It all started when we came home after a trip out of town. The tranquil homestead we’d left two weeks […]

It all started when we came home after a trip out of town. The tranquil homestead we’d left two weeks […]
No doubt about it. The weather outside is frightful. The National Weather Service is calling for a windchill of -52 […]
The glass of water on my bedside table hasn’t frozen. Yet. But the evening mist now leaves frosty geometric patterns across […]
But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the […]
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. —Don Corleone, The Godfather: Part III Here at the yurt there’s always a […]
If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. —Thich Nhat Hanh In the two years that […]
Here come the earth movers; They’re coming to take it away. Topsoil, spruce, stumps, and weeds; Oh how we’ve pined […]
Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, Forget about your worries and your strife; I mean the bare […]
After four months in Italy, we’ve finally returned to the yurt. If our first trip out to the property is […]
As you might have guessed, living in a yurt without running water in freezing temperatures is bearable for only so […]
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Poems are made by fools like me, […]
I’m glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. —Chris G. Fall is here. The tourists are gone, the […]
“Oh no, don’t do that,” my mom said when I called to tell her that I’d be staying at the […]
Fly fishing for trout: for me it’s not about catching a lot of, or big, fish. It’s about so much […]
Flowers are the earth laughing. —Ralph Waldo Emerson As the undisputed “Crown of the Continent,” Glacier National Park is grand, […]
Like much of the U.S. right now, we are suffering from a brutal heat wave. The highs are twenty degrees […]
Happy Fourth of July! We hope everyone had a great time celebrating 236 years of independence from the Kingdom of […]
Well, Readers, it’s been a while since I’ve posted about the topic I’m sure you’re all dying to know more […]
The thing about living in a yurt in the middle of nowhere is that every task takes three times longer […]
In a state as vast, remote, and sparsely populated as Montana, square-foot gardening may seem absurd. I know it probably […]