by John Pitney | Aug 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
**This is the 2nd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1*** Do you know how many gallons of rainwater you could catch off your roof in a year? Any idea how many glasses of water that would fill? One square foot of roof catches .623 gallons every time...
by John Pitney | Jul 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb had sprung up—-for God had not caused it to rain on the earth—and there wasn’t yet a human to till the ground…a mist went up from the earth and watered...
by John Pitney | Jun 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the year of weddings for our family. Nephew Tim and Amanda got it started May 20 in Boise followed by all four of ours, Joel & Laura, and Erin & Amy (forthcoming in September)…the ones who joined our clan by birth, the ones they choose to love and the...
by John Pitney | May 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
On April 29, with 200,000 others, I marched in the 2nd People’s Climate March in Washington DC to mark President Trump’s 100th day. It was something I couldn’t not do. We have a national environmental justice network emerging within the United Methodist denomination...
by John Pitney | Apr 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
I love this picture of Jessi and I holding the bags of nails we pulled from the boards of the house we deconstructed here. I always hated pulling nails. It was the bane of my young existence growing up on the farm. Our dad was the king of pullers, a hard enough act to...
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