Adding to our Homestead

We’re leaving for Deming today with half of our household packed into the truck and a new 6×10′utility trailer. The other half will come with us when we finish the move on October 2. It’s a big day for us and we’re super excited! One step closer to living the simple life we’ve planned out for over 20 years.

We really wanted to build our own buildings but with Jeff’s ridiculous travel schedule we simply don’t have the time. If we waited until we had the time we’d be 95 years old. So instead, we’ve bought a 12×32′ garage by the same Mennonite builders who made our cabin. We’ll have that delivered this week while we’re out on the property. We’ll be picking up our 19′ camper tomorrow morning too, so we’ll be wallowing in the good life with a shower and water and a stove AND a fridge. Basically, we feel rich.

Our options were either to rent out a costly space for who knows how long, or to build a good sized shed to house our motorcycles, boxes, extra furniture, etc. Since we have no time, in the end we went with this building. The place that sold us the cabin actually had this garage sitting on their lot ready for delivery in days instead of the 5 weeks it took to build our cabin, so we’re very happy to go with it. It means our move will go super smoothly and it gives us another almost 400 square feet of space to work in/store things/spread out in. The finish already exactly matches the cabin, which is so sweet. It’s going to look like we planned it all out in advance as opposed to the truth, that we are flying by the seat of our pants on many of these things.

I’m looking forward to taking pictures to share now. We’ll be configuring the buildings and camper in such a way that we’ll end up with a u-shaped courtyard in the center. This will block out the wind quite nicely and we’ll be able to spread out our lawn furniture and grill there, giving us a massive outdoor living space. In the spring we’ll build a huge, low deck that will take up much of the courtyard and we’ll cover at least a good portion of it so we can have shade throughout the day.

I’ll share pictures next week when I’m in Seattle and Jeff is in Michigan. But in the meantime, we’re together and life is good so I’d better get cracking because there’s lots of boxes to haul this morning!