So I'm back.
I've been hiding a little bit, hoping and praying that my life wouldn't implode. No guarantees there, but we can but hope.
We have a cabin. A solar cabin. It's using propane heat for now, but I'll try to change that as time goes on. This is Day 3 of living in the cabin.
Day 1, we had a sudden blizzard. That was great. I stayed home, and hoped and wished my husband would come home, or would have gotten a hotel. But of course, out of any cell phone range, there was no way for me to know which it was (or if he was lying dead on the side of the road), I waited by the window for him to come home.
Thankfully, he did. I was ready to give up the cabin right then and there: it isn't worth killing my husband to live (mostly) off-grid. But he's game to keep going. So we stayed.
Later, the generator ran out of gas and we froze our asses off for the three or four hours we got to sleep. The wind seems liable to break down all the trees, so whenever I woke up, I watched the trees sway. He couldn't drive up the road to our house, so we had to walk a mile to the car at 4am in the same blizzard to get to work. It was beautiful down off the mountain.
Of course, I forgot my computer.
Day 2
We made it through work, awake most of the time. We got into Boulder and our tire went flat. Not just flat; shredded. Steel threads poking through everywhere. How this managed not to happen on the rocks, on the twisty roads, on the highway, I do not know. I do not want to think about it.
We got extra gas, so we could plug in our electric heater. We left the attic stairs down so the heat from the propane heater could keep us warm. Nice, toasty night: lesson learned.
EXCEPT. We left some meat outside to keep it cool, and a neighbor's dog ate it. I know it was a dog and not a bear because the dog left the strawberries, and a bear would have eaten them. Plus, I didn't see any bear tracks.
We found a great pizza place, though.
Day 3--today. The drive in was nice and dry. We could drive up the road next to ours, so we're happy about that. I showed hubby the sink in the "bathroom" so he could wash his hands. We found out that the place gets messy REALLY fast: one night of not picking up clothes, or garbage, or anything else. One day of tracking in snow, and the whole place looks dirty.
We're adjusting to the new routine, I think. Starting to remember all of the projects we want to do. It's raining in a couple of days, so I want to make sure I get the blue water containers open and collecting rain for wash water. We have several gallons of drinking water. And, of course, the composting toilet does not use water. I need to take pictures and make some short videos, because I know a lot of people are curious.
We still aren't sleeping very well, or getting home early enough. We learned our lesson about getting home before dark (when possible), because of sudden snowstorms, but we haven't managed to develop a good routine. Because we can't really shower at home, we're going to be joining a gym, I think. I'm going to shower at home tonight, anyway, because I have my methods :-)
There are a lot of real-life bits that I am assiduously avoiding. It sucks. I need to just get them done and stop being so afraid. Bill-paying, and talking to official people, are the things that scare me the most.
