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Author: Patricia Mikkelson

All Beings Sanctuary is the new name of the land that I plan on developing into a place where all beings can thrive. I am also helping my friend Barbara sell her land in hopes that a group that wants to start an animal sanctuary will buy it.
Watercolor of a person in a safety harness tied to a roof anchor, kneeling on a green metal roof with a cordless drill, while a helper steadies a tied-off ladder below on a clear day
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

How to Re-Screw a Metal Roof Yourself (Even a High One), Safely: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 6

Watercolor of rain falling on a log house in the Ozark hills, water running from gutters into rain barrels and a pipe leading down to a garden and a pond
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Catching the Rain: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 1

Six photos of water at the Living Springs Log House: the cave spring with a white Great Pyrenees, a cistern lid, an overflow pipe, a downspout, a culvert, and a wet area with willows
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Water, Water Everywhere: The Water Story of the Living Springs Log House

Watercolor of a diverse group of adults sitting in a circle of wooden chairs on a grassy hillside, sharing in a support meeting, surrounded by small vignettes of people eating a plant-based meal together, tending a vegetable garden, and visiting rescued goats and a pig
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Imagining Vegan Sober Living at the Living Springs Log House

A very steep, shaded wooded hillside with a low fieldstone retaining wall at its foot, woodland flowers and ferns growing along the wall and up the slope
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Caring for a Steep Hillside Behind Your House

Watercolor of a sloping autumn Ozark pasture with a sycamore, persimmon and cedar trees, sheep and goats grazing, a small shed and pond, and a father with a child on his shoulders watching from the fence
October 12, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

From Cedar Thicket to Sanctuary Pasture: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 2

Old-fashioned painting of three generations of a family picking apples and peaches together in a sunlit orchard
October 12, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

The Orchard the Town Grew Up Around

A pink and gold sunset over misty wooded hills, with a full, leafy sycamore tree standing on the lawn in front
October 12, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Videos from the Living Springs Log House

Painted illustration of a sunny lakeside park in the Ozark hills with a small dock and kayaks, families picnicking, and a young couple walking with their daughter and a golden retriever
October 12, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

The Lake, the Rutz Family, and a Good Kind of Boundary

Painted illustration of a sunny Ozark meadow where an older man hugs a cow, a young couple laughs with a goat, children run with a piglet, a teen pets a lamb, chickens wander and a golden retriever trots along
October 12, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Part 1: Helping Animals Helps People: Why the Supposed Trade-Off Is a False Choice

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