Apocalyptic Homesteading (Day 1207)
Hello Everyone!
Consolidating land priorities, There will be challenges, Mulling over storage solutions & Lots of rain!
Alright, I am running about nine minutes behind schedule with my writing routine... because I keep zoning out doing other stuff. At least my espresso is brewed... and although I keep sipping on it there is still plenty of it left to get me through this entry.
Last night I went to sleep rather early and woke up not all that long after sunrise which was a good feeling to say the least. Getting enough sleep each night and waking early... has been a nice change of pace for me after the roller coaster that I was on with it all for the better part of a month recently.
Since it was raining for much of the morning, I did not even bother with trying to do stuff outdoors... and mainly focused on reading up on getting various services started at the new property. I even finally broke down and began consolidating everything into a single text file... in an effort to get everything that I have been researching into a more structured format.
The other thing that I worked on was getting a list of questions together for some folks... that are going to try to scout the place for me before I make the move itself. It is not a one hundred percent thing that they can do it yet (because it largely depends on the weather) but in case they can do it... I want to have everything that I want to know as orderly as possible for them.
There are definitely going to be a lot of hurdles with the place and especially so with camping there whilst trying to get all the infrastructure in place... but hopefully I can pull it off before the winter. I know I was recently romanticizing about the idea of wintering in a canvas tent... but the more that I have thought about it the less that I actually want to do it.
Honestly, at this point I am still feeling more than a bit stunned over having my own land... and although the paperwork will not be finalized for another week or so... I keep catching myself daydreaming about what it will be like. Which of course brings up all kinds of misgivings... because for all I know the neighbors might be nosy jerks... and the place itself might prove to be less than hospitable for someone like me trying to live as simply as I can.
One of my larger concerns is that there seems to be a lot of property crime in the area... and given that the only flat spot (and the driveway) is close to a road I have some serious concerns about storing everything in a carport tent. All of which is why I keep mulling over getting a shipping container that I can lock up... and perhaps aiming a few cameras at it just for good measure when I am off site.
Not that a shipping container would prove to be much of a challenge to get into... by someone who is intent upon getting into one... but I may as well not make it easy on them either. For the most part the area that the property is in looks decent enough... but there really is no telling without spending some time there and seeing what is what.
Anyways, today the sun only came out briefly around noon... and it did not stay out long enough to dry things up before it started raining again not long afterwards. I guess that the down time was good for me... because I was able to eat a bunch more food... and let my body recover after having been pushing myself rather hard lately.
One way or another I have to get stuff done... but whoa this weather has not been helping at all... except for forcing me to take a break from packing every few days. I really should use one of these rainy days to get everything in the attic packed down... but every time I think about it I keep telling myself that it is a low priority task.
At some point everything will need to get packed down... and I really need to not be making excuses not to do the things that need to be done. The stuff outside (in the shop tent and solar shack) are their own mess (given all the cleaning required) but the stuff in the attic is rather straightforward and having it ready to move might help me feel like I am actually making some headway.
Well, I think that is all the words that I have in me for this entry. I hope that everyone is doing well... and not making excuses nor overly procrastinating simple tasks. Ta ta for now.
Just stopping by to say good luck with all the remaining work and stuff!
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Whichever you have tent or shipping container, put it near the dog yard. People are less likely to bother things when they know dogs are near, even with my dogs inside, they know what goes on in our yard day or night. I bet yours will be even more alert.
Yeah that sounds good but it is also a good way to get the dogs stolen. Better to put them at my camp away from the road.
I was thinking the container or tent would be near the place you are at, I would not want them far away from me either. And I would not think your dogs would let anyone walk away with one or all of them, I bet they are pretty protective of you, each other, and your things. But if you feel better about them being somewhere else, then that is where they should be.