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The Prairie Homestead: Return to your roots • The Prairie Homestead
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I was one of those Breyer horse girls.
Surely you’ve known one. Maybe you were one.
My obsession ran deep. At my peak, I had hundreds of models. I showed them, traded them, painted them, and arranged them. It was intense, to say the least.
I was loading a beat-up old icebox into the back of ...
I’ve always considered myself pretty capable.
I can cook, bake, can, butcher chickens, run a restaurant, ride a horse, rope (sort of), drive a stick shift, haul a trailer, wor...
I thought the homesteading part of me had gone quiet. Maybe even died.
I suspected it was burnout. Or at least, I thought that’s what it was.
But I now realize there was something deeper at play… Less about tomatoes and chores and old routines, and more about...
I planted seeds before I knew where I was going.
I knew separation was likely. I knew life was shifting under my feet. I knew the future would probably look wildly different ...
I’m okay.
I’m saying that a lot lately.
Sometimes I say it to other people. Sometimes to myself.
Of course there is sadness and disorientation and all the feelings I wrote about l...