Happy New Year! Check out the video below for a summary of our 2021.

 Our annual Christmas get together in League City was back on this year. Here are some pictures: We had a special visit from Santa and his helper And his elf Here are the cousins in pitched game of Suspend. Suspend was a great gift from the White Elephant exchange. It's a little bit like Jenga except you're trying assemble this tower of wires without knocking anything down.

Jean and I took a week long trip to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park and the Davis Mountains State Park. Guadalupe Peak holds a special place in our hearts because a 11 1/2 years ago Jean agreed to marry me there. After over a decade could we still make it the 4.2 miles and up the 3000 feet of elevation from the parking lot to the highest point in Texas. Watch the video and find out!

I spent the first half of July in Montana attending an Appropriate Technology Course(ATC). Check out the video slideshow here:

The Parentals at Arches National Park With the cabin build and maintaining the building blog I've been neglecting this blog over the past year. To correct that oversight I'll try to post some belated highlights of 2019 that didn't involve construction. June was a particularly eventful month. In the first half of the month we were pushing hard to finish the roof and build the deck because in the second half of the month and a good portion of July Jean would be in the UK and I would be at Permaculture Design Course and Appropriate Technology Course in Montana. Here's a slideshow video of the month:

Chocolate covered strawberries that Jean made yesterday