Big Changes in my life

I haven't been keeping this page up to date for a couple of reasons, the biggest being that I have been quite busy. Around the end of 2010, there were events of a legal nature that created both an opportunity and a serious liability for me.

First, a short explanation of my living arrangement through the end of 2010; I had divorced (separated since 08, divorced in '09) and as part of the property settlement had left the management and income of my small business in her hands with the expectation that she would maintain our investment to the best of her ability and keep our child attending his excellent school. By the summer of 2010 it was quite obvious that she had no intention of doing either of these things. Thanks to a well (though not well enough) thought out property settlement I was able to take the business, the house, and primary custody (we had always had a joint custody parenting plan)of our child. Since February of '11 I have been involved in pulling the business out of insolvency and getting MY life and my new family's lives settled into the new arrangement.

In October of '11, I remarried and we are all living in one rather large and very old house. The financial situation is different now that I have total control of all (formerly shared) assets and income from the business, but it is much the same in that I still have very little money for food at the end of the day. I am still feeding a family of four on a meager budget, plus I have my son with me more days per week so the cost of feeding him has gone up accordingly.

Another big change is that I am now living in a much more rural area. No more access to big city grocery shopping. But there is plenty of room for a vegetable garden and my sweetheart is busy getting that going this month. Hopefully I'll have some good advice and recipes for home-grown foods in the future. Next spring we have plans for a chicken coop for some laying hens, but we're still making up our minds about that, so don't count our chickens just yet.

I want to continue posting here because it is an excellent place for me to organize my recipes, and I hope that a few people will get a few decent tips from it. Honestly, almost nobody reads this, so it's mostly for me. I would like it if I had a greater readership, bit that's not something I'm going to lie awake at night hoping for.