My One Year Anniversary Living Off Grid in New Mexico

Irrigating my Desert Garden (and other ways of bringing water to the land)

Building an Observation Studio for Stargazing

From Raw Land to This - in 11 months!

Off-gridders: Are you just building, or is there a higher purpose?

The bath house, puppies, and David Bowie in the desert

sculpting my house with ferrocrete, adding a human charging station and bathhouse

How to Build a Simple Off-Grid Bathroom

A Simple Day - winter solstice 2023

Are People Reading This Correctly?

Nothing Left to do but Go Outside!

Mr. Buddy Heater Update, Embracing the Cold, and How to Dream Better (Thank You Jimmy Dore)

It's Fa-reeeeezing Cold and Mr. Buddy is NOT my Buddy!

Rats, rats, and more rats - charting this week's progress with help from the I Ching

All was going so well and then the cat disappears

Well, I've Made it this Far!

So why the hell am I out here again?

The monsoons have finally arrived! So have the tarantulas

Relentless Heat...but I'm not going anywhere (literally)!

Desert Homestead Built from Nothing - the first 120 days

This One Hurts to the Core

No Need to be "Alarmed"

Extreme heat = slow progress

The gnats have arrived!

Desert homesteading ain't for pussies - this week's sobering realization

I'm Really Hot, No Really. Hot.

Working Between Monsoons

My shipping containers have arrived!

Crawdaddy Blues Festival, Madrid, New Mexico 2023

Preserving the Old Bones