Friday, January 6, 2012

welcome!

please join our family on a journey towards homesteading. We are city folks from Austin TX, who decided to pack our 6 kids and 4 pets and move across the country to start a family farm. The woods of northern Oregon are certainly different... we moved in to our farm exactly 3 weeks ago today and, boy have we been busy!

our first order of business was getting high speed internet so my husband could work (he telecommutes)...but as many things are here-that was easier said than done. we still haven't gotten a solution that allows him to work from home- so for now he works from the Starbucks in the closest town.
one by one we have been fixing and repairing things that have had little or no upkeep around the old 1920's farmhouse. things like ungrounded electrical outlets and leaking toilets. and a few days ago we added a new member to the farm- a great Pyrenees puppy we named Bella. Bella's job will be protecting kids and lvestock from the bobcats and cougars in the woods behind out house.

meet Bella- who on her first romp through the yard found the empty, still wet paint tub from paint the new dog fence !

5 comments:

  1. Liz, I'll be really interested to follow your journey. It's one that has long appealed to me and I think if my husband could telecommute we'd be there!

    I've met a few pyreneean mountain dogs and they're lovely. In Australia quite a lot of people use maremmas for similar purposes.

    Anyway, thank you for sharing and I'm looking forward to hearing more.

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  2. Awww, Bella is so cute! We're gonna have to come up there again so I can meet her.

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  3. Congratulations on your new home and new blog! I'll be interested in following your journey. Love and light to all of you!

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  4. What a darling puppy! Trust a puppy to find a paint bucket.

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