In May of 2011, Sister Jann McClary and her husband Tariq moved from the Washington DC metropolitan area to establish a new home in the mountains of Colorado.

What is most precious to you? Allah Subhanahu wa ta'alaa and then Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alyhi wa sallam? Good answer. They should be.

Admonishing us to be thrifty, not wasteful, and appreciative of what little we had? It made perfect sense for our grandmothers then, and it's right on target now. Besides, it's the sunnah.

In May of 2011, Sister Jann McClary and her husband Tariq moved from the Washington DC metropolitan area to establish a new home in the mountains of Colorado, building it from the ground up as part of their plan to become free of the spiritual and physical stress of modern urban life.

First, it was the mice. They were the advance guard, the scouts. 

Before the invention of the wheel, and hence, pulleys, people heaved and ho-ed all over the place: the pyramids in Egypt, Stonehenge in the U.K., the totem poles of the British Columbia Indians and the stone Olmec heads in Mexico, to name a few.