Some Images From My Home

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We live off-grid…that means that we are deep within the forest, surrounded by mountains and trees and animals and birds and rocks and things…

We have no running water, no electricity, except the small amount we are currently able to harvest from the sun…enought to run a light when it is dark outside…it is winter here, so it is dark quite early, and this means that I can cook dinner by sunlight 🙂

All of our heating and cooking are by wood fire…luckily, there is a readily available source just outside the gate…

If we want hot water, we heat it upon the fire…even to do dishes

We can buy water and bring it in, however, that costs money, and requires time and fuel…since we are usually snowbound or mudbound… (the roads(dirt tracks) are treacherous), most of our water is collected from rain and snow melt. We store it in 55 gallon drums, or the sweet little water trailer we were lucky enough to buy for the princely sum of $150 and a few leak repairs. We filter this water, and it makes a wonderful cup of peppermint tea…my guage of water quality is how good my herbal teas taste…this water is really good 🙂

I run a small Etsy shop, selling hand made cat/dog toys, beautiful (ancient magical) wands, and my incredibly gentle and powerful Yucca soap…soon I will have woven Yucca fibre products, heart rocks, natural jewellery, petrified wood, shaman stones, .Juniper resin, Juniper berries…the list of things I wish to offer for sale is long… The Ancient name for this forest translates as “Land of Many Uses” and it is, and I am so very grateful to call this place my home

The sun sets outside our front door, and every day we thank Great Spirit for this opportunity.