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Scotland’s multiple off-grid opportunities
CommunitiesJun 26, 2019

Scotland’s multiple off-grid opportunities

The sparkling glens and mountains of Scotland boasts a wide choice of off-grid holiday accommodation and if you fall in love with the lifestyle there are many o...

Go Your Own Way
SpiritFeb 14, 2019

Go Your Own Way

Many of us have bellowed ‘Go your own way!’ at the top of our lungs when listening to Fleetwood Mac, but it’s in that pause that we imagine just what going our ...

It doesn’t feel like a sacrifice
CommunitiesJan 30, 2018

It doesn’t feel like a sacrifice

After finishing school, Jocelyn and Jarvis had $96,000 of debt from student loans, credit cards, and buying a small rural property. This is the story of how the...

Elk encounter 3 years later
CommunitiesJan 8, 2018

Elk encounter 3 years later

  Those who have followed me for a few years should remember my elk encounter from about three years ago, it did quite a bit of damage, but PB was able to ...

10 years later…
CommunitiesDec 31, 2017

10 years later…

It was 10 years ago on December 22 when PB and I (and our little chihuahua Pekoe) pulled up on our property, it was 3:30 in the morning, it was 14 degrees F, th...

East Jesus
CommunitiesDec 19, 2017

East Jesus

I think most everyone is familiar with “Slab City”, an abandoned military base in the Sonoran desert in California. This desolate place is a favored...

A day in the emergency room
CommunitiesDec 10, 2017

A day in the emergency room

I spent today in the emergency room, not for me, but for a friend. I had gone to church and found out my friend had slipped on ice on her way out and broke one ...

Privacy? They are listening
CommunitiesNov 30, 2017

Privacy? They are listening

I grew up in the time when cable TV boxes were supposed to have a camera or at the very least a microphone inside so they could see (or hear) what goes on insid...

Fantasy cottage by the sea
CommunitiesNov 2, 2017

Fantasy cottage by the sea

Do you remember the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel? Well, if they had a house today, this would be it! Located next to the ocean in Vancouver BC, this 600 square ...

Are you nuts? When can we come visit?
CommunitiesOct 14, 2017

Are you nuts? When can we come visit?

Friends, family, most of us have them, and for most of us they play an integral part of our lives and decisions we make. Making the decision to completely chang...

Essential Crafter
CommunitiesOct 12, 2017

Essential Crafter

There was a time when if you wanted to learn how to do something, especially a trade, you found the person with the most knowledge and you apprenticed under the...

Confessions of a off-grid granny
CommunitiesOct 1, 2017

Confessions of a off-grid granny

I cannot believe it’s October already, the days are still warm but the evenings and nights are getting cooler, it’s almost sweater weather! I am so ...