The Zeiger Family Homestead Blog, Year One

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 that 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. The other blog is 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?” Continue reading →

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It’s a Small World . . . .

The cutesy, multicultural, animatronic puppets in Disneyland are right: it is, indeed, a small world after all. I spoke with my brother, Dave, yesterday by phone. Why that’s unusual would not immediately occur to you unless you knew that Dave and his wife, Anke, live aboard their sailboat, Slacktide, and that, at the time I spoke to them, they were approaching Point Augusta on the west side of Chatham Strait. Apparently, there’s cell phone coverage out there, something I’d never suspected until now. Continue reading →

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