As most of you know, we’ve had a vision for the next phase for a while now. It involves a bigger house on some land, and becoming a community hub where families come together to eat, swap recipes and health tips, and like-minded people call on the name of the Lord in worship and prayer.
Farm Fresh Wishes and Chicken Feather Dreams
Daniel sent me this chicken coop photo to drool over today. I added it to my bookmark folder which is wistfully titled after the street my dream house is on. Photo credit: Treehugger
Stuck
This blog is supposed to be about our family’s adventure in urban farming. It’s meant to entertain by letting us make fools of ourselves as we milk a goat for the first time and try to figure out which of our baby chicks are girls and which are boys. It’s supposed to make you think …
Gigipotamus: It Takes a Village
In our culture, it seems you just don’t live with your relatives unless there’s no other option, and you have to look long and hard to find another option before you get a pass. So why has our family embraced such an unfashionable lifestyle? What do I get out of selling my house and giving …
Sell My House and I’ll Make You Dinner
Today is the first day we have our house up for sale. For now it’s just a For Sale By Owner sign in the yard and an “Open House” on Saturdays and Sundays. It’s a great house, but our vision requires more land and, ahem, more suitable quarters for our live-in Gigi. We’re still waiting …
Gigipotamus: Exit Strategy
Thought you’d be interested in this update: Never again will that lake outside my window hinder me from my preferred exit on co-op days. This week I bought a pair of almost knee-high wellies from Target. Too bad no one is around at 3am to see how totally fashionable I am crawling out my window!
Daddypotamus: There’s Something Prophetic and Pioneering in all this
Hey, everyone… Daniel here (a.k.a. DanielthePoet – a.k.a. Daddypotamus?). As I began to explain in my last blog post, we’re doing the family blog thing. Originally, we were going to start a third blog for all our family stories. I’d already condensed my DanielthePoet.com blog back into DanielDessinger.com, and Heather and I both sort of …
Letter I found on the couch
Dear Daniel, There’s a lake outside my window so I’ll have to go out the front door to co-op in the morning. Use earplugs. – Gigi How do I even begin to explain the context of this note? I was going to roll out the big plan for you when we had it all in …
House Hunting
Daniel and I are looking for a house. Actually Daniel, my mom and I are looking for a house. This is one we looked at today in Keller. It’s not going to work, but I loved the exterior and the property. Our wish list is going to be hard to meet, but we have high …
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