Just before we left, I asked Jamie to do a little piece on her favorite blueberry patch. Now as you may know, blueberry patches are very, very secret, and to let you in on where her’s is - is really an amazing act of trust. But just to make sure that you really don’t tell anybody where this patch is - you have to swear that you will never tell anybody where this is - I mean it. I know it’s hard on the internet to get people to take a blood oath, but I’m asking you - prick your finger and swear that you will never - ever tell anybody where this patch is located. Then after you have done that, you can watch the video.
I am so amazed at her drive to pick berries. She picked over 5 gallons of berries while we were in Minnesota. Most folks go out for a few minutes - get bite a few times, and stop. She goes for hours at a time. Amazing!
Part of homesteading has to be water management. I mean - you can’t take a bath in the lake every single day, and the truth is - building fences, remodeling houses and gathering wood can really be a “strong” experience - if you catch my whiff. So it was clear to me that we needed an outdoor shower. Jamie found this black bag with the shower head attached and it holds about 2 1/2 gallons of water. Then we added a bucket of water and voila! We had enough to really clean two stinky people. Such fun, and of course it’s so private out there that you just want to take your clothes off - really!
After we got the logs, we had to get them on the land. So here it is. And some more information about what kind of logs we are using.
I have several more pieces ready to go too - one on our outdoor shower, one more tour of the land and one on the clay that we are going to be using for the plaster finish on our strawbale house.
We bought our logs the other day. I was truly amazed at what Ken Gerke could do with a front end loader. Now we are still playing with the design but at least we have the logs for us to use.
I've been working on our original website 
