Up this week: Girly’s church weekend encounter, a Gift’s epiphany, finalizing bed”rooms”, non-pantry coming together, costumes and offgrid slacker moms, fall festivals and BabyGirl's new trick.1Girly had a great time at her weekend church camp getaway. So great in fact that we heard every detail, sometimes twice, for days after. Yet not one single picture. …
Insulation!!
This has been the day we have been dreaming about, it seems like forever. We finally scrounged up the cash to get it done. Sprayfoam is not the cheapest insulation available, but it is the best and the only way to go for a hot roof design. Being off grid, every dollar we spend now…
A Window Story
Do you see that?! God is good yall! Not like you didn’t already know that, but let me tell you the amazingness He pulled off today! We decided to take some money from the insulation fund to order the last window – it takes two weeks to get it and Thursday the lows are forecasted…
7 Quick Takes – 10-18-2013
Up this week: the last window, insulation good and bad, the Not Yard Sale, weekend church camp, a surprise from BabyGirl and going all old school.-1-I had intended on telling The Story of the New Window Because We Serve Such an Awesome God, but once it hit a full page I decided to publish it…
A Tiny House needs…
A Tiny Shed!! This is what has been taking all of our time the last few weeks. Building and filling this beauty up. Not bad for free materials we had laying around and a few days labor! Pallet wood for the framing, 24" on center, siding we were given, windows that were supposed to go…
Plumbing: Take 3… or 4…
You know that point when something has to be done – it’s well past time – and you simply don’t care how it gets done, or even if it done right, just so long as it is done and checked off the list. Yea, that. That’s where I am with this plumbing and electrical stuff. …
That unavoidable question
Life groups started up again. Coming with it the inevitable Intro Moment that I dread. I always hate that. What do I say? Let’s be honest, to say that our lives revolve around living in, while building, a tiny off grid house makes people react in strange ways. If I leave it out, it feels…
7 Quick Takes – 8/23/13
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…
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…
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,…
Together Simply 