Friends

I am so grateful for the Internet! (even if I can not fully get it at my house.) I was able to connect with a local home school moms group. I have met with these ladies and their pack of kids for a couple of weeks. All of the moms I have met have been very nice and filled with information, and all of their kids are very friendly and include Ronin in their frog catching and running wild.

One of the moms brought her husband over, who is an ex lumberjack and he spent a 3 hours giving Travis lessons in cutting trees and chopping wood.

We have a small wood pile stacked for next years wood.

Travis still needs to cut the stumps closer to the ground. We still need to source dry wood for this years burning. I guess you can buy a logging truck worth of wood but it might not be all dry. Hayward WI is a big logging community. Along with the dry wood we need to source saw dust for the composting toilet. Travis went to one place and they guy asked "What do you need the saw dust for planting blueberries?" Travis says, "No the shitter."

Our neighbor two houses down is an ex farmer. he came over with his skid steer loader and took out some brush to make a spot for our shed.

Travis and I have zero building skills so we had to buy it. We bought a pretty big shed to store all of our tools and lawn mower with snow blower. Right now we have everything stacked against the house with a tarp over it It looks very white trash.

There are zero closets and no basement in the 360sqft house. My canning supplies and maybe some books might end up stored in the shed.I still can not believe all the books and comic books we have after we did our giant purge before we moved.

With all these trees coming down for the well driller truck, its letting in wonderful sunlight. I started looking at the property for possible garden site for next year. I think I know where I want the orchard to go in. With all the deer and wildlife around I have to consider fencing too. I'm very glad Travis took his permaculture design class in Montanan in 2012.

I remember for my 30th birthday I wanted to save up and take a trip to the Czech Republic but then told Travis I would rather use that money as a down payment on land. 4 years later we are living here. Pretty crazy how hard work and planning can pay off. (maybe I won't feel this way after the first winter.)