Up this week: Total randomness! Back to blogging, busy week, we are the Ingalls (kinda), relationship building, a letter to loved ones, Pinterest and Happy Anniversary to us!- 1 -Blog, oh blog, how have I missed thee. It has been 12 looooong days since I have had the ability to write. I have concluded that…
Being Forced to a Tech Free Zone
First let me whine. Because everybody can relate to what I'm about to say. My phone is jacked. And by jacked, I mean it doesn't hold a signal for internet or for those occasional calls I have a phone for, calls are ended as soon as it rings and it takes forever to get it…
7 Quick Takes – 8/2/2013
Up this week: Teething Baby, Baltic Amber Necklaces, Summer Showers, Mysterious Rashes, Dead Batteries, New Batteries, Photo Shoot and Pioneer Hippies! - 1 - I’m in love! Not just with the baby. Although I am quite smitten with her! Her big blue eyes, big squishy cheeks, how she scrunches her nose when she laughs, how she knows who…
July Photo Dump
Cooking with the Sun (Oven)
We have been cooking with the Solar Oven for a few weeks now. Good time to give a review and how we did it!It only took Mr. about a day, 3 2x4's and a sheet of plywood to build this Sun Oven. The inside dimensions are 15"x22" - large enough that I can use my Pyrex…
Irony – TV and Life
Yall should find this as ironic as we do. Picture this - we are a little (or not so little) family building a house, in the woods, off grid. There are only a couple of tv shows we watch. One was Revolution. You remember that one. The world went black and they were trying to…
7 Quick Takes – 7/19/2013
Up this week: More thoughts on this off grid situation. It’s a lot more than I think most people realize. Or at least it was for me! - 1 -Yea, I know. I haven't written much the last few weeks. No, we haven't been doing anything spectacular like backpacking across Europe. Nor hiking the Appalachians. Yet,…
7 Quick Takes – 7/19/2013
Up this week: More thoughts on this off grid situation. It’s a lot more than I think most people realize. Or at least it was for me! – 1 – Yea, I know. I haven’t written much the last few weeks. No, we haven’t been doing anything spectacular like backpacking across Europe. Nor hiking the…
Bowling Adventures
For Lady's birthday, she wanted to go bowling. Bonus! The bowling alley has a kid's bowl free til Halloween special! Whoo hoo!! Mr. Littlest and Missy got to be big cheaters - with bumpers and the roller! Birthday Girl!!This tickles me! Mr. Littlest won Game 1, Missy won Game 2. Bou was the only one…
Happy 9th Birthday Lady!!
You have to excuse the crappy picture quality. It was dusk, in an off grid house, with a camera phone. 'Nuff said.Miss Lady turned 9! She requested Chili's, bowling and an oreo pie. I can't believe she is in her last year of single digits - where has the time gone?! Nana took her out…
Together Simply 