It is so hard to believe it’s been a year! If you ever question if things will change, just have another baby, it will become overwhelmingly apparent how much change happens in a year! We are so blessed! This first cake is always bitter sweet for me. Up until this 1st birthday cake, the children…
7 Quick Takes – 10-25-2013
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. …
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…
7 Quick Takes – 10-11-2013
Up this week: Issues with scheduled posts, drowning in the chaos of toys and clothes for our Downsizing Sale, children discover light drawing with DSLR, a bone to pick with all your grid people, a duel use purchase and a random photo dump.-1-You know, this whole “schedule blog post” feature is pretty awesome! When you…
From Scorpions to Project 33
I can hear you now – what in the world do scorpions have to do with Project 33 you crazy woman. Hang on, you’ll see the logic. We have killed 4 scorpions in the last couple of weeks. And by “we” I mean Bou and Mr while I stood away holding littles, shaking and hollerin…
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 – 6/29/2013
Up this week: Could it be... Electricity?!, sweet trees, cheater cooking while staying cool and a note to just jump.- 1 -Oh Lawdy lawdy, what a ride it has been, this power thing. Or lack of, for better understanding. Off grid, generator issues galore, making do, getting by and thriving still. The electric company…
A country mouse I am not
I am not a country mouse. I would like to state that. Again. In case you haven't been around long enough to hear me say it once... or twice. And if you are squeamish, I would suggest skipping this post. The last 24 hours was one of THOSE Days. Let me set the scene. It…
Together Simply 