Heartiness Approach Newsletter – July 6, 2018 – Thank your for joining us. George Washington’s Garden and our Land America has a lot of problems. We don’t watch the news anymore, but it is still our America. If you have ever been outside the states you know how free we are. George Washington …
This is my Country, land that I love….America, America We love America. We travel and meet people and love America. While managing an independent living community my husband and I shared our lives with hundreds of seniors. They shared their lives with us. Most of the men and some of the women were Veterans. One …
We Pledge Allegiance to the United States of America. Read More »
Heartiness Approach Newsletter – June 29, 2018 – Thank your for joining us. With an Oink Oink here and an Oink Oink There It was another adventure this week as we went to get our piglets for the first time. We have raised pigs before but they were kept at another person’s home …
What are Carbohydrates? If a person is going to eat the correct types of carbohydrates it is important to know what carbohydrates are. I am not talking about the chemical makeup of carbs. But when you eat something, is it a carb or a protein or what? If you are new to what is what …
Heartiness Approach Newsletter – June 22, 2018 – Thank your for joining us. Eating is a Choice with Consequences…Good or Bad Continually recommitting to eat right happens each time I run out the door without food and stop by a place to eat with the premise that I can find something healthy on …
Next week I am attending a day of girl’s camp. I am assigned to teach a class on mental and emotional wellness. When I worked with the senior population I noticed large amounts of people with anxiety and depression. It is not a lot different in our young people. What I quickly found is the …
Heartiness Approach Newsletter – June 15, 2018 – Thank your for joining us. Finding Joy in a Busy World by Rhenda Wilson Just as these poles for our Pergola stand straight and in a row, so are our lives becoming a straight line of action, and contentment. For over a week now we …
What is a Chicken Tractor? Often, we forget that not everyone is aware of all the terminology and topics so familiar in our day-to-day lives. When Rhenda told our son that we had built a chicken tractor for our new hens he asked, “A what?” What was obvious to us was foreign to him. He …
Heartiness Approach Newsletter – June 8, 2018 – Thank your for joining us. We Discussed the Stress in Our Lives This Week During our LIVE Video this week the subject of stress was brought up. Some of the remedies for stress include the following: 1. Get a good night’s sleep – Here are …
Going Back to Our Roots – Missouri holds a secret for us. It appears we have gone back to our roots by moving to Missouri. Jim and I research our past family history regularly. We are very interested in the genealogy of our family. We knew we have roots on both sides of our family …
Heartiness Approach Newsletter – June 1, 2018 – Thank your for joining us. Good health requires good digestion. The digestive system goes from the mouth to the anus. It is one continuous tube with pockets, inlets, and outlets. Everything we put in our mouth should have a purpose. It needs to either provides …
What is it like to realize you are in your 60s. Surely you were just a teenager then married and then with small children. But no. Those children are grown with children of their own. And you are in your 60s. But that is okay because you don’t feel like it. There was in time …
Heartiness Approach May 25th, 2018 Let’s Get Ridiculous! The only way to change your results is to change what you are doing. At 66 going on 67 and 64 going on 65, we are in better shape than we were in our fifties. And we are getting better. This did not happen because we continued to …
Lifestyle Changes help us Graduate to a higher level. Habits and Behaviors are intertwined and the goal is to change one area and then another and another. But wait, that sounds like we want you to be perfect and that will cause more stress in your life. We don’t expect perfection. We want you to …
Graduations Everywhere – Graduate to a Higher Lifestyle? Read More »
Heartiness Approach May 18th, 2018 Courage Against The Difficult Deciding to move was not easy but the deciding was easier than the moving. In Oregon, we lived on a beautiful property. Our growing of garden and animals was very successful. The main reason for our decision to move was a need for sustainability. …
This article was written by Rhenda when she turned 60. It is one of the first chapters in her book, Voices From My Heart. As a nurse working with people older than myself, I hear it time after time. I don’t belong in a place like this. These people are old. They are in wheel …
Heartiness Approach May 11th, 2018 Our Hearts are Filled with Gratitude for YOU As we sit on the porch and feel the breeze, hear the birds and see the land we own, our hearts are full of gratitude. How did we get this? For everyone who has followed our journey, they know it was …
We wrote this article while we were planning our Missouri homestead. These are questions to ask for any homestead. The rhythm of our homestead includes making time for animals. Animals are an intricate part of success. The chickens scratch to prepare the soil for the garden. Cows provide mob grazing to improve the grass quality. …
Heartiness Approach May 4th, 2018 What is Heartiness? Even though no one has asked we want to explain the word we have chosen for the lifestyle we have chosen. A little history first. When we decided that we needed to make big changes in how we lived, we searched for …
Am I too old to start a homestead at 60?This is what a subscriber ask Justin and Rebekah Rhodes. They referred them to us, Heartiness Approach. We said, No, No, and No. We never thought we would write an article that would be titled about 60 year olds. We never wanted to exclude anyone of …
Homesteading in your 60s.- A Different Kind of 60s Movement Read More »
Heartiness Approach April 27, 2018 Topsy Turvy Week with a Large Dose of Gratitude. This has been a tumble week for us. We have gone up and down and tumbled around. First of all apologies to you, our readers because we did not have the correct link to our weekly blog last week. …
Heartiness Approach April 20, 2018 We are Real… On one of our videos this week we discussed what it was like to meet our YouTube friends in person. It was so fun and delightful. At the close of each day, we would walk to our sleeping quarters and marvel at each other about …
Seeking our Connection Connected and happy. This week Jim is writing the blog while Rhenda completes the weekly newsletter. We are scheduled to have both ready for publication before bedtime. Moving has been challenging for our Youtube production and our blogs and a few days with limited to no Internet has limited our abilities. Today, …
