Just wanted to let you know that this blog has achieved its goal: it does encourage me to believe in my dreams, that have been fading, or sputtering, the last few years. I've always dreamed of living close to real wilderness, space and quiet, with practical work and worries (not the "worries" of suburbia), but now past 30 and married, I feel further and further away from such things being possible or even such dreams being "realistic". But your blog makes me think otherwise.

That was a gutsy move, going in debt with a loan to buy an "unlivable" house. I don't know if I would have had the guts to do that, even though it's something that I have dreamed of. But seeing it pay off, like it seems to have, encourages me that these things are possible.

Bookmarking this blog: Keep posting!