Week two of being snowed in. A little over a week ago we decided to brave a blizzard in my tiny little car in spite of the warnings and it ended up being a 23 hour trip rather than the 13 or so we’d bargained on. We had to abandon the car a kilometer away [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Mortgage-free Property: Part Two
Posted in Sustainable living, tagged community, intentional communities, mortgage-free, Sustainable living on January 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Mortgage-free Property
Posted in Sustainable living, tagged alternatives, land, mortgage-free, natural building, property, sustainable building, Sustainable living on January 6, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Don’t have the money to buy land? Consider ‘borrowing’ a patch of land before you lock into a mortgage that will have you working to pay it off for who knows how many years. We met a gentleman last year who has been borrowing land for about forty-five years. Hasn’t owned land since he landed [...]
I’d Rather be a Hermit
Posted in Sustainable living, tagged Canada, consumerism, popular media, waste on January 4, 2011 | 12 Comments »
As may have been obvious from my last post, I’ve had a rough week or so. It happens. I go through cycles of optimism (or the closest I get to optimism) and despair, directed related to how much time I spend with people. I was doing just fine. Working away at our plans, on landscape [...]
