by Millie Copper | Feb 3, 2017 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Off Grid
Hello, Friends! Winter is still in full force at our Wyoming farmstead. January brought many more snowy, cold days and even colder nights. With this cold weather, our septic system froze. Many off-gridders don’t have a flush toilet and instead use...
by Millie Copper | Nov 30, 2016 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Off Grid
The end of November already! This month just zoomed by. The main focus of November has been filling up our freezer. We finished our pastured broilers and completed our deer hunting. The freezer is filled to the brim. Joe still has an tag for a cow elk that we’re...
by Millie Copper | Nov 7, 2016 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Off Grid
Hello Friends! I’m slightly delayed in putting up a recap of what happened at our place in October. Joe and I took a couple of days off last week to go hunting which meant several busy days before and after. In fact, we’re still playing catch-up! Oh, but...
by Millie Copper | Sep 14, 2016 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Off Grid, Working From Home
At the end of 2007 while awaiting the birth of our sweet little boy I dipped my toe in the online world and started a blog. It began as a place I could share about our little guy — thoughts, feelings, etc and then about him and how he was growing then about our...
by Millie Copper | Mar 8, 2016 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Off Grid
After almost 5 years of planning we’ve officially moved off the grid. Almost three years ago we picked out our property. It’s a 20 acre parcel with amazing views. We’re still in Wyoming as evidenced by the lack of trees. The property was part of a...
by Millie Copper | Jan 23, 2016 | Around the Homestead, Working From Home
We’ve gone south for the winter! I’m pretty sure this makes us snowbirds. Unfortunately we didn’t quite go far enough south and it is COLD. Especially in the little house we rented with zero insulation and a heater/air conditioner window unit. The...