Great Minds Think Alike

So I recently mentioned to my husband that I'd started this here spot on the Interwebs to talk about all sorts of stuff that would be uninteresting to most everyone we know. Stuff like paying off debt, buying a house in the country, raising chickens, keeping bees, living simply and generally being the crunchy, tree-hugging folks we are. Or want to be. And what do you know, but he said that he started a blog many moons ago to talk about some of the same things. It's been left dormant for a while, but I thought that some of the entries might provide some insight into how we got to where we are now. For instance:

Beginnings
Written by Josh on May 27th, 2008

Kati and I have been thinking about the way that we and people in general live life. Of course, we aren’t the first or only people to think about these things, but this blog will be for us to record our thoughts and ideas. Perhaps some of these thoughts will become plans, and some of those plans realities.

Lately we’ve been noticing that our household income has been steadily rising, but our stress level hasn’t decreased. We acquire things — possessions — but aren’t satisfied.

We’re reading about the homesteading and self-sufficiency movement (or practice) as it’s done today and wondering what it would take for us to live that kind of life. Would it be possible for us to make the switch from suburban white-bread to tending a small plot of land as a family and living off of what we can together produce? Can we get to a point of not living in excess?

I'll plan on posting a few items here and there from his blog as it's relevant to the conversation. And, I've invited him to be a part of the blog as well, so I'm sure he'll pop in and write about his thoughts and passions every now and then.