True Left

Folks must realize that simple does NOT mean easy. This is a very physical life, growing food, raising chickens, cutting wood for the wood stove to keep warm. Thinking simple means easy is a romantic idea not based in reality. There is beauty in homesteading, but it is not for the faint of heart. When you get older, or injured or have health issues creep up on you, simple becomes not so simple.  We are in our 60's, my husband a disabled Air Force veteran and have lived on our mountain property for almost 19 years, but it is a daily struggle to grow our gardens and do daily tending of the land and the flocks. I would not want to be anywhere else. I have lost my tolerance for people and artificial noise. The country has gone very soft and often the dream is much more difficult than folks imagine. ~Cynthia