Posted on 10/07/2015 9:35:22 AM PDT by w1n1
If you don’t mind me asking, what prompted you to live in such a fashion?
Where did you carry water from? Did you buy it or were there fresh water streams? Looks like you had electricity?
Heck, it sounds like you should be giving us all tips. Nothing like experience to teach you all those little things you’d never think of until you have to deal with it.
The electricity you see is what I generated via solar panels, batteries and an inverter/charger. Not a lot of power. About 2KVA. Not enough to run a well. That was by hand.
Now that I'm back in town with mains power, I'm using the panels and batteries for emergency power here at the house. Lights, radio, wifi, network router... etc...
/johnny
I could run fence-lines for my room/board/space. I had 4 acres and that little shack. ;)
She did get married.
It wasn't to me.
/johnny
Yep. Experience is a great teacher. The tuition is pretty expensive, though.
/johnny
Recently my house water main broke and we were without for a week. Drinking & cooking was by far the least need. Washing was huge (even when minimal). Flushing... good that I have a small pond solving that volume with ease.
Wasn’t there a movie about that shack? Behind the Red Door??
Use a ‘sock’ type filter and the black filters sold by Berky. Then a pass through a Sawyer .02 micron filter. More than this would be distillation in one form or another.
Thanks...
I found it less than funny one morning when 2 of the bulls wound up on my porch. I don't believe in the bull/red color thing, but I was close that morning. ;)
/johnny
It was a joke, the movie was actually called Behind the Green Door. When I was in my early 20’s I lived for a year and a half in a small one room geodesic dome on a platform held up by telephone pole stilts. I was in college and only had to pay 30 a month. There were geodesic domes scattered around Carbondale Illinois because Buckminster Fuller taught there and I took his World Game class. The only entrance to the dome was from a trap door in the platform. I would pull my VW beetle up under the dome, step on the fender then the hood and could get inside. Dog and cat quickly learned. It had electricity and a small oil heater. No water, there was a hand pump at the back of an old farmhouse no one lived in. I had to do any dishes there, cold water on, and would set plastic jugs out with water to warm up for a back porch shower. I was in college with a full scholarship for tuition but nothing for room and board.I remember a restaurant in the college town that one night a week had all you can eat spaghetti for 2.00. I’d get a glass of water too and take some lemon sugar packets they had out for tea and make my own lemonade. Ah those were the days / NOT!!
It was a joke, the movie was actually called Behind the Green Door. When I was in my early 20’s I lived for a year and a half in a small one room geodesic dome on a platform held up by telephone pole stilts. I was in college and only had to pay 30 a month. There were geodesic domes scattered around Carbondale Illinois because Buckminster Fuller taught there and I took his World Game class. The only entrance to the dome was from a trap door in the platform. I would pull my VW beetle up under the dome, step on the fender then the hood and could get inside. Dog and cat quickly learned. It had electricity and a small oil heater. No water, there was a hand pump at the back of an old farmhouse no one lived in. I had to do any dishes there, cold water on, and would set plastic jugs out with water to warm up for a back porch shower. I was in college with a full scholarship for tuition but nothing for room and board.I remember a restaurant in the college town that one night a week had all you can eat spaghetti for 2.00. I’d get a glass of water too and take some lemon sugar packets they had out for tea and make my own lemonade. Ah those were the days / NOT!!
Also, keep a WaterBob around, if events where you might have some warning (hurricanes) are likely. $20-$25.
Amen then Prep!
For Washing. I think there are Dry Shampoo to wash hair. One can use wipes to bath.
That is cute, but does it have a bathroom for you know what? =)
Short answer is no. And there were large predators like bears and mountain lions in that pasture.
I didn't go out unless I was a)armed b)dressed c)had the dogs with me.
One night a dog ran off a big cat. My business finished early and I got inside the shack. ;)
/johnny
Which was hotter? The offset smoker or the tin house?
/johnny
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