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Aircrete!
CommunitiesSep 24, 2017

Aircrete!

I’m certain that most everyone reading this is familiar with using concrete for building material, there are various ways to go about using concrete, from...

Never buy grain for your chickens again!
CommunitiesSep 17, 2017

Never buy grain for your chickens again!

When I picture raising chickens, it’s always free range (of course!), I see a farmer walking through a flock of hungry chooks tossing handfuls of grain on...

30 days and it’s ready
CommunitiesSep 10, 2017

30 days and it’s ready

I had so much fun watching this couple condense a 30 day conversion into a short video, as I saw each part, I thought that’s just how I would want to do i...

Internet gone!
CommunitiesSep 7, 2017

Internet gone!

With all of the hurricanes and wildfires going on here in the USA, we haven’t been plagued by any of those tragedies, but we have had our own little hiccu...

Karen and her Casita
CommunitiesAug 27, 2017

Karen and her Casita

I spent some time today listening to Karen describe her life and how she ended up living in a small Casita travel trailer. I am wowed by her story, she has live...

Eclipse Monday
CommunitiesAug 20, 2017

Eclipse Monday

I suspect that unless you are living under a really big rock, you know about the solar eclipse that will be happening on Monday. It’s been all the rage on...

Living here vs there
CommunitiesAug 5, 2017

Living here vs there

When we left the big city, well more like the outskirts of the big city, we lived in a trailer park on the edge of Irving Texas, it felt more rural because righ...

Hitting the wall
CommunitiesJul 30, 2017

Hitting the wall

PB and I have lived off-grid for nearly 10 years now, by Christmas this year it will be 10 years. Have you ever done something for so long that you grow tired o...

Prosnowboarder’s golden ratio
CommunitiesJul 7, 2017

Prosnowboarder’s golden ratio

It took a little over 5 years for pro snowboarder Mike Basich to build his 225 square foot off-grid cabin, the work during the winter was the hardest because of...

Strictly for the Birds (book review)
SpiritJul 3, 2017

Strictly for the Birds (book review)

Birds are the constant companions to an off-grid life. Alone, in pairs, or most mesmerizingly in flocks, birds are a distraction for the eye, they are food, and...

Huge tiny home!
CommunitiesJul 2, 2017

Huge tiny home!

This has to be the biggest tiny home I’ve seen to date, it’s 37 feet long and 8.5 feet wide, 13.5 feet tall, it weighs in at 19,000 pounds. This is ...

Showering felt so good today!
CommunitiesJun 23, 2017

Showering felt so good today!

When one lives off-grid, you are generally your own fix it person, not always, but often. That is certainly true for us, we designed, built and maintain our off...