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09:28, 2006-Jan-28 .. 4 comments .. Link

Sitting down to write my first entry is kind of a strange thing..... I'm not really sure where to begin! I'm learning to be content with living in a "fishbowl" as I call our neighborhood. We live on a cul-de-sac lot which means that everyone's house faces each other. I literally feel like I live in a fishbowl most of the time! Thank goodness for the backyard, where we have about a mile of woods and wetlands. It's my only real privacy. As much as I'd love to be out in the middle of nowhere, this seems to be the place God has put us. We have a nice home, and are working to make it "our own".... but I'll never have chickens or a really large garden. However - little by little, I'm learning how to do things from scratch, and re-discovering some of the lost arts that were once so common place. I know that bee-keeping and raising chickens just won't be in the realm of my possibilities, but I sure had fun nursing my little patio garden last summer! As I learn how to simply *live* in my home, I seem to love being home more and more. I don't want "home" to just be the "waystation" of our family as we come and go... I want home to be where we live full lives, create rich memories and nurture deep relationships with each other. Because we homeschool, that sure helps, but it's still so easy to get caught up in the "culture" that just goes and goes and goes. Just because you *can* go out to the store to buy all your things, does that mean you *should*? Honestly - I dread going to the store with all my children in tow. Even with "good kids", I leave that place stressed out to the max! How much more rewarding is that time spent staying home and baking our bread from scratch, rather than fighting the traffic, parking lot, stimulation overload of the store and a cranky cashier, just to go buy it. There has to be a better way.... even living in the city. I've just decided that if God is going to leave us here, then He has a reason for that, and I can still learn to enjoy a quiet, simple life... even in the fishbowl!
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Welcome!

10:13, 2006-Jan-28 .. Posted by gardengirl
I think your attitude is wonderful! You can be a homesteader in the middle of a bustling city. It just all depends on your attitude and outlook. Way to go!

Hello

10:15, 2006-Jan-28 .. Posted by TheLandIsCalling
Welcome! Homesteading isn't where you live it is how you live. Glad you are here.
Blessings,
Andrea

I know what you mean

10:57, 2006-Jan-29 .. Posted by spinninggrandma
I lived in a fish bowl for a while ... in a trailer court, for crying out loud! People on the left of me, people on the right of me, people behind me, people in front of me. Now, logically, I knew that everyone had too much to do rather than watch what I did, but I could feels eyes on me, even in my house!

Now I live with my nearest neigbor 1/2 mile away I can breath!!!

Good luck with your fishbowl!! How about some hedges to block the 'eyes' from the front and sides?

beekeeping in a fishbowl

12:03, 2006-Apr-21 .. Posted by Anonymous
I was just told...check the books. Honey bees are important to our agriculture business and the local zoning \"rules\" might be bent a bit if you come at it from a statewide benefit to all farmers. Michigan is hurting for bees.....from flutterby

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