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Mechanical Concrete – Recycling Old Tires

Katie — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 07:53:39 +0000

We’ve been busy, busy, busy this past month! One of the first projects we needed to get done to move to the new cabin was grading the driveway so we could once again drive up the bluff. Once it was graded the next step was doing something to keep it from washing out during high […]

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A House Within A Cabin

Katie — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:51:40 +0000

Ah, the quirks and idiosyncrasies of old houses. And this old cabin is no different! Or, as it were, two old cabins: Even the floorboards in the kitchen and living room areas are different. The kitchen has wide planks where the living room’s boards are much narrower. And the wall between the two rooms […]

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The Beginning Of The End

Katie — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 06:00:31 +0000

2021 marks the beginning of the end for our family on this little slice of off grid Alaska. 5 years on just over 5 acres living in under 500 square feet. We’ve felled trees, built a cabin and carved out a garden. I’ve loved every minute of living out here, so why leave? Here’s the […]

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Building Off The Grid In Alaska

Katie — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:14:42 +0000

I swear one day we are going to start on our off grid dream home. I guess today is not that day! Our current project is adding onto our original cabin. It’s a bit of an odd building because, like a lot of Alaskans, we’ve been building as we could afford to. Also, each addition […]

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A Greenhouse And A Garden

Katie — Wed, 20 May 2020 19:47:51 +0000

We’ve been keeping ourselves busy with this gorgeous sunny weather we’ve been having here. From cutting in the driveway to where the new cabin will go and picking our building spot, to building a greenhouse and prepping the garden space. We’ve even been having hotdogs and smores over the fire as we slowly burn our […]

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

Katie — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:36:23 +0000

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 […]

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Homestead Goals For 2019

Katie — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:35:46 +0000

In keeping with the trend since I started this blog, I wanted to lay out our goals for the homestead over the next year. Even though we spent most of this year away from Alaska, we are excited to return to what we think of as our “real” lives. So here are our homestead goals […]

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Building On A Budget – The Alaskan Way

Katie — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 04:27:04 +0000

As anyone who has read my previous post about our finances knows, we are on a serious budget out here. But just because we don’t have money doesn’t mean work on the homestead stops! With winter fast approaching, we knew we couldn’t let our water reservoir freeze. Last year we hauled all our water in […]

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Winter Prep On An Alaskan Homestead

Katie — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 07:30:45 +0000

Winter is nearly here in our little slice of Alaska. Trees are barren and we’ve already had our first frost. Seeing as winter is our longest and harshest season, we use the rest of the year to prepare for it. So what does preparing for winter on an Alaskan homestead entail? Firstly, we heat with […]

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