Wintertime doldrums

There isn't much going on about now.

Winter at our place usually means lots of reading or playing games or talking.

Oh ... and cutting wood. I was unwise last year and didn't cut any at all. We were having a bit of difficulty getting the heater installed and weren't sure it would get done in time for winter.

And I thought, "well I'm not going to cut all this wood if we can't even use it."

Silly me.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. -Proverbs 6:6-8

Even if I couldn't have burned it myself, I still could've sold it. Now I'm rushing trying to keep up with the stove.

Praise God we are blessed with friends who allow us to cut wood on their land.

Who are we?

We are a middle-aged couple living in southeast Kansas seeking a return to a more simple, wholesome and deliberate life.

One day I was pondering the modern meaning of the word homesteader, and I thought of the play on words that make the title of this blog ... home(in)steader. And I realized that that phrase says more about what we're trying to achieve in life than anything else I could write.

We want to be home instead.

Instead of what? you may ask. We want to be at home, instead of working long hours to make someone else rich. We want to be at home, instead of sending our children off to institutionalized day-care and public school systems. We want to be at home, instead of out searching for the next big thrill.

Instead of doing anything else, we want to be at home.

This blog will serve as a semi-sometime newsletter of our lives for friends and family.