Ox-cart Man is a book by Donald Hall, and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. It is worth the trip to the library to look at it. It is a lovely story about a self sufficient family, who are happy in their work. It makes me nostalgic for a time that I never lived in.
When my husband and I first read the book we would dream of being that family in their simple work filled world, and gentle joy.
Over time, we have moved from place to place, picking up skills, and stretching our abilities due to necessity. We now live on a small hobby farm (it is so small I don't know if it merits the term farm at all) in Upstate NY with our family and enjoy our attempts at self sufficiency. It is a very good thing we aren't dependant on those attempts -- we wouldn't survive long. I thought a blog might be a convenient place to record our errors, so you won't have to make the same mistakes we did. I think recipes, patterns, and projects might work here too.
I am not organized or creative or photographically inclined enough to have this be a design site, or a wonder-mama site, or a foodie site, or anything else so cool (I just read those, not produce them) and there won't be anything on here that you can't find in other places. Just a place to record my own ox-cart tracks.
