When I first got here, I thought that I’d slip in unassuming-like and blend in with the scenery. Kind of hang around the periphery of the community in a way that an ethnologically-minded journalist might, collecting stories that weren’t theirs. Or to use more military terms, infiltrate the target population or embed with a friendly […]

There should be a German loan word for the pleasure that one gets from finally using something that one bought but apparently didn’t need (yet). That has been one of my biggest joys here, using those wishful things that I’d paid good money for but never put into action. For example, the pseudo-military trenching tool, […]

I might have said this before, but I’ve found that this experience of homesteading has made me appreciate a number of usually mundane things. Hot water with the twist of a tap and walls sockets that flow an endless stream of electricity being the obvious ones. But today, I dedicate a post to appreciating – […]