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Oh yes, I forgot to say, Internet has been successfully installed at my cabin, and the last two posts were made from home! Yay! It was not without MORE headaches though, since the installer didn’t seem to realize that you can’t point the satellite right at a clump of heavy, old oak trees. We had…
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The most sacred, the most hallowed place on earth is the home of each and every citizen. There are his sacred hearth and his household gods, there the very centre of his worship, religion, and domestic ritual. -Cicero, De Domo Sua 41, 109 This is a tiny cabin; there is not a lot of wall…
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Internet was supposed to be installed today. I got a call saying I needed to call them back because there was a problem, and just then my phone signal went out for no discernible reason. That happens sometimes out in the boonies. So I had to drive to the nearby town (not the big one,…
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The Gods for January’s GMC from the Neos Alexandria pantheon are Ammon and Aphrodite. I’m rolling over Idunna into January. I’ve been so busy, I have not been keeping up with some things that I should have been. SIGH. Life is fucking brutal sometimes. I just want to write, worship, grow food, and raise animals.…
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Below is a picture of the woodburning stove. I took it with the door open so you can see the fire. The wall behind it is covered with sheet metal for safety (it was actually left over from some of our summer projects, which I referred to in this post). The sheet metal was something else…
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Our close friends Sarah* and Ben* have been trying to get the money together to get out here for a while, since the middle of November. They finally got here around the 14h of December or so. We’ve known Ben* since we were all teenagers. They are pretty much family at this point, but the…
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Homestead Update for November and the first half of December The beginning of November was still relatively warm, at least from the perspective of someone who is not only from the Michigan/Indiana area, but has gone four years without heat in their house in the heavy-lake-effect snow area around South Bend. Although most of the…
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My internet was unexpectedly canceled on me. I have a hotspot, and the hotspot switched carriers without warning so that I didn’t have any signal. I never would have bought if it was on Verizon, because they don’t have signal where I live out in the sticks. We checked to be sure it was on…
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Well, here in America, its Voting Day. In a few hours we’ll know who the new President is, and one way or another it’ll be a historic one, either the first woman President or the first reality-TV star President. For the record I don’t like either of them at all, but I’m actually not going…
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Posting again after so many years inactive can be awkward. I’m not sure what to say that will excuse my absence, or how I should begin this post. My life in the last few years has gone through an extensive and complete deconstruction. I’ve been through many crises – both spiritual and material – and I…
Temple of Athena the Savior 