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…
Could busy hands be key
It’s interesting, when I started on this path of simplicity, knowing somehow that by having less we would find more, I didn’t understand the what or the how. I knew slowing down, eliminating or reducing the distractions was key. I can’t say how many times in our Powered Big House I deemed days or weeks…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Together Simply 