Living-Deliberately.com

I don’t “surf” the web much. I am the proverbial creature of habit and I have my little routine of places I go every morning and then it’s off to bigger and better things (otherwise known as life with children). But lately I’ve become totally hooked on agrarian blogs…blogs written by city people like myself who are compelled to move towards a more organic life. Some of them do it on suburban acres, some on rural homesteads, all with alot of sacrifice and love.

Here are a few of my favorites:

a Kansas dairy farm

The Deliberate Agrarian (gotta love that title ‘eh?)

doin’ it without moving out to the sticks

she has bees and goats!! and a cow!! And she lives in my state!

Now, it definately begs an explanation. Why, in the season in which I’m planting a large garden, hosting visisting family, finishing up many activities for the year with the chickens, do I have time to be perusing blogs??!?!

Well, that’s due to my uber-guru, aka brother in law Joel. This is him:

After hours upon hours spent on the phone walking me through Dell’s screw ups, Joel (also the designer of this blog) spent much of his visit this weekend getting my router set up to work. Which means friends, I’m WIRELESS!!! I can be online (and it’s a deliciously fast connection too) in any room of the house. On the front porch! In the yard under my big tree!

Ah….freedom. No more swishy “dial up” noise and sitting there waiting for things to load. No more avoiding a huge percentage of the internet because it would take too long. In short, it’s a tool that I can use and in a techno-strange way, getting more sophisticated has actually simplified life.

So thank you Joel! He does computer stuff for a living and also sells for one of the companies that he manages web stuff for. Thier company has tons of sunbrella fabrics for porch furniture, which just so happens to be on the spring chore list of many! You can buy great looking teak furniture and umbrellas here.

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