It’s been a long time since our last post. You would think, it having been winter and all, that there would be more time for posting…or at least that updating the farmstead blog would be a higher priority. Neither turned-out to be the case.
I saw a bumper-sticker the other day. Generally obnoxious substitutes for meaningful expression, this particular sticker was equal parts amusing and thought-provoking: “No airbags: We die like real men.” For once, a sentiment well-put.
So here’s the ‘no-airbags’ honest truth. This effort is going to be different than other efforts one finds around the inter-webs. We do not receive commission or gratuity for our linked content: All links are provided for personal enrichment…Take ‘em or leave ‘em. We do not make a living as ‘influencers’. We don’t ‘advertise’ for remuneration: Any mention of friends and associates are meant by way of gratitude and to share their good services with those of you in the locality. Finally, we won’t be posting relentlessly, bombarding you with content: Lord knows, there is enough of it (good, bad…mostly bad…and indifferent) out there. If one’s family is to actually be “the first school of social virtues”(JPII), one has to actually live family life. Sometimes that means ‘sharing’ less with the community writ-large.
If all the above means that our farmstead effort is doomed to an early demise, so be it: Let it be honest and unencumbered.
Castricum Ranch 