1 Wow that is strange to type out! Here when I was just getting used to it being 2013. I have finally figured out why it is so hard to get in the habit of writing the new year. In school, for 13 years, I had to write the date on every paper, 8 subjects a…
2014 Goal List
My focus for the year is to get the house finished and the homestead up and running. I had thought about making debt payoff the focus. While that is certainly a valid choice, I think this year would be best spent getting the sufficiency aspect rolling, making the debt payoff easier later in the year/in…
Driveway… again…
Remember this from the spring. Oh yea, then this.Yea, forget all of that. I was going to post pictures, but this:Just doesn't do it justice like this:Yea. That. Over 5" of rain in 24 hours... Good thing - our previous fixes did work, just temporarily. It's back to the drawing board we go.
Decorating an off grid house for Christmas
How does a tiny off grid house that’s still under construction decorate for the holidays you ask? I am not entirely sure but am determined to figure it out! So on a cold and foggy day, we kicked up the fire and started. BTW - that picture above was at 3pm when it finally started…
Ice Ice Baby
We did it! We made it through our first off grid ice storm rather smashingly! Even given the curves Murphy tried to throw at us. First off, thank God the heater started working again. Not sure what happened, why it suddenly acted up or why it suddenly started again. We are exchanging it regardless when…
Meal Planning
I had this wonderful post planned for today for the sun oven… however I didn’t get the revamp finished and then had a slight glitch… I broke the glass. Oops. Now Mr. isn’t alone in making this an expensive DIY solar oven!Instead, let’s talk about meals! This has been a pain for me to figure…
Cooking: The Rocket Stove
Since we are asked all the time how we do things, I decided to go ahead and do a more detailed mini-series to explain some of them. If there’s something you’re curious about, leave a comment! It’s become so life now that I don’t think about how it’s perhaps “not exactly normal”. We do run…
Happy 1st Birthday BabyGirl
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…
Together Simply 