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Video: Check out this fantastic $10K tiny house

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$10,000 Tiny House

Regular readers of this blog know I’m fascinated by the many types and styles of tiny houses that dot the landscape nowadays.

There are countless factory-built ‘cookie cutter’ style tiny houses out there, but the ones I like best are the self-designed and self-built tiny homes that so many people are building these days.

The video I’m featuring today is a quick virtual tour of a tiny house in Australia that was built for about $10,000 AUD (which currently equates to less than $7,000 US).  [Read more…]

Do you know the differences between a graveyard and a cemetery?

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A church and its associated graveyard

Living (and loving) Life

Most folks use the terms cemetery and graveyard interchangeably, but did you know they are actually very different things?

Yes, they are both plots of ground where people are laid to rest after they pass on, but there are several very important differences between the two…  [Read more…]

Would you travel the world’s most dangerous road?

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Living (and loving) Life

I’ve done a lot of traveling in my time on planet Earth, and I’ve either driven or ridden on some roads that I hope I never have to travel down again.

If you’re the adventurous type you might want to give the Himalayan mountain road featured in this video a try.

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Video: Sensitive Souls perform “Keep on the Sunny Side”

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A while back I shared this video featuring the Austrian duo Sensitive Souls singing the Carter Family classic “Wildwood Flower”.

That performance really resonated with lots of folks, and it’s easy to understand why.

Janine and Andi have amazing voices and they did an outstanding job on one of the most beautiful songs ever written, especially considering the fact that English isn’t their native language.  [Read more…]