How long have you been homesteading? Three years?

I've lived through Homestead Mania a dozen times at least. I was busting ass on a "real farm" (as opposed to a YouTube farm) as kid before the first issue of Mother Earth was published. I watched the hippie movement, including commune farms all all that crap, sprout and then die... One of the most pathetic times I witnessed was Y2K... Remember that? A flood of people moved out into the country including all around my farm. Starry eyed homesteaders they were. And not even one made it past the three year mark before the weeds took over. Yeah, you spoke of divorce and broken families. Seen that myself. Those folks would have been better off keeping their jobs, savings and 401 k... Some would be millionaires right now if they just kept their 401k...

Look, bud, I'm not trying to throw ice-water on your party, but you got the "attitude" thing ass backwards... It's OK to be positive, but a healthy dose of negativity keeps people grounded in reality. It's like a car battery. You both positive and negative to make it work...

Congrats on the three year mark, you made it further than most... Personally, I'm glad I'm retired and living near a city were I can take my 92 year old father to some of the best doctors in the world... They saved his life a few years back.... Something a country hospital would have never been able to do... Think about that next time you let your dad climb up on the roof... I like eating out. I like not smelling like cow shit everyday. I like to hunt, fish and travel without having to worry about who's gonna milk 30 or 40 cows, or who's gonna bust ass in the garden.

Keep it real, folks, farming is dangerous work. Look at the statistics .. In fact, the last time I checked farming posed a greater danger of bodily injury or death than police work... And, yeah, I knew more than a few examples of good men and women who are now pushing up posies because farm life took its toll...

Good luck, I really mean that, and God's speed.