The Final Push

It has taken some doing for us to get things to this point in our adventure.

Decisions … decisions … decisions.

Quite a lot of decisions over the course as we worked through the logistics involved in successfully accomplishing this major change in life after sixty. Decisions always have consequences of one sort or another. Decisions always have ramifications. Some of the ramifications are immediate. Some show up down the road a ways.

We have been careful in weighing a lot of ideas over this course before making decisions. We have done that back and forth dance a number of times on some things to insure making the best possible decisions and have, so far in the adventure, done a really good job of eliminating the unwanted effects of poorly thought through decisions.

This forty mile leap is a major change that involves a lot more than geographic distance.

It involves a major lifestyle change.

It is not, for us, one that is unexpected or unprepared for. It is more along the lines of finally being able to more fully put into practice and enjoy our personal lifestyle preferences … elements that we have been practicing all along yet never been quite able to invest ourselves in fully.

A lot of people move. A lot of people move great distances. We have both done it several times during our lives. Short distance moves. Great distance moves. The thing about moves is that people can move … across the street or across the country … and the only major change is geographic location. Other than the geography, and the faces that occupy the geography, nothing else changes. Lifestyles generally remain the same where most geographic moves are concerned.

We would not recommend what we are doing to the uninitiated … to those that haven't studied long on the subject, done their homework, acquired skills suited to the task, and greased their psychological bearings. Simply being fed up with the modern social disorder isn't enough. An infatuation with the involved romanticism isn't enough. Both of these are inherent elements. There is, however, a lot more to this than the combined motivation of these two elements.

We do recommend and encourage people to investigate and invest themselves in endeavors that lead to simplicity and self-reliance. Every step toward simplicity and self-reliance is an important step. Every step that lessens our dependency upon others and upon the system is a step in the right direction. Who knows where the steps will lead? Maybe to a small cabin the woods?

Want to and how to can become can do.

I don't remember the date that I first stumbled across the original Mother Earth News. That was a long time ago. Right after it first started rolling off the press. The original magazine was great. A lot of people were fed up. A lot of people were infatuated. A lot of people were launching out on great Green Acres adventures. The greatest number of these lots of people succumbed and returned to their former lifestyles for one reason or another. The want to was there. A lot of how to was there. Somewhere, along the way, the can do gave out. I think, in the end, social pressure was, and will likely always be, the meanest culprit that exhausts the can do and causes people to abandon their adventures.

Most of modern society simply can't get their minds wrapped around a Walden Lifestyle or any simplify, simplify semblance thereof. And too few of us lack the spinal iron to give the finger to social pressure, regardless who its source is, and walk away from it.

The winter food plot is looking great.

We added a few items to it over the weekend ... beds of salad makings. A bed sown with two types of leafy lettuce. A bed sown with Romaine. And a small bed sown with Mesclun Mix to spice up our winter salads.

We have, until now, taken a systematic gradual approach to getting things moved to and set up at the cabin. There have been a lot of up and back trips. It is now time to give this thing the final major push and wrap it up.

Our goal?

At some point, before the end of October, we will be full-timing it at The Cabin On Huckleberry Hill.