Lo these many years ago, I had a blog that was focused almost entirely on my dogs and cats (nothing wrong with that, right?).  When my beloved boy, Duncan, suddenly passed away, I lost all interest in continuing.  A lot has changed since then — I’ve changed jobs twice and moved from a small lot in a city cul-de-sac to almost 10 acres on the outskirts of a tiny rural town.  I now have goats and chickens, along with the cat and dogs.  I have a garden, and I’m ever-so-slowly working towards making my little homestead more sustainable.  I crochet and sell the pieces I make, with plans to expand the types of crafts I make for sale.  My ultimate goal is to get away from having a regular 40-hours-per-week office job and earn money doing things I enjoy – preferably before I can retire 26 years from now.  A lot of this will be journaling for my own benefit, but I’m also hoping that someone will find something useful or interesting.  If nothing else, I can almost guarantee there will be lots of pictures of pretty dogs to see.  Hopefully, it won’t take me too long to get this fully up and running, but there’s a lot going on, so please be patient….