4wheeler Archives - High Tide Homestead

Three Surprising Places To Find Cheap Homestead Goods

Katie — Sun, 14 May 2017 22:14:42 +0000

Homesteading is not cheap. From animal feed to fencing (Amazon) to the animals themselves, there are quite a few things a beginning homestead will need. When we first started out we made the mistake of purchasing everything from a big box store. We spend thousands of dollars before we realized we could buy things way […]

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Addition Update, Plus Around The Homestead

Katie — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 04:20:21 +0000

Just a little update from around the homestead and how we are doing now that there is snow. Our addition is finally done enough to be considered livable, woohoo! I waited for a bit to make sure everything was working out properly before writing about it, but our insulation and chinking plan came together well. […]

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Why Dog Is (Wo)Man’s Best Friend

Katie — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 06:35:08 +0000

The other day I had the worst experience of my life, and I really think the only reason I made it out okay was our dog, Ronan. As anyone following our adventures here or on Facebook knows, I was in a 4 wheeler wreck not too long ago. I immediately went to the ER and checked […]

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A Kick In The Teeth

Katie — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:58:54 +0000

Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth. Or Alaska kicks you. Or a 4 wheeler. Yup. Definitely a 4 wheeler. After talking about being safe on the homestead, I gained my first serious injury on the beach. Turns out speed + wearing two pairs of gloves (Amazon) because *brrrrrr* + giant flat rock = holy […]

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Pregnancy And Homesteading

Katie — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 19:31:45 +0000

I don’t want to make an entire post complaining, but being pregnant while starting a homestead has brought some interesting challenges. My pregnancy is only supposed to last another month (yay!) so we’re really feeling rushed on our timeline to get certain things done. Like our 12 x 12 extension to our studio shed. We […]

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Adding An Addition – The Floor

Katie — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:12:51 +0000

A few weeks ago Kyle and I decided that living in 96 sq feet was great for two people, but it’s not really enough space with a baby on the way. Since then, his big project has been figuring out how to add on to our current studio. Well, yesterday he finished the floor, and […]

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4 Wheeler Appreciation

Katie — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 08:30:06 +0000

So the last few weeks have been unreasonably hard. Our 4-wheeler’s drive shaft broke, and while we were driving on the beach too! We pushed it as close to the cliff face as possible and trekked the 5 miles back home. Kyle then went back at the next low tide and managed to get it […]

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Progress!

Katie — Fri, 20 May 2016 21:24:13 +0000

I feel like we’ve actually accomplished something and made progress in the past few days. After Kyle spoke with another gentleman with a cabin up in this area, we gave up on finding our markers for now. He had been coming up to his cabin for 10 years and never found his property markers! So… […]

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Reality Check

Katie — Wed, 18 May 2016 04:42:23 +0000

This sh*t is hard. We didn’t expect easy, but it is H-A-R-D. Between there being no road to our property, and the survey markers being buried under 40 years of growth; we feel like we can’t even start working on our property yet! It’s been a huge reality check for sure. Today we spoke to […]

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