It’s been busy lately… almost too busy. Katie and I just celebrated our one year wedding anniversary, and what a year it’s been. With the birth of Rustic Pines MN, we’ve hopefully not only put down roots for our future, we’ve developed an opportunity to bring us closer together as a couple. The simple comradery … [Read more…]
Up to this point, we have encountered snow on every venture into our property. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve been enjoying ourselves, but it’s a bit like unwrapping a gift. We’ve never seen the land snow free and in full bloom. As the snow recedes, each time we walk the trails, the scenery has changed, … [Read more…]
Yes, the title is overtly sexist… lets just get that admission out of the way. But I have sound reasoning for the title; If you read our first experience, you would have noticed my massive oversight when it came to creature comforts. My Katie was a trooper… she’s no snowflake, but the reality, is both she … [Read more…]
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I’m learning to manage my expectations. Somehow, at my age and life experience I’d expect to be better at this. However, as life usually does, it teaches me that with less expectation comes less disappointment. I headed up the advance team of one, and embarked Friday morning with the expectation that I would survey the … [Read more…]
SMEAC From Wikipedia: “The five paragraph order or five paragraph field order is a style of organizing information about a military situation for a unit in the field. It is an element of United States Army, United States Marine Corps and United States Navy Seabees of small unit tactics, and similar order styles are used … [Read more…]
On our ride home Sunday afternoon, we began to discuss the weekends events and the best way to share them here. If John were to write the story, it may sound a bit like something out of a Thursday evening sit-com. If Katie were to write, it may take the appearance of Wonder Woman meets … [Read more…]
It’s 12:21 AM. I’m tired. I got up at 5AM this morning, did a little design work, and planned to spend the better part of the day getting ready for Friday. As life would have it, somewhere around noon, I posed what I thought was an innocuous question to my friends on Facebook… hit post, and … [Read more…]
(A side note: All the rapid fire posts being made are actually based on content we originally posted to Facebook. Things will slow down once the site is fully updated.) Every so often on an early Sunday morning, Katie and I will sit on the couch with a hot cup of coffee, and turn … [Read more…]
When Katie and I started talking about this idea, we had the normal conversations a couple would expect to have. We talked of dreams and expectations, money and time, as well as the mundane details found in each of our roles. As we were approaching Christmas, we were saving as much money as we could … [Read more…]