Oooops! Maple Valley Farms Review Mistake

While checking out a site called Maple Valley Farms, I must have gotten carried away and clicked on a link.  I was admiring this beautiful bed and breakfast with "Ethan Allen furnishings", that I thought was Maple Valley Farms, I must have made a horrible mistake.  Being the human being I am and capable of many mistakes, I reviewed this luxurious country bed and breakfast that I thought was Maple Valley Farms.  My apologies to Maple Valley Farms.  I don't even know if they have a bed and breakfast.  (I will have to continue to follow them to find out.)

In my mistake, I may have insulted Maple Valley Farms and how hard they have worked to get to where they are, and that was not my intention.

I still think the REAL Maple Valley Farms is beautiful.  The photos I looked at today show a beautiful, homey and cozy place.  Not the place I was looking at before at all and I apologize for my mistake.  I still love it and feel like it is a dream place.  Forty acres of farm, animals, fruits and vegetables.  From the canning jar glasses (use them myself to drink from) to the wood cook stove (my dream one day).  I love it!  My review doesn't change.

I love the idea of going off grid.  I have a dream of going off grid myself.  I was born and raised in the country, not the city.  However, I am woman enough to admit my mistakes and beg Maple Valley Farm's pardon.  *BLUSH*

For those who would like to laugh at my mistake, please feel free to click on this link.  Many thanks to KXJ for helping me see the error of my ways. 

Recycling - Reusing Pallets

A local siding company has a unique pallet that we recycle and use to make garden boxes and rabbit tractors and cages.  Please watch the video above for our uses. 

I wonder what other uses we could have for these pallets.  I would love to figure out how to build a chicken coop from them.

Japan

My heart truly goes out to the people of Japan.  I can't imagine the horror of being there right now and I feel helpless.  New reports are coming in of 140,000 nearby residents are being told to seal themselves in for protection from the radiation.  I hope these human beings had forethought to prepare for such a situation.  Even if there were time to go to the store to purchase necessary supplies such as duct tape, plastic, food, water, medicines, etc., would there even be enough for 140,000 people?

It sounds so calous to say let's use this as a learning experience when so much human suffering is taking place; but let's not let these people suffer in vain.  Learn from someone else's bad experience.  Be prepared.  How many times have we warned our children, but they had to learn for themselves.  Or how many times as youth did we learn our lessons the hard way.  I don't think I will ever look upon this world with the eyes of the innocent again.  I have awakened and I hope you will too.

Don't be a victim, be a survivor.  "Organize yourselves...prepare every needful thing."

http://www.fema.gov/

I don't know what else to say...but our hearts are with you our Japanese brothers and sisters.

Off Grid Living at Maple Valley Farms

I ran across a blog the other day called Maple Valley Farms.  Click here to see their site.  Beautiful website, beautiful home.  Ethen Allen furnishings, luxurious bed and breakfast.  A dream really.  I have enjoyed what I have read and watched on their Youtube channel. 

I think that being able to collaborate and learn from each other makes it easier for all of us, so I hope you will check them out.  Although purchasing a 40 acre farm with high-end furnishings and going off grid would be impossible for most of us who want the lifestyle, there are lessons we can still learn. 

I am not a wealthy person and this set-up is a dream that I would never be able to afford.  I think that most of us are trying to homestead while pinching pennies.  I know I am.  Making ends meet and still  being able to do a little at a time is what it is about for me.  I am thankful that Maple Valley Farms is allowing us to peek inside the dream.  I look forward to following them and learning from them.

Right now, Maple Valley Farms is having a giveaway sponsored by Lehman's.  Lehman's gave them some tattler lids to review and some to give away on their website.  Tattler lids are reusable and from what I have read, they seem to do the job.  So, go check out this dream place and enter to win some tattler lids.