Living Simply for a Better Life
The last few weeks has been a state of limbo for us, yet at the same time, we have been working ridiculously hard. The work has been mental effort, though, rather than the usual physical work we are used to. We have crunched numbers, drawn […]
Emma has been thoroughly enjoying her new mountain top. She paces and patrols it and it has become her new lookout post. The problem is, she is digging out holes in the side and it is causing it to wash. We are expecting more rain, […]
We have been anticipating living in a yurt for several years. In the beginning, we had thought we would make one because we had the sawmill to cut the slats, etc. After moving to the property, though, we soon realized that while it wouldn’t be […]
Two years ago, we dammed up the tributary to the creek so that we could run Roy’s ram pump to water the garden. That is a post unto itself… The dam was originally made by stacking rock, weaving in vinyl roofing material, and sealing with […]
We finally got the chicken coop finished and occupied. Frederick the First and Chicky moved in day before yesterday and look lost in such a big space all alone. We anticipate filling the coop with a whole flock in the near future, though. We used a red oil […]
Once Roy had the coop under roof, we took some time off for other things on “the list”. This weekend we got the run started with a 4 foot fence. The final step in construction will be the roof of the run. Roy has come […]
We have finished up the construction on the coop itself. All the windows and doors are in and all the siding is up. The only real cost besides our labor was the tin for the roof at $140. We did purchase the window material, a clear […]
This is the beginnings of our marvellous chicken coop that Roy calls the Taj Machicken. Of course it started out a lot smaller and a lot simpler than it ended up due to revisions we made after we selected the site. Roy used what he […]