They came with frank curiosity expecting to see the hippies on their commune but also with a measure of sincere neighborliness, ready to accept us as regular people, wanting to admire our homesteading effort and to offer advice.
Instead of punishing the banks that sabotaged the American ideal of a nation of stakeholders by "securitizing" our homesteads into poker chips to be gambled away in the Wall Street casino, Barack Obama now proposes to turn over the entire mortgage industry to those same banks.
We would stay away from our homesteads for long stretches, leaving our women and children to fend for themselves".
A valuable resource "Having the borehole close to our homesteads is most useful especially during the dry season," says a village leader.
"In the past while we were in our homesteads a boy or girl could have her own garden…but now because of the camp and insecurity, which limits movement to the gardens, the girls have become lazy".
Chuck the tree has made his presence mightily felt as well, topping 30 feet now, and rising higher than our little homestead.
We're a long way from our Canadian homestead of Yellowknife, where it's currently -31 and shitty, so I don't miss it yet, but I might soon, depending on how far down this asphalt lined rabbit hole we go.
As we drive up towards the main homestead our driver slows down and points out the nocturnal wildlife lining the road.
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