Grocery shopping!

Well, here in Mississippi it is time for me (Michael) to go grocery shopping! This means it is archery season for deer.  It is a big part of me teaching my kids how to be sustainable.  We all love deer meat in this house, any way we can get it.  We roast it, fry it, broil it, grill it, grind it, and stew it.  This winter we will be posting some cooking tips and recipes for wild game.  So I hope God blesses you, the hunter, and may your freezers be full! "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28 KJV)"

Sustainability rocks!!

Wow! Well yesterday my lovely wife found out that she has hypothyroidism, and today my daughter found out that she has the same problem.  Though it is , in my opinion, best to eat healthy and take natual vitamins and stay away from procesed foods and medicines, because we live in a fallen world our bodies will still break down.  So thankfull we have a God that has blesses folks with the ability to create certain medicine to make us better. This is why I am trying hard to become sustainable so that I can support my family the best possible way. 

The Family that works together...

Hurts together. Sweats together. Stabs themselves with nails together. 

Today was about togetherness. Actually, no it wasn't. It was about salvaging all that we could from a 120 year old home. Someone generously let us have the materials in exchange for tearing it down. So, we took a home school field trip to demo this house. We darted among holes in the floor, spiders everywhere, rusty pieces of metal, and the remnants of a former tenant, to retrieve the good stuff and leave the bad. We got a bunch of good things, and there is still more to be done, but most importantly, we learned how to work together. We had assembly lines going with all hands on deck (minus the littlest one) and got the work done in record time. This day goes down on the books as a successful learning trip that will, hopefully, make us money in the end. Come back and read later to see what treasures we can get from a pile of old junk. 

 Before we started tearing the house down. 

 All of us in the truck on the way to demo.

 Teresa giving Selah instructions. 

 Benjamin unhooking the trailer.

 Selah moving the door. 

Teresa tearing out heart pine walls. 

 Loading metal on the trailer.

The end of demo day 1.

To be continued...