Apocalyptic Homesteading (Day 177-182 )

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Hello Everyone!

A brief introduction: Hi I am Jacob.

TL;DR: There is no tl;dr because you should have more patience and attention span than a gnat on a high wind.

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Apocalyptic Homesteading Day 177-182!

Peculiar Dreams, Light Duty Days, Interior Cabin Work, Corn Everywhere, Solar Shack Improvements & A Painting Blitz

It is rather late in the morning here and I am slowly working towards getting myself in motion for the day. I woke up at my usual time but decided that I should let myself drift off to sleep again to see how this dream that I was having would turn out. Oddly enough I woke up several times after that and each time I would let myself fall back asleep and like some lurching old projector reel the dream would pick up more or less where I had left off dreaming it a few moments before. Dreams continuing is not all that uncommon for me but this one kept seeming to pick up a few moments before where I had previously stopped at and I would have this really weird deja-vu as things that I had already dreamed played out again. Occasionally when this happens I can make different choices in the dream (because I know the outcome) but this time I just 'went through the motions' (doing nothing differently) until the dream sequence shifted to new events that I had not yet dreamed of.

As far as dreams go it was a bit more hectic than what I have gotten accustomed to the last few years but it was not all that horrific or anything like that even though it was stressful. In the dream I had a construction job working at some place that used to be farmland but due to some kind of tectonic upheaval (or something just as effective) it was now mostly rugged mountains with a valley between them and at the rear of the valley (the furthest point from where I lived at the valley's entrance) there was a sprawling settlement of people living in all these rather cookie-cutter houses that needed a bunch of repairs because of how shoddily they had originally been built. I was actually working for a contractor (who seemed vaguely familiar but I have no idea who they were) and had agreed to make repairs for a roof that sorely needed attention to stop it from leaking but every time I started doing the repairs I would need some tool or material that I did not have and would have to stop what I was doing and go find it. The weird part is that during these stopping points I would wake up while traveling to retrieve whatever was needed and then drift back to sleep again.

During the last phase of the dream something had occurred while I was absent the dream (because I had woken up) and when I returned to sleep the sequence did not 'rewind' like it did before but instead I found it lurching to life around me as I looked around my little domicile at the valley's entrance. It is weird the things that I remember sometimes because I kept looking out a window and seeing this massive sheered off telephone/electric pole jutting from a small rock strewn hill. The pole had once been the source of electricity for the area but had been broken so long ago that no one recalled it being functional and it seemed to be a looming reminder of some bygone era that had since long passed and no one really knew the full story of.

When the dream lurched back to life my little domicile was getting swarmed by all these uniformed authoritarian folks who were accusing me of doing 'something' that I am still unclear of what in the actual fuck it was and me trying to explain to these folks in the dream that I could not have done it because I had been awake did not go over all that well at all. They were kind of like an invading force in the little valley and I just happened to be the first person that they came across when entering it so I bore the brunt of their harassment. I got so damn defensive of myself that I barely took notice when they all turned their attention from me and swarmed into the valley below leaving me alone at their backs as they moved menacingly onward.

It took a few moments for my mind (in the dream) to piece together that I had just been bamboozled and when I did realize it I was overcome with this sense of determination to protect the other folks in the valley from what I could only surmise as some kind of ill intent by these uniformed invaders. So, I began rifling through my gear in the house and assembling a sort of arsenal of tools to go after them with which may or may not have been sufficient for the job given how armed with actual weapons the invaders were. Knowing that I was woefully outmatched did not phase me in the least and oddly enough I packed the pseudo-arsenal as well as all the tools (and materials) that I would need to finish that roof job that I had been working on previously. It makes me chuckle to think of it now but I was like: I am going to go whoop all their asses and finish that damned roofing job when I am done! In the dream my intent was much more complex than that but I think that conveys my sentiment well enough. Just as I headed out the door of my little domicile the dream took on this watery quality and seemed to slowly dissolve before me as I woke for the final time.

Anyway, I dunno if there is anything worthwhile in all of that jazz but something compelled me to write about it as soon as I woke up, so here I am clacking away at the keyboard as the sun rises ever higher in the sky. Having taken the last two days off from doing construction projects I am feeling rather intent upon diving back into stuff today and getting the cabin project further towards completion. Mainly I think that I am going to focus on getting the insulation installed on the first floor and perhaps even getting the interior sheathing installed over the insulation. There is a bunch of blocking that will need to be installed so that I have plenty of nailers for the ceiling's sheathing but that should be pretty easy to do with the scraps that I have. There are also a few unfinished things with the framing in the walls where I need to add a few studs and make some boxed chases for the utilities.

I gotta say that I am not really all that excited to do it because I only have vague ideas about how I am going to do the chases and still have yet to figure out some details for the air-conditioner unit because we are opting to mount it directly in the wall instead of in a second window. I guess that is all dependent upon the dimensions of the air-conditioner and not yet having it to measure I dunno what the heck to do. I may wind up just framing in a large box in the wall and making a removable panel for it on the interior so that I can add more framing later and leave the external sheathing uncut until I get the unit and am ready to install it. There is a lot of details that will have to be attended to with the air-conditioner installation but I think that I have a few good ideas of how to do it in a way that does not leave me with condensation dripping down the wall. Okay, now I am just procrastinating getting on with my day so I should pause this entry for now and get to it outdoors.

So, here we are again on yet another morning and I am once again in slow motion and making an equally slow start to my day as I sip my espresso while the fog of sleep gradually fades. I have a bunch of minor aches left over from the previous day's exertions but nothing all that bad aside from feeling stiff all over. A little stretching will assuredly fix that but for now I am content to sit here brooding over my warm beverage while clacking away on the keyboard. Today is almost a repeat of yesterday morning because I sort of just want to sit here writing instead of beginning my work day outside.

I dove back into working on the cabin with real gusto yesterday after doing some hiking and planting a few more patches of sweet corn in some sunny areas around the property. I mainly focused on getting the ceiling insulated and sheathed but after that I had to remove almost everything from the first floor of the cabin so that I could do the same to one of the long walls. It was a bit of a cluster-cuss because of how many tools and fasteners that I had stored in the cabin and because of all that OSB that I stacked inside of it and because of how I had placed cinder-blocks atop it all to flatten them back out. Thankfully the flattening process worked well and I did not have to struggle with using a bunch of warped material for the wall sheathing but it was a hassle nonetheless because I had to carry each sheet of OSB outside to cut it and then carry it back inside to install it which was tedious and tiring.

By the end of the day I had gotten both the ceiling and one wall finished but in the process I wound up covered in tiny pieces of fiberglass insulation. Thankfully I had anticipated this happening and had filled my outdoor tub at the beginning of the day so that it would not be ice cold (but still cold enough) when I plunged into it at the end of the day to wash all the debris off me without it getting in my pores like it would with a hot bath. Installing that kind of insulation does not bother me or anything but in the small space of the cabin all the cutting that I did on the insulation resulted in lots of small particles of it floating around and with how much I was sweating it is surprising that I did not come away from it all itching like crazy.

I do not know if it was because of the itchy insulation, the heat, both or my general weariness (or just being fed up) with camping but damn I kept getting annoyed as I was working and did way more cussing along the way than I usually do. Suffice it to say that my usual tactic of 'zen carpentry' was nowhere to be found and I lost my patience in minor ways several times along the way. I guess that it was just 'one of those days' and although I should have just stopped and taken a nap I decided to just keep plugging along trying to get as much done as possible which of course just compounded my frustration and left me so tired at the end of the day that once I did finally take a nap I barely woke up in time to get all the critters fed before dark. One thing is for sure and that is that I was frigging moody and was glad when the day had ended.

Anyway, I have been pushing myself for so long now that I know that I am well beyond the point where I need to take an extended break from doing stuff but as of now I have quite the workload ahead of me before I can do that so I have to just keep moving forward and not let it all get to me. The thing is that my generally healthy balance of work and play is so frigging skewed at this point that all I see is work and the 'play' part of things seems like a distant goal that I never quite reach. For now I do not have a bunch of aggravation over that fact but I can assuredly tell that it is creeping in around the edges and slowly infringing upon my general good mood. I am always picturing some vague point in the future where I have the bulk of the hard work done and can relax a bit but lately that keeps getting harder and harder to picture because the long list of stuff to do... is well... so damned long!

I am sure that I have some unreasonable expectations of myself in regards to what I can achieve in a given period of time and although I often temper that sentiment with pragmatism... there is this underlying feeling that I need to keep giving things my 'all' and generally not fuck around when it comes to getting myself (and eventually my little area) all sorted out. Of course it is more than that because I want to get so much food planted, so much solar power setup, so many water systems in place and so forth and so on. Basically I want to once again become as self-reliant as I possibly can and not have all this stuff nagging at me to be done before more goods become unavailable or more sky-rocketing prices (like those of lumber) kick in and things in this country grow more unstable. Of course I am not reacting to the current scenario as much as I am simply trying to get back to where I do not have to rely on the grid or feel stressed that I am not prepared enough for what might be coming down the proverbial pipe.

I still scoff at those who profess to be waiting for things to get bad and still think that anyone not doing everything that they can to insulate themselves now will invariably be facing some tough choices in the future. I know it sounds like a bunch of 'fear uncertainty and doubt' but damn all I have to do is visit a grocery store to see that the tenuous thread that holds things together is not just fraying but unraveling and perhaps about to snap. Things happen gradually though and for those waiting for some 'big sign of the times' that things have gone 'from bad to worse' are just doing so in an effort to cling to a past that... well is now the past.

The world has undoubtedly moved on from where it was before (not that it was all that awesome before or anything) and I think that romanticizing the past (or even some fantasy-laden future) is a far cry from embracing the present and seeing things as they really are to one degree or another. I am not a great judge of all that or anything but it seems like folks are more concerned with socializing, partying and eating out than they are with actually changing the course of their own life in such a way that they will be insulated from shortages, failures in infrastructure and so forth and so on. Hey, I totally get it that no one really wants to look into the 'maw of madness' that potentially lays ahead but hell it seems like folks are willingly diving headfirst into it with wild abandon in the pursuit of a bunch of frivolous shit that does not matter... or at least should not matter.

Okay, I better get to wrapping this up for now and not get too far off on that particular tangent. I did not intend to go down that particular rabbit warren but having spelled it out I think that a big part of the unease that I feel in the back of my mind is rooted in the direction that I see the world heading towards. It is probably best if I just continue on the track that I am on and be happy for the direction that I myself am heading towards and just take it all as yet another reason why I like to isolate myself from folks and their frivolous behavior. I mean really there just is not much that I can do besides what I am already doing and no amount of 'wording things out' (with writing) is going to change the course of things and everything will be whatever the heck it is going to be with or without my views, opinions or insights.

What can be changed via those things is my own life and well... I have been doing that for so long now that I have to occasionally take a step back and look at where I was a few years back when I began documenting things and where I am now which is without a doubt a much better place mentally, emotionally and physically so go figure. I guess that improving my life has gone rather well and overall I like where it has all lead me.

Alright, it is a new day and I am feeling a bit less out of sorts than I was yesterday. I guess I have to just take the 'highs and lows' as they come and not let it influence me too much one way or another lest it skew my morale to the point that I have to either tamp it down so that over-enthusiasm does not lead to burnout or bolster it up so that I can avoid slipping into being discontent. It is always going to be a balancing act between those extremes and I guess that as long as things are not hectic or stressing me out that I am okay with doing it if it means that my morale remains intact and my overall attitude remains if not a 'good' one then at least a pragmatic one.

All that jazz aside. I got most of the interior walls of the cabin insulated and sheathed yesterday. It was a really long day without any naps which is probably why I slept in until a little after dawn today and am getting off to such a slow start this morning. The only wall that is now unfinished is one half of the rear wall where the air conditioner is going to be installed and lacking knowing the rough opening size for the unit it might be a few days before I can get it finished. Like I mentioned before I might wind up framing in a large opening that I can later make smaller if need be and get the wall finished without knowing the unit's size but I kind of dislike that idea because it will make the interior sheathing a piecemeal job instead of just one sheet of OSB which is what we are using as the interior wall covering.

It has been a bit of a shuffle each day as I work on the cabin's interior because everything that I have stored in there invariably gets in the way. A few days ago I used my wagon to put most of the tools and fasteners in and have been pulling it back and forth between the shop tent and the cabin just to avoid having to move it all in and out of the cabin each day so that I can work in there. Between the shelving unit, the lumber, the plywood, the scraps of plywood and stuff like the brooms, the step stool and the levels things get a bit awkward working in the small space of the cabin and I constantly find myself shuffling stuff around at the beginning and end of each day. I also clean up the job site each day to avoid things getting too messy but yesterday I spent the last hour or so of the workday doing more clean up than usual just because I was feeling like everything was becoming too much of a mess. Most of the mess was contained in the solar shack where I kept piling construction trash into a bag that was too small for it and had been kind of tossing all the scrap lumber willy-nilly as I tackled doing the interior of the cabin so it was nice to get that all cleaned up and make the space more useful.

I just remembered that yesterday morning (right after I finished writing) I grabbed a pack of sweet corn seed and went for a hike looking for some sunny spots to plant them in away from the shelter site. I wound up planting the entire pack of corn in three different areas and one of those areas was one that I planted with silage corn super early in the year but only had a single corn plant make it through those late cold snaps that we had here. The largest new patch that I planted is on a sloped area that gets good sun, and gets a decent amount of water runoff but the topsoil is really thin and right below it is some very hard packed clay so I do not know how well it will grow there but if it does do well then it will probably do really well. The topsoil being so poor there got me to thinking about terracing that slope and back-filling it with good top-soil but that is one of those future projects that would be much easier to do with a tractor and a dump-truck load of soil instead of doing it by hand and using bags of soil. In other words it is a pretty big area and one that might be worth investing time and resources into to make a big garden.

Dang, it is another morning and yup I am once again in slow motion and not diving right into doing stuff outdoors with the rising of the sun. I went at stuff pretty hard yesterday and tweaked my back a little (which thankfully did not start bothering me until the very end of the day) so today I am going to keep things in the 'light duty' realm and not push myself too hard which has inadvertently (or directly) lead me to having some time this morning to do some writing. My back is not causing me a bunch of pain or anything but it is uncomfortable to move around and all the muscles are very tight. Soaking in a hot bath last night before dark probably helped avoid a really uncomfortable evening and fortunately the little twinges did not keep me from getting plenty of rest.

Lets see here... yesterday morning I finally got tired of the solar shack not having a floor installed and decided to dive into the project with some real gusto to see just how far along I could get it and I wound up not only getting the floor installed but also closing in two and a half more of the building's walls. The rear wall turned out pretty good and I closed the bottom half of it in with a sheet of zip-board and created another vinyl window in the top half of it. The other wall (that I had partially finished several weeks ago) also got some zip-board installed along with some vinyl to create windows for it as well. I am not super happy with the way that wall came out because the vinyl has some crinkles in it that I did not notice until much later in the day when I was too fatigued to do anything about them. The wind kept gusting when I was installing the vinyl and although the majority of it looks good... I will probably undo a bunch of the staples and try to fix the crinkles so they do not nag at me. On the remaining wall (the one where the entrance will be) I used a partial sheet of zip-board to close it in and left the top open so that I can install an actual window so that the place gets some fresh air inside of it aside from what it gets through the rafters.

Aside from all of that jazz, I cleaned up a bunch of the 'waste' construction materials that had once again piled up and even carried the long material that I had been using for scaffolding (on the right side of the cabin) out of the dog yard and got it stored and covered near the shop tent in the area that has more or less been devoted to lumber storage for the last many months. Since that damned rat was once again making a nest upon the sheet goods that I had stored there I moved the one remaining piece (the other one went on the solar shack wall) into the cabin to keep it clean and to stop it from getting warped. Honestly the 'material management' has been a hassle the whole time and hopefully I can eventually build something to store it all in so that it is not such a hassle. Considering that most of the lumber is soaking wet when we get it and I am not an impatient twit that thinks building with green wood is okay, I continually find myself airing the lumber out (when it is under a tarp) flipping it one way or another to keep it from getting too damned curvy to work with and generally doing whatever I can do to keep it in good shape for building with once it dries out.

Anyway, I have been thinking about the pandemic stuff a good bit lately and find it rather disturbing that the new trend is more or less disregard that there is a pandemic killing folks for the sake of 'getting back to normal' or some horseshit like that. I get it that folks have a massive mental fatigue in regards to all things related to the virus but damn it seems premature to be acting like it is all behind us. Personally, I think that many of the narratives being spun by folks amount to whatever is the most self-serving whether that be for political reasons, social reasons, economic reasons or religious reasons and the narratives that are focused on health... well they just get drowned out, diluted or misrepresented and that is some sad shit right there.

Alright, it is another morning here and I am regretting not staying in bed yesterday because now my back is feeling super tweaked out. I wound up doing too much light duty stuff yesterday and ugh is it uncomfortable this morning. I really thought that I was doing well yesterday to not make it worse but I guess all the activity added up because when I first woke up I could not move without a bunch of sharp pains in my lower back. I might have done some tossing and turning in my sleep that contributed to it as well because I kept waking up during the wee hours of the morning needing to reposition myself so that it did not hurt, which I gingerly did each time until I could drift back off to sleep.

I did do good at not doing anything too strenuous throughout the day even though I was super tempted to which honestly always seems to happen when I am injured. Since I had gotten the sub-floor installed in the solar shack the day before I decided to go ahead and get it painted before it could get too dirty to do so effectively. The last several times that I have gone to a building supply store I checked their discounted paint section (where they mark-down paint that did not mix to the color they wanted) and have been picking up a gallon or so of the stuff whenever I can find a tolerable color. The discounted paint is usually priced around ten bucks a gallon so stocking up on it that way is rather affordable and it is a good way to get expensive (quality) paint at a cheap price. The paint that I used on the sub-floor was an exterior paint (the solar shack is mostly windows so I wanted something UV resistant on the floor) and it is somewhere between being a deep blue or black color which will work nice on a floor.

Anyway, when I started painting the sub-floor I did not anticipate doing any other painting but I wound up also painting the doorway, the bottom portion of the building's outer band and the wooden blocking that is between the building and the foundation blocks. At first I looked around for one of my paint pans but being unable to find one I decided to just use a big paint brush which in the end worked out good because I was able to work the paint into all the cracks, blemishes and nail holes super well. I do not know how long I was in the solar shack during the heat of the day applying the first coat but by the end of it I was feeling a bit fried from all the fumes even with the wind blowing hard and the building ventilating itself sufficiently. By the end of the day I got two rather thick coats applied to everything and even used some red paint to paint my outdoor bar (the one outside the dog yard) as well as another triangle piece of plywood (it is actually the cut-off piece left over from when I made the other bar) that I want to make into another bar, counter-top or shelf. The red paint was really thick and was tricky to apply evenly no matter how well I stirred the paint beforehand but I think that it will be fine for my purposes even if I do not apply another coat of it to the bar tops.

Well, it is another day here and whoa did I sleep in late today and did not get out of bed until nearly eight o'clock! Not that it is a big deal or anything because my back is still feeling tweaked out and I will yet again be having a 'light duty' day. Once I got to moving around doing stuff yesterday my back was not quite as sore feeling but throughout the day it constantly reminded me with little twinges of pain that it was still 'out of whack' so to speak. Thankfully I did not injure it further by doing stuff the last few days but it also assuredly slowed the healing process so I may just have to take today off altogether so that it can start to mend.

Early in the day I dove back into painting stuff and got the rest of that unused bar/counter-top painted as well as the outdoor bar beside the new cabin that I have been using as a cut table for sheet goods. That particular paint job got a bit out of hand because after getting the counter three-quarters of the way painted I ran out of red paint and had to switch to the other paint that I had used to paint the floor of the solar shack. Since I had most of it painted red before realizing that I was going to run out of paint I did not plan ahead that well and wound up with a big unpainted square in the center of the counter and when I began painting it with the other paint I was like: damn this is going to be ugly. At which point I decided to get a little creative and turn my painting flaw into a painting feature by making some art. Thankfully I avoided getting anything smaller than the three inch wide brush that I was using to paint with and did not get overly involved in it all or I could have easily spent the entire day doing detail work on what is merely a work table.

Originally I was thinking that I should paint a few more coats on the solar shack floor but even by the very end of the day it was still feeling tacky from the previous day's paint job so I decided to wait until it all dries before applying anymore paint. It is tempting to call the two coats that the floor already has 'good enough' but in reality I think that without three or four coats the paint will get scuffed and worn all too quickly. I am unsure just how much foot traffic the floor will get but while it is still clean (and I have the paint) I may as well layer it on to make it as durable as I possibly can. I keep thinking that having the floor of the solar shack to work on (like a table) might come in handy down the road so I have done my best to keep it very level, smooth and uniform. What got me to really thinking about that was when I put the vinyl 'windows' in and I was able to roll the vinyl out on the floor, measure it and cut it with relative ease.

On a different note. At some point late in the afternoon I got super fixated on setting up part of my micro-grid in the solar shack which meant getting a solar panel, charge controller, battery and some twelve volt utility ports all setup. Honestly it has been nagging at me the entire time that I have been here to get some solar power going and lately the only thing that has been standing in my way is that the solar shack was not enclosed enough and its roof only has zip-board on it and is not yet finished out with roofing metal. Once I got the floor installed and the shack mostly enclosed I was like 'hmm maybe I can just put a battery in there and put my small panel on the roof and call it good enough for now...' which is pretty much what I did.

I even retrieved the shelving unit from storage that I have previously used to install my batteries, inverters, charge controllers and basically my entire micro-grid in and got it all cleaned up and painted. A single coat of paint sure transformed how the shelving unit looks and although I have yet to mount it in a permanent place inside the solar shack it does look nice in there just sitting on the floor with a single battery in it. Atop the shelving unit I placed a USB hub, my two small USB five volt power-banks, several micro USB cords for charging stuff and a single phone that is of course mining crypto.

I do not know why I never thought of doing it before but I daisy-chained the two power-banks together so that the solar panel is charging the big twelve volt deep cycle battery and from there I am charging the first power-bank which is then charging the second power bank which is then charging the phone. Basically I was tinkering with creating redundant power for the phone and in this case for the phone to absolutely run out of power its own internal battery would have to be depleted, as well as both the power-banks and the deep cycle battery. So, a grand total of four batteries have to run out of charge and the sun has to not be shining for the phone to lose power. I will also probably have my radios, flashlights and other five volt devices charging off that rig so I am sure that at some point (as I add devices) I will hit a tipping point with electricity generation, storage and usage and will have to shift some of it to a second system. I was thinking of setting up such a second system with one of my larger solar panels today but with my back being all tweaked it is probably best if I delay that project for a few days.

Alright, I guess that I should wrap this up for now and get on with doing the editing and perhaps the posting. It is always such a process with these entries that span several days and hopefully I will eventually shift back to making daily posts once I have more time to do so. As for now... I just have to keep plugging along getting things setup and operating under the premise that eventually things will pan out where I will have plenty of writing time as well as more space to do it in. My little writing table in the tent is of course so cluttered that I barely have enough room for a keyboard and mouse let alone all the other odds and ends that I need on it. I have made it work this far though so I will undoubtedly keep doing so but I often fantasize about having enough room to have an area dedicated solely to writing and nothing else. Oddly enough that little fantasy has kept me constantly seeking to improve my life for a heck of a lot of years! I hope that everyone is doing well and has a nice day/night.

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I like how this counter-top looks with the red paint.

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My now artsy work table!

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The insulation in the cabin went in fast.

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Some of the cabin's interior with the OSB installed.

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I kept moving this nest to the window while I was working each day in the cabin.

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Once I finished the cabin interior I made a shelf for the bird nest.

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I know the picture is not the best but if you look close you can see the little bird eggs.

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I like this paint job on the solar shack's floor.

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The micro-grid shelving unit that I painted!

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The newly installed micro-grid in the solar shack!

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I really like how the solar shack is coming along!

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More about me: I have been doing property caretaking (land stewardship) for many years (decades) and live a rather simple life with my dogs doing what most folks would consider to be an 'alternative minimalist lifestyle' but what I often just think of as a low-impact lifestyle where I get to homestead and spend the majority of my time alone with my dogs in the woods doing projects in the warmer months and taking some downtime during the colder months.

Nearly four years ago I began sharing the adventures (misadventures) of my life via writing, videos, pictures and the occasional podcasts and although my intention was to simply share my life with some friends it undoubtedly grew into much more than that over the years and now I find myself doing what equates to a full-time job just 'sharing my life' which is not even all that glamorous or anything but hey folks seem to enjoy it so I just keep doing it!

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It is all coming together, I am so happy for you.

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