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Kathleen
Join Date:
2012-03-31
About
I live in an off-the-grid homestead with my husband and assorted critters in the middle of the state forest in upstate NY. We try to live a self-sufficient life as much as possible in these times. Contrary to popular belief.....we are not living old fashioned, but as my husband likes to say, "of the future." Blending high tech with ways of old for a peaceful, stress free existence. It is called "Modern Homesteading!"
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1. Homesteading On The Internet
I live in the middle of the forest on an off-the-grid homestead. I blog about my life and how I live this way and how you can live a self-sufficient lifestyle in this modern world.
Tags: homesteading, modern homesteading, Self Reliance, homesteaders, self-sufficiency
Latest Blog Posts
- Garden Time For MePatches found a cool spot! I have been having a productive week here working outside in my garden. It is sunny, warm and breezy. So not too hot and the breeze keeps those nasty little black flies (or better known as, "May Bugs" here in NY) away from...
- Learning To Watermark Images On Wordless WednesdayCopyright © 2013 Kathleen G. Lupole All Photographs Copyright © 2013 Kathleen G. Lupole...
- Thinking Of My Wonderful Father On His Birthday! Daddy on my brother's horse, Dusty Today would have been my father's 94th birthday. As most of my readers know, he passed away last August. Last year on his birthday, he told my brother that it would be his last. I think he was ready. No...
- Happy Mother's Day 2013!My mother, Hazel Neer Dran Happy Mother's Day to all my readers and their mothers today! I was very fortunate to have a very loving and caring mother. She thought there was nothing my brother, Mickey, or I could not do. Her love for her family was...
- La Crosse Weather CenterWeather Center is on the barn, to the left of the door. The La Crosse Weather Center is part of our alternative energy system. As my husband is installing our wind turbine, FINALLY, we need a way of knowing how strong our wind is. If it is over 50...
- The Loomis Cemetery In Tyner, NY Is Full Of History!I loved this old tree in the cemetery! A few days ago, my husband and I took advantage of the beautiful weather we are having, to spend a recent morning in a local cemetery. It is one of our favorite activities! I wanted to add a picture of a grave...
- Watching my seedlings grow! Tomato seeds planted in this one. From a container of dirt, some water and sunshine...........comes our food! Every spring, gardening fills my thoughts. I want to always grow more every year, than I did the year before. Seedlings in...
- Watching My Seedlings Grow! Tomato seeds planted in this one. From a container of dirt, some water and sunshine...........comes our food! Every spring, gardening fills my thoughts. I want to always grow more every year, than I did the year before. Seedlings in...
- Through The Woods We GoSaturday was a beautiful day here in upstate New York. So my husband and I went out for breakfast. Then took a ride to check out a property that was for sale. It sounded promising, as our future homestead home. Thirty acres of land with a beautiful h...
- The Wind Farm In Madison CountyWind Farm In Madison County, NY Today my husband and I went on a road trip. Drove up through Hamilton, NY, after we had breakfast in Norwich. I have always wanted to find the famous wind farm out past Sherburne, NY, but wasn't sure exactly how to fi...
- Planted My First Garden Crop This YearFirst Crop In! In my favorite book, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, written by homesteader, Carla Emery, she tells of planting the first seeds in the early spring, which were peas. Since she was in Idaho, her spring was probably much colder than...
- Heat And Eat Meals For The Home CannerMy New Pressure Canner Works Great! (Previous blog post about it) I have been canning my garden produce for many years now. But I don't stop there. Canning meat or produce that I didn't grow myself is something I do often too. Canning for me...
- Tom Cats Are Hard To Control!Nose is all scratched up! Spots came here at the end of August last year. He is a tomcat and I had every intention of having him neutered. The biggest problem was that he is not the kind of cat to be in a house or contained in any way. I had won his...
- A Cool Spring In New YorkPatches checking out the lilies! I finally did get my seeds started. I only started about half of them. Without a greenhouse or proper place to put them, it makes our already crowded house, hard to get around in. Now I have to worry about them not m...
- Facebook IssuesHobo keeping a look-out! Do you ever just get tired of people on Facebook who are always judging you? Always making comments on your posts because they don't agree with it, but have to put their two cents on your page? Why don't they just mind the...
- 10 Ways To Become Self-SufficientBecoming self-sufficient is more important than ever right now. Everything has gone up in the grocery stores. Gas is expensive and driving very far from home to get the best deals is not always good to do. There are ways to overcome that and I will s...
- Feeling Lucky With Sales & The LotteryGeorgie Girl & Nikita sharing a drink! I have not been writing as regular as I should on this blog. My husband and I started listing our products into a new ProStore on Amazon. Our sales on our two websites have not been very good in recent mont...
- Do Not Judge By Feedback Or Reviews On Amazon Or eBayI saw a perfect example of how a buyer can affect a good product by not knowing the proper way to leave a review or a feedback on Amazon. This buyer purchased a product and when it arrived, one of the glass jars were broke. She blamed it on the selle...
- Spring Plans For Our HomesteadA few days ago at Peaceful Forest Things are looking up for us, in this past week. A very good week, I must say! Last week I FINALLY got a buyer for my parents' home. Not only that, but the buyer is a local business man and will not turn their home...
- Time Passes At Peaceful Forest HomesteadOur backyard! Today, was three weeks ago that my little girl, Nikita passed away. It is also seven months ago today, that my father passed away. Both are missed and thought of every day. My father of course, did not live with me. When he was in the...
