Marblemount Homestead

So here's something amazing that happened: One of our long time blog readers (yes, that's you, Austin, and we love you!) hired our oldest son Kai to help her with landscaping work. Since Kai grew...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2021/06/working-with-my-sons-our-new-inspiring.html

Many mornings you can find me nose-deep in flowers, still half asleep and barefoot, but inhaling flower scents nonetheless. I don't need coffee to wake me up. All  need is dew on my ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2021/05/blooming-in-april.html

The other day was Earth Day. The first thing my husband and I ever bonded over was the Earth. 20 years ago we met shoveling cow manure at a dairy, and as we both worked side by side, scooping up ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-very-special-earth-day-hope-island.html

Okay, you guys, I gotta tell you something: If you are trying to eat better to improve your health but you don't want to skip the good stuff, I have an amazing recipe for you.  It comes from a...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2021/03/dairy-free-banana-cream-pie-with.html

 Hi there, happy Sunday! I want to tell you something really, really vulnerable, and it’s scary for me to share this here. But I feel like I NEED to share it. And I’m telling you not so th...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2021/02/this-is-very-vulnerable-and-scary-to.html

If you have followed us for a while, you know that we live and breathe for and in and with Nature. Nature is our spiritual renewal, our reason for being. If there's a day when I can't go outside,...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2021/02/finding-joy-in-nature.html

We now officially have two sons with driver's licences: they can drive without supervision. Steve and I are taking full advantage of this new miracle of our sons being able to do us favors for a ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2021/01/guided-to-safe-shore-by-our-sons.html

My sister Kerstin (whom we all call Pepe) is a gifted animal communicator. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have gotten over my grief when my beloved dog Chowder died.  She also helped me on ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-my-sister-can-help-your-pet-alive.html

This is one of the strangest Thanksgiving many of us have spent in our lives, don't you think? We usually get together with family and friends and have a huge party - but not this year. This ye...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/11/let-me-cheer-you-up.html

Many of you have wondered what is going on with us and our homestead. After I announced that we are selling Marblemount Homestead in July, I haven't published a single message here. I'm gonna m...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/11/incredible-news.html

When we moved to the Skagit Flats in March, we thought we would hold on to our homestead in the wilderness. So we rented it out to a great couple with kids, thinking this could be a win-win for a...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/07/we-are-selling-our-gorgeous-marblemount.html

Here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, with social upheaval and heartbreak, and yet... Our family is actively cultivating and holding on to as much positivity, joy, love and hope as we can. An...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/06/our-new-digs-from-not-much-to-this.html

Although it's hard to believe, some of you still don't realize that we moved. Yes, that's right... We don't live in the Marblemount wilderness anymore, but moved 55 miles West, right by the salt ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-from-scratch-heres-progress.html

As of today we have confirmed cases of Coronavirus in our county (Skagit) and we are encouraged to stay home and avoid the public.  In the face of what's happening right now worldwide and in our...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/03/you-feel-so-empowered-when-you-know-this.html

Steve and I sit on the sofa - the same sofa our daughter was born on 10 years ago, the same one that sags in the middle because her two older brothers have used it as a trampoline well before she...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/03/bittersweet.html

Are you worried about the Coronavirus? If you are, I want to share some powerful strategies with you to prepare and boost your immune system. But first, let me say this. I'm NOT freaked out abo...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-most-powerful-strategies-against.html

This is a difficult post to write. Promise me you won't freak out! After 18 years of pouring our sweat, blood and tears into our homestead, after spending all this time and effort to create our ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/02/dont-freak-out-were-moving-downriver.html

We made it into a new decade, people! Frankly, our family was dragging itself across the finish line over to 2020, with snotty noses and deep, lung-rattling coughs, but nevertheless, we are here!...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2020/01/and-happy-new-year-and-new-decade-to-you.html

So much has happened in the past months. Everyone is growing at an astounding, alarming, amazing rate. Our 16-year-old Kai moved out to attend the Running Start program at the community college.�...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2019/11/moving-at-alarming-rate.html

The past six weeks have been very, very hard. Our beloved dog Chowder died unexpectedly... I broke my tail bone... Our car got broken into and our computer and a bunch of cash stolen, including m...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2019/10/meet-our-new-baby-hazel.html

I have hesitated writing about this here on the blog, since I'm in such deep grief and shock. My sweet dog Chowder died unexpectedly three weeks ago.  There are no words.  I wrote about it ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2019/09/chowder-died-and-summer-left-us-too.html

Have you always dreamed of visiting Germany but are scared of the language barrier, lack of local knowledge, and all the logistics? Fear no more! I am a native German, and I would love to take ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2019/09/come-to-germany-with-us-week-long.html

You might think we just hiked, biked and sweated our way through the Alps when we visited Germany this summer. But no. We had plenty of city and town time, too, because why would you not if you ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2019/09/part-three-last-installment-of-our.html

I took so many pictures when we spent two weeks in Germany in July/August, there's no way I can fit them all into one blog post. So here is the second instalment of our trip. You can find part ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2019/08/part-two-our-visit-to-germany.html

I hadn't been back to my homeland Germany in eleven years. So this spring, after talking with my Dad on the telephone and realizing that everyone is getting older, and there is no way of telling ...

http://marblemounthomestead.blogspot.com/2019/08/our-visit-to-southern-germany-part-one.html