“To be free is to be master of oneself. For many people such mastery involves freedom of action, movement, and opinion, the opportunity to achieve the goals they have set themselves. This conviction locates freedom primarily outside oneself and overlooks the tyranny of thoughts. Indeed it is commonplace in the West that freedom means being […]
“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.” – Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankle
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25 day old chicks are getting settled into their temporary home. We will move them into the new chicken coop in a week or two.
“There is an American doctor who wrote about the results of competition on his life. He said he went to medical school in Switzerland, and he said there was a fairly large contingent of Americans at that school. He said some of us went into shock when we realized that there were no grades, and
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Since our new honey bees don’t have any food we have to supply it for them initially. Instead of buying a plastic feeder we found a nice video explaining how we could make our own bee feeder from Philip Chandler, here. The roof of the hive is removed showing the top lid for the bee feeder
I am not particularly fond of trapping bees, but these carpenter bees are wreaking havoc on our cabin. Last year the Carpenter Bees made Swiss cheese out of the soffits on the cabin. My dad made a very slick Carpenter Bee trap that I hung right under the still damaged soffit. The first bee of
“I had quit my job as head of public relations at CIGNA—a job that had paid me deep into six figures—because I could no longer serve in good conscience as a spokesman for an industry whose routine practices amount to a death sentence for thousands of Americans every year.” – Deadly Spin by Wendell Potter
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We have talked about getting involved with beekeeping ever since we got our place. It helps pollinate our garden as well as some new fruit trees. We found an apiary about an hour away so we ordered a box of bees. The pickup date on the bees was March 25th, but we had a cold
We have a new addition to the Maitri Homestead. Bonnie is a 3 month old Australian Shepherd. She is already doing great with the chickens and cats.
“There are currently 6.6 million people in the United States either in jail, on probation or on parole. Of those, more than two million are incarcerated. And of those two million — half of whom were added in the last ten years — more than sixty per cent are non-violent drug offenders. There has been