Year 51, and the 50K That Didn’t Happen
I turned 51 without training for the 50K I promised myself. Here’s what I did instead.
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Looking Back at 2025: Retirement, Travel & Homestead Life
Looking back, 2025 was a pretty full year. There were big life changes, trips, bowling, attempts to get back into running, plenty happening around the homestead, and more little moments than I could possibly give their own blog posts. Some of the bigger stories already have their own posts or videos, but I wanted to…
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I Wasn’t Expecting to Retire at 49
I wasn’t expecting to retire at 49. Actually, technically, I’m not retired yet. That’s probably the first thing I should explain. I accepted the deferred resignation offer that was announced for federal employees in January, but my actual retirement isn’t scheduled to happen until the end of the year. In the meantime, I’m on administrative…
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2024: Another Full Year
As I look back through my photos from 2024, I keep thinking the same thing I did when I looked back at 2023: this was a full year. Some of it made it into videos. A lot of it didn’t. And while I had every intention of keeping up with the blog, the farm, work,…
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2023: A Full Year, and Everything In Between
It’s the first week of 2024, and as I look back through my photos, I keep thinking the same thing: this was a full year. Back in July, I wrote about how the YouTube channel and the farm were going. Honestly, keeping the channel going takes more time than I expected — filming, editing, and…
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Halfway Through 2023: How the YouTube Channel (and the Farm) Is Going
We’re halfway through 2023, and if you’ve been following along on the GFY Farms YouTube channel more than here on the blog lately, that’s not by accident. Most of what’s happening with me is on the farm, so it’s showing up there first. But I wanted to take a minute to catch the blog up…
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Fall, Florida & Everything In Between
This one’s a little late. Between the garden, the chickens, and everything else, I never got around to writing about the rest of the fall—and then the holidays happened, and then we somehow started a YouTube channel. So here’s the catch-up, a little after the fact. A Lot Has Been Happening The garden and the…
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When the Garden Gives You More Than You Can Eat
When I planted a garden this year at Chris’ place, I was picturing fresh tomatoes off the vine, cucumbers for snacking, maybe enough to share a few bags with the neighbors. What I didn’t think through was what happens when everything decides to be ready at the same time. This isn’t my first time canning….
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September: Learning to Make More From What I Have
September has been a little bit of everything. A little cooking. A little experimenting. A little time outside. And a lot of figuring out things I enjoy doing just because I enjoy doing them. Preserving Summer One of the things I’ve been having fun with lately is learning how to make food last longer. This…
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Finding Joy Close to Home
After a few weeks of traveling, August was a little quieter. No big road trips. No long stretches of highway. Just time at home, enjoying the things that make everyday life good. And honestly, it was exactly what I needed. Back in the Kitchen One thing I realized after all the traveling is how much…
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Key West, Family, and Another Adventure on the Road
After months of staying close to home, it felt good to finally put some miles behind me again. The RV was ready. Bandit was ready. And on July 3rd, we loaded up and headed south. But before we really started the adventure, there was an important stop first — spending the Fourth of July with…
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Giving My RV a Fresh Start
The RV has always been one of my favorite ways to explore. It has taken me on road trips, weekend adventures, and more memories than I ever expected when I first bought it. But after years of use, it was starting to show some wear. Especially the ceiling. Finding the Problem I had noticed some…
