Goodbye to the old and Hello to the New!

Tomorrow will be the last day that the website and the board will be up, so we switch over to the blog full-time on Sunday.  Hopefully, folks will still be able to find us.  We've had the website up since 1998 and the board since 1994, so it's been a long time.  We really hope our folks will stay with us here.  The nice thing about the blog is followers can ask questions or make comments directly on the blog instead of having to send an e-mail. 

First Fire in the New Furnace!

He got the cold air return installed for the furnace on the house and built the first fire in the furnace this morning.  The walls and ceilings are up in every room now, except for the kitchen and bathroom.  The house is really looking great.  He has done an amazing job on it!

Homesteading

I have some of the homesteading things moved from the old website and updated here now.  Hope to have a lot more done over this next week, since we don't have any appointments scheduled or plans to go anywhere till next Saturday.  Keeping fingers crossed!  In the meantime, he has made a LOT of progress on the house too.  So, all is good in our part of the woods. 

Getting Started

I've gotten a start on moving some of the most pertinent things from the website to here.  Sometimes, it seems as if we have so much stuff going on.  Lee is working hard to get the house finished inside before Thanksgiving.  Then we've had doctor appointments and all kinds of other things going on too.  Hopefully, life will slow down a little after we get moved into the new house.  Our website has been online for a little over 13 years, so it was hard for me to let it go.  Realistically, I'm hoping we can keep this blog smaller and easier for people to find information on homesteading, self-sufficiency, and preparedness. 

Moving....

As we've been building the new house, we've stopped to review a lot of things.  There is a lot of *stuff* we won't be moving to the new house.  Our website hosting package is set to renew on October 2 of this year.  The package price is going up (again), a lot of our website is no longer pertinent to us, and I just haven't had the time or energy to devote to it like I used to.  Once they quit allowing Front Page to publish... then I was lost.  ;-)  Anyway, we'll be going through boxes and stuff that we've had stored in the rafters of the shop for over 6 years now.  We'll be selling stuff, giving stuff to the kids, and just plain throwing STUFF away.  We just have way too much STUFF.  Our website has been online for 13 years.  I'm going to go through the website and get rid of a lot of Stuff on it, and move the pertinent Stuff here.  So, Very Soon, we'll be moving into our new house and moving into a new home on the web too.  Please bear with me during the transition.