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Another camping update...

Bitsy LOVES all of our land. So do I.

The farm is so so quiet. I can't believe we're out there. We heard coyotes the first night. There were deer tracks around our house. So much wildlife. So much love.

Finally!

Well, we've moved. We dont have electricity so we're kind of camping out. It's not so bad. I enjoy it.
I'm thieving internet right now so I won't spent too much time here..

Native plants and other things.

I'm growing less and less interested in conventional vegetable growing. I mean organic conventional vegetables too.
The local native plant society has done a lot to its website, and apparently has a new president. This is exciting. I've spent much of the day looking at different options for native plants and perennial vegetables. I'd like to eventually plant A LOT of fruiting trees and things like that. I like the idea of a forest garden, and I'm becoming more interested in open meadow plants as well.
All I'm saying is.. I have too many ideas to sleep.

Thats about it. Everything that is going on seems too huge, too important to explain.
I can hardly form a bullet list.
But here I'll try...

-I think my entire soul has been going through intense cleaning and purging.
-I feel like my life is coming together in one solid piece.
-We are officially moving on Wednesday.
-Big huge obnoxious plans.

Still working.

We visited Seth and Andrew's friend over the weekend.
He was setting up solar panels while we were there. He showed me the 'control room' but all of this is very new to me, so I listened but had very little to say about it.
Seeing his place was inspiring though. I don't know what initially set me off in this direction, but the homestead has dominated my future goals for the past six years or so. No, I remember, it was when I became aware of intentional communities way back in the day and decided I was going to join a commune... haha.

With our land now cleared, I'm in a hurry to get things set up and move out there. We got the permit for the septic system. They are surveying tomorrow or Thursday. I also got another quote on the well, and the difference is $1100 from the estimate the other company gave us. I had to spend the day looking at the detail and trying to make any sense of it.

I'm hoping it's all done by April.
After this stuff with the property is handled... things will be much easier I think. I'm going to get to work on a garden, so I'll probably be just as busy but at least it won't be calling and hassling with people and price quotes and all that stuff. It's amazing just how much time that consumes. I'm really really glad to see this thing moving forward though.

Our home site.

Here is our land. This is where it all begins....

Progress.

This week has been so busy. We are finally making progress on the property. I called and set up appointments with a few companies on Monday, met with the guys yesterday and today and we will be getting the trees and brush cleared on Monday!
Not only that, but the guy we decided to hire is really awesome and he's going to be looking around for companies to do the water well, the septic tank and the electricity. This guy also does driveways and other site clearing, so we will probably have him do a little more work before then.

I'm thinking out next major investment on the property will be SOLAR ENERGY!! Because seriously, we might as well use the rest to get ourselves off the grid. Louisiana has a new 50% tax rebate on solar energy now too....

I'm excited. Being out there this morning reminded me just how beautiful that place is and how much I can't wait to be out there, and have Callum grow up there.

We'll be spending less per month on the loans for the trailer and setup than I would have spent on rent at my old apartment for less than 4 years. And we'll have it paid off in FIVE. Nice. 100% ours in 5 years.

Then solar, and trying to grow our own food and having a cute little family...

The old house

On Friday I cleaned out the living room in the old house so the place is actually starting to feel like a house. It's amazing. My spinach and cabbage plants are coming up, and today I'm replanting my herbs in a big steel washtub that Ronnie gave me. I'm probably going to spend more time doing some work around the house and go jogging to get my mind off of all the things that are coming up this week.

The Beginning

Well, I've moved in and I love it here. Seth and I have been talkng about a lot of things, like getting goats and bees, turkeys, chickens and maybe some other things. Today we finally got some real work done on a garden bed. We only have one row for planting but I'm going to work on some more tomorrow. We might put in some kale or cabbage.

I'm going to go finish reading a book. I think tomorrow I'm going to go work some more out there. Anyway, not much else to say.