Roots, Rocks & Feathers
Description
This book is a story of the author and her husband moving to the Blue Ridge mountains in mid-life to begin a homestead. It describes the challenges, surprises, the twists and turns as well as the physical dangers over a 23 year period. In these 100 pages, Cynthia vividly describes the panoramic landscapes, interactions with the local wildlife and the sheer will to persevere in the face of her husband's declining as well as serious injury to herself. The homestead life tests their resolve at every turn, bringing up raw emotion and doubt, tests their fortitude, alternating sheer joy and debilitating pain. Did they stay? Read Roots, Rocks & Feathers and find out!
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Cynthia and her husband have dedicated themselves to frugal living, purposeful living, anti-consumerism, self-sufficiency and living peacefully and free. Their modest Blue Ridge mountain home is surrounded by tall peaks in a rural community. They live with their many chickens and a blind cat named Finn. Cynthia makes quilt sand crochets in her spare time.
