The Zeiger Family Homestead Blog

I started the Zeiger Family Homestead Blog a year ago today! It began with this post, then I left if alone for a week. I’d been recruited by another blog, The Self Reliance Exchange, which wasn’t quite ready to go on line when I was, and I tried to hold off long enough to coordinate the release of the two blogs. In other words, I had my priorities screwed up. SRE’s great, don’t get me wrong—but I soon realized that this is the blog to which I had to devote most of my time and energy. A year later, it seems worth it, mostly because of the feedback we’ve received from you, the reader.

“So, what,” you may ask, “does the one year mark mean to me, the reader?” (more…)

I just might love autumn more than the other seasons of the year, but I have a little trouble celebrating it as I see fit in its early days. For all my talk about seasons starting as infants and maturing with time, factions within the family prefer to delay the onset of autumn to preserve “summer” birthdays. Because of this, I have to be discrete about welcoming autumn at least until after August 10th.

A change of weather, a change of seasons: clouds over "The Mountain with No Name" and "LC Mountain" (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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