A little bit more about us...

To understand the purpose of this blog it helps to understand whom Elizabeth and I are; where we are coming from and to where we are going.

We are both simple people, we know where we stand on faith issues and our greatest pleasures come from the simplicities of living a natural life.

We've been married for five years as of May 25th 2012. Two things brought our marriage together: faith and homesteading. When Elizabeth and I met we were both on the same page in terms of our theology and our desire to homestead, for us the two are almost inseparable. I'm trying to make this as simple as possible, but with all things in our life, it is all intricate.

Elizabeth and I were what the world calls "fundamentalist Christians", we now look back and think that is a joke compared to where we are now. After we were married it seemed that we only became more and more conservative as the months went by. We struggled deeply with our desire to blend into a crowd, but our overwhelming convictions had greater control over our decisions. Elizabeth and I both come from families that can easily blend into any American scene, Elizabeth and I however are anything but that. In a day and age when most Christians look no different than heathens, Elizabeth and I stand out as the exception. We don't accept the idea that as Christians we are to be "separated" but yet still be identical to "the world". 

To make this easier for everyone to understand in the most simple of comparisons I will explain like this; we have the theology of the UPCI, the wisdom and preaching of the Old German Baptist Brethren, and the lifestyle of the Amish. Now to get quicker to the point I will explain this, we currently are not living off the land as we desire yet, nor are we horse and buggy yet. Being as we come from non-plain families, our conversion to the simple life that we desire is taking longer than we'd both prefer. That being said, we have both committed to making the big jump in what is now approximately 4 years and 10 months. 

To make a full conversion and to learn all that we will need to know, it is best to make the process as long as is tolerable. There are so many topics to study and so much experience that is needed to be garnered. 

To be clear on all topics; we will not have electricity.
We still discuss where we stand on plumbing. We both know ourselves well enough to know that if we declared now that we will have plumbing in the future, that we could end up changing our minds and appearing as liars. One of our greatest precepts that determine our methods is, Work with nature-Not against it. God designed this world to function a specific way and it is up to us to obey his design.

In this blog Elizabeth and I will do our best to keep everyone up-to-date on where we stand with our "conversion". Every week we are learning lessons that we can take to our farm, we'll relay those lessons and information to you.

Here are some basics on the two of us. We are both college graduates, Elizabeth is currently studying to get her masters in business. She works in an office for a large company. I on the other-hand drive a semi for a relatively small trucking company. On Saturday's I am learning the art of "wooden hand plane making" in the town of Eureka Springs, AR. The two of us have many story's that will be finding their way onto this blog in just a matter of time, check back often!