Archive for December, 2010
Flora Marie Quinn
Sunday, December 26th, 2010My grandmother died last Sunday and the funeral was this past Thursday. She was 85 years old and had been in an out of a nursing home for the past six years or so. I miss her and I’m sad that she died, but she was pretty miserable these past few years and so really, [...]
homesteaddin’
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010Yesterday I chopped wood for the first time in my life. A friend came over and showed me how to use a maul, which is a tool for splitting wood. It’s super heavy and I’m such a klutz that I hit the top of my foot. Fortunately I didn’t break it. After about 30 minutes [...]
winter is here
Monday, December 6th, 2010Life has been busy over the last month or so. Work at KFTC has picked up again. We’ve begun to organize support for a safe restroom campaign in Lexington and we’ve formed an economic justice work team to start collecting stories from folks who are struggling with meeting their basic needs (food, housing, utilities etc.). [...]