All of our blog posts mostly show our success with various projects, but what they don't detail is the perspiration, hard work, and do-overs it all takes. Mostly, everything we do requires doing it over again, and sometimes over and over again. Take for instance, our water situation. We wrote a blog about how we … Continue reading Failures, Bloopers, and Fixes: Turning Lemons into Blue Ribbons

When Jen and I started planning this adventure over a year ago, we were met with so many questions from our friends and family. The most reoccurring question was what would we miss the most? I would often ponder all the different things that I could probably miss while out here. Movie theaters, restaurants, Internet, … Continue reading The Time Machine

The past few weeks have just flown by, filled with new friends and never ending projects. As Jennifer and I were working around the house one afternoon, we saw a float plane land in the little lake. This is a normal event over in the big lake during the summer because there are a handful … Continue reading Friends and Raging Respect 

Our one purpose for moving to this remote cabin on a lake in Alaska is to live an "Agrarian" life style. We are planning to set up a homestead that makes us as self-sufficient as possible, and to live by the work of our hands, debt-free and without regular monthly bills. We live off-the-grid, so, no … Continue reading The Agrarian Lifestyle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcoGJ1xwnUw So with the ever changing surroundings and plants around us, it's that time of year here in Alaska when the plants start producing berries. Lots and lots of berries! Being from the South and the memories of being chest deep in brier patches picking blackberries, I'm catapulted back to my childhood. Jennifer and I … Continue reading The Big Bang, Berries and Boats