Katie, Author at High Tide Homestead

Cleaning Outboard Fuel Injectors

by KatieAugust 20, 2019June 13, 2023Equipment / Fishing1 Comment

Living off grid with no road connection means becoming a jack of all trades. Often seen as a bad thing due to being misquoted as “A jack of all trades, master of none”, when it was originally meant to be a compliment. While we may not be experts at anything we do out here, we end up with a lot of broad knowledge and adaptability. This time that means knowing how to utilize Google, and having basic engine knowledge to fix a problem with fuel injectors.

If you read this post, then you know our boat got swamped, and the motor is giving us issues. Our plan was to clean our fuel injectors for our boat motor. But because we can’t just run to the store and grab a tool or item any time it’s needed, we end up MacGyvering to make things work.

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Update: How We Feel About
Being Parents Off Grid

by KatieJuly 29, 2019June 13, 2023Family / Homesteading6 Comments

So I suppose it’s about time I update this post about being new parents off grid. I know we’re almost 3 years into being parents with Bellamy, but I still feel totally new at everything! And now with her younger sister Inara, we get to experience all those fear and wonder inducing things a second time around.

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Babies, Fishing, and Other Updates

by KatieJuly 19, 2019June 13, 2023Fishing / Goals / Homesteading / Money / Updates2 Comments

All right y’all. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve written anything here, but we have been all over the place out here. So all over in fact that I’ll be giving this a title after it’s written, but here are some of our updates:

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Winter Traveling:
What We Do Before We Leave

by KatieMarch 18, 2019June 14, 2023Off Grid And Off RoadLeave a Comment

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 😉

How to ride a snow machine with a toddler who falls asleep *every. single. time.*

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”

Planning With Pennies:
Building A Dream Home Off Road In Alaska

by KatieFebruary 23, 2019January 2, 2022Building3 Comments

One of our goals for this year is to start breaking ground on our dream home, aka the forever cabin. That means we’ve finally decided on a plan for it! We had a lot of things we needed to consider, from foundation to plumbing to electrical wiring, just like building in town. Except our goal was to minimize costs, materials we needed to haul out, and minimize future water and electricity use. We’ll be building most of this ourselves, without being able to get contractors to our property. Though we do have a lot of friends who are excited to help it come together 😀