Astro foil!!

Check it!

DOUBLE RAINBOW!

Despite the rain it was a beautiful sunday evning, I spent most of the weekend volunteering (as per usual) but got to spend Sunday afternoon & evening out at the Yurt!!

The priority of the night was getting the cook stove up and running, and I do say it was successful! I had to cut a few fire bricks to fit he stove, and remove a cast iron plate from the front (where you would insert the wood) not sure what the previous owners of the stove did, but I am sure it was a pain in the arse!!

once I got the new fire bricks in, I installed the stove pipe, and cleaned up the area, and oh boy did that baby burn! once going it was great, warmed the yurt up real nice and cooked our dinner perfectly, the oven works like a charm!

We were also blessed with a beautiful double rainbow!!!

My insulation is arriveing this week, I will be installing that ASAP!

Rainy October

After a week of beautiful fall weather, we were gifted with a week of gloomy wet weather, which was alright by me because I wanted to test how the seal in my roof turned out. Turns out it doesn't leak as much as my floor does..... turns out since I left my walls bunched up at the bottom the water was collecting on them and pooling underneath, Dawna & I cleaned it up while trying to put a temporary fix on the problem until my insulation arrives later this week and I can properly cut the w alls and fasten them to the floor, hopefully it works.




Kijiji is one of the best tools for anyone starting/working/or planning any project, I have had so much luck with using this site its unbelievable, including the land I am leasing for this yurt project!! Last week while browsing I found something amazing....

1920's Singer Sewing machine!!

The pedal, the wheels and the machine seem to work great, I am going to clean it out a little then test it out as soon as I can! I have no doubts that it works like a charm!

Yurt down 2011

Its been a crazy five months! I didn’t get anything planted this year but we did manage to landscape the ‘swamp’ quite nicely in preparation for a beautiful garden, it will be in full bloom this spring, we have heirloom seeds for all sorts of vegetables!!

The most important thing is I completed my large yurt!! I made some mistakes with my math and once it started to go up it turned out to be 18 feet in diameter rather then 24, so I had to readjust a few things…. But its beautiful!!

I will be working on setting up my 12 foot yurt beside it, and will be living in it starting ASAP, please follow along!

Mobile yurt test!

Testing out the Blogger app for my smart phone to allow me to updated on the fly!

Day #1

Spent the first night at the farm last night, very happy, this is certainly the life for me! after arriving I unpacked some of the minimal gear I brought; a weeks worth of clothing, books, beeswax candles, sketchbooks, and art supplies, the essentials basically!

My Parents gifted me a chainsaw early for my Birth day, so I am very grateful of this, I also picked up a 30 watt solar panel on sale at Canadian Tire, I am pretty excited to put both of them into action soon! (the chainsaw tonight I hope)

I cant describe how much I love the sound of a crackling fire, the crickets and frogs on a warm spring night, its truly how life is meant to be lived, every day, every moment embraced within nature.

The 2011

Spring has been very kind to me, I have arranged the lease of a 40 acre lot equiped with an off grid cabin, I will be moving in at the end of the week but there is so much to do for summer.... I need to construct at least half a dozen large raised garden planters so that I can grow all of my food for the fall and winter, also need to finish my 24' Diameter yurt so that I can set it all up, I am hoping for June *crosses fingers*

I also made my first real backpacking trip of the season, a 24km round trip into Killarney Park, we had amaizingly nice weather as always, and met up with the Russians from least year's easter weekend!! Certainly looking forward to my next trip, or better yet canoe season!!

The best way to predict your future is to create it.