Dear Diary: 9/23/24 – Coming Down

All the siding is off, now I’m taking down the interior finish wood. After that, I’ll have all the framing timbers exposed and ready for removal. For eight years this trusty stove has kept our cabin warm. My it do…

Dear Diary: 9/16/24 – Most important possessions

We’re packing up our most important possessions and putting them in storage until we build the new cabin. We love our nature art, rocks, sticks, and bones.

A life of labor

I filled an entire semi-truck with tires. That’s a lot of pounds of rubber!

Dear Diary- 9/10/24 Too Much Stuff!!!

Too much stuff! I’m enjoying sorting through all the “stuff” I’ve somehow managed to accumulate over the past eight years while living a “simple life.” Even when you try to keep physical possessions to a minimum you end up with…

Dear Diary 9/9/24 – Live free or die #1

While I’m taking down our house and moving it to our new property, we’ll probably have to do a little camping. I’ll prep these lodgepoles to hold our canvas covers. #LiveFreeOrDie

Dear Diary: Jan 7, 2024

Sunday morning 4:04 am. A friend died this week, and important goals were relocated on my map of life. We have lots of firewood, lots of food, and lots of love in the house. I’m not sure how much life…

Dear Diary: December 19, 2023

I went for a visit yesterday to see old Sol. We have been friends for eight years now. When I first moved here, his station would be full of old men talking. The station was always full of life. These…

Dear Diary: December 3, 2023

We cut fat foods from our diets back in the 1980s. Now the entire country is full of fat people. Fat people are everywhere. Fat moms and fat fathers with little fat children waddling all about.