Healthcare Homesteaders

I know it may be difficult to believe, but our home really is on the horizon. I apologize profusely for the hiatus; we have much to fill you in on. But first, a very important pond update. Drumroll, please! This is what we’ve all been waiting for, right? How long did it take us to…

I know it seems like it’s been crickets over here… …BUT the property has been unseasonably wet. Instead of heading to the land every weekend or so to do some work, we’ve been heading there every few days just to check the rain gauge and see the progress on the pond-filling front. In the month…

We don’t have running water at our property yet, and I’m not sure we’re going to bring it across the pond anyway—our Morton building is southeast of our pond, and our house site is northwest of our pond. What we do have is more than 3,000 square feet of relatively debris-free metal roof area at…

Not everything we do goes as planned. While I could just provide updates to some of our previous project pages, I believe we’ve had enough struggles to warrant a separate post. And in the spirit of full transparency, I want to share some of the things that didn’t work and what we did to try…

Here are some pond adjacent projects we’ve been hard at work taking care of; these are things that either had to wait until the pond was finally finished and/or are geographically near the pond area. Fork Landscaping For years, we’ve discussed ideas for landscaping the area at the fork in the driveways. The driveway to…

This part of the pond rehab was so awesome—and we learned so much—it deserves its own post. I realize you might be wondering what a fish habitat really is. Water, right? Isn’t a fish habitat just a body of water? Not exactly. Think about a really cool aquarium. Is it an empty glass cube with…

These two projects go together, because we couldn’t do one without the other. The driveway to our future home site had to bridge the broken dam through which the pond was leaking (Grandma’s Gorge). Hang in there with us; the road through this phase has some major twists and turns. The plan was to repair…

As expected, on the low grade side of our building, the ground falls away. What was more unexpected was the fact that over the course of the first year, erosion had made the drop off worse. It became apparent that during some of our heavier rains, the 6” gutters are nearly undersized for the massive…

We’ve had great weather. Either winter had been mild and kind, or spring came early. Regardless, it allowed us come out of hibernation and get a jump start on some spring cleaning and other projects. For now, everything is centered around our Morton. We have this giant building full of stuff, and organization has been…

We are learning a lot through research and others’ experiences, but we’re also learning through our own trial-and-error. We have even pushed the boundaries on more than a few occasions. So for fun, we’ve decided to share some of those boundary pushing experiences. We want to preface this by saying that we work in healthcare,…