by Millie Copper | Sep 1, 2017 | Off Grid
We’ve been living in and working on our off grid cabin for 18 months. Sometimes I’m amazed at the things we’ve completed. Other times I’m overwhelmed with what still needs to be done. 🙂 Kitchen August was spent working on the kitchen....
by Millie Copper | Dec 27, 2017 | Off Grid
October, November and December have been all about food and water. Food With our kitchen *almost* finished, at least finished up to the point we now have cabinets to store things and our walk-in pantry in place, though not yet completed, has shelving and space to...
by Millie Copper | Oct 3, 2017 | 20 Acre Homestead, Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Off Grid
September started off hot and dry. Since sometime in August we’d had smoke from the surrounding fires. We’re very fortunate to not have any nearby fires. Much of the smoke we were getting was from the terrible fires in Montana, Idaho and eastern Wyoming....
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. Â Joe and I took a couple of days off last week to go hunting which meant several busy days before and after. Â In fact, we’re still playing catch-up! Oh, but...
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 | Jan 4, 2017 | Around the Homestead
The word for December was cold! We had very few days above freezing and several below zero. One morning a neighbor told me their temperature gauge read negative 34. Friends, that is chilly. The icicles hanging from the roof were amazing. Â Unfortunately it also...