We’ve simplified our lives to the point that we have no complex systems to maintain. Or so we thought. It turns out there is one complex system that is integral to this simple living: Josh. Josh was chainsawing one day last week, getting ready for when a winch will be available to haul more harvested […]
Monthly Archives: February 2013

A quick early morning glimpse of half of the herd that shares our clearing – making their oval beds on the moss, drinking from the stream, eating the cedar, plotting their infiltration into our future gardens:

Okay, so maybe we don’t actually have a medicine cabinet in the yurt. Or rather we do but it is usually referred to as “the kitchen.” This past week we were digging into it quite a bit to help fight off a winter bug that snuck into the yurt via the kindergarten petri dish. We’ve […]

For context on what this weekend’s blizzard was like for us, there are a couple of things worth mentioning about a yurt in general: 1) Josh can be outside at the wood pile and I can be inside making the beds and we can carry on a conversation. No need for shouting. We can just […]
Imagine if you did not have a mortgage (or rent)… Imagine how it might change your life, your possibilities, if you were not tied to that payment each month… THIS, this is really what sent us into the woods to live in a hut. I’ve realized lately that we’ve become sort of advocates for rustic, […]