I’ve got a lot of requests for blog posts about our day to day lives out here. I’d love to do these, but right now things are pretty boring. Because we spent 2018 in the lower 48 we don’t have animals, or a green house going like we’d hoped to this year. And since we returned home in winter, we have to wait until things thaw out to start any big projects.

What we’ve been doing with ourselves while we wait for spring has mostly been a lot of little projects, and a bunch of planning.

We’ve been discussing green houses, high tunnels, the new cabin, animals, and expanding our income streams. The direction we want to take the blog in has been a big topic as well. We’ve also been spending time visiting with friends we missed last year, and taking our daughter on play dates and to the community center. Throw in a bunch of doctor appointments for me, and maybe we’ve been busier than I thought! Most of it just hasn’t been specifically homestead/off grid related. That doesn’t leave much to write about, and I don’t want to clog up things with little anecdotes and snippets of our lives that aren’t relevant to the blog. After all, that’s what Facebook is for 😉

One thing I realized I had to blog about is winter traveling for our trips to town.

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What We Do Before We Leave”