and we just never replaced it.  So we were left with fire, raw food and rocks.

When we planned these months almost a year ago we obviously didn’t take into account the monsoon weather of a typical Florida August.  We had prepared fire…

TP or not TP

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Will barter for tech

skills

TP or not TP was the question that started this month.  November is “no waste” month.  Our goal is to not put anything into the waste stream.  Whatever comes into the house has to be recycled, composted, or reused.  We began talking about what that would look like about a month or so in advance.  After our experiences with…

Sorry for the delay in posting. Currently, Anna and I are in the “harvest” time of the year at our jobs. Things have ramped up considerably and we have some catching up to do. We have been actively chipping away at our goals, keeping notes and hope to get caught up this month.

So… this narrative will be Volunteer Month from Eric’s perspective.

Anna took the bull by the horns…