In past blog posts, I’ve mentioned both Lou Ureneck and Mark Van Roojen. If the Internet is the “Information SuperHighway”, then I guess you could call Mark, Lou, and I ”neighbors” on the same “Internet gravel road”. Mark had some weather slow downs during his trip west in June, and Lou spent time away from the
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One of the most common questions I get about living at Two Mile Ranch is, “do you ever get lonely?” I’ve written Five Things You Should Know about Living in Solitude earlier on this site.
It’s a fair question. The idea of living alone in less than 700 ft. is a far cry from typical. Readers
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Scaling back is the new black.
According to the National Association of Home Builders, houses started in the third quarter of 2008 averaged 2,438 square feet, down from 2,629 feet in the previous quarter. That’s a whole extra room — poof!
via Cut your square footage in half – MSN Real Estate.
Country real estate columnist, contractor, PhD, and land consultant Curtis Seltzer writes about isolation in rural America.
The topic is timley in that is offers a different view of the isolation of the rural counties in America. He is responding to a Washington post article on maple syrup makers in Virgiina in which the Post’s David
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