basicstoliving

Let me say right up front, this is not going to be a post with pictures or memes or any gifs. I want to get a message out and I do not want any of that to be a distraction to the message I am trying to

Many people start with rabbits on their homestead. They are great to start with if that is what you want. We were not thrilled having rabbits, here is the down and dirty of our experience with rabbits.

How many times have used a pull handle to open a drawer or a cabinet? Do you ever wonder what would it be like if it was not there to help us open that drawer or cabinet? Would it be easy to do or would

You go in and have surgery and they put all these staples in whatever they cut open. It is a pain to get them all removed as it is never a few it is always as many as they want to put in and it is a lot

As you know I had to have a revision done my knee again. I had the surgery on the 6th of August. I had to be there at noon on the 6th. Late in the day and could not eat or drink after midnight so I was

Hello Everyone! I am proud to report I am the owner of a new knee, well a revised knee. My appointment was at noon and I was in surgery about 2:00 pm or so and was out of recovery and in my room about

I will have to have surgery on my knee again. About two months ago I was working on the small house and I managed to hurt the knee again. In a couple of days it was feeling great so did not think anything

Ever look at something and think that would make a great picture! You miss that picture because you don't have your DSLR with you. You always carry your phone with you and most of us has some sort of

I did a contest a couple of weeks ago in support of the Global Homestead Collective. They have got a coin for the community called the global home coin. It is tied to the Waves coin, you need to have Waves

In this series, we have talked about building a homestead from just raw land and starting with a homestead that was already built, some pros and cons to each. We have talked a little about how much land

To everyone in the GHS Collective community or anyone who has a Waves wallet or any crypto wallet. I was seeing transfers into my wallet from RZ Coin, RN Coin and several other things I did not recognize.

If you are a homesteader you have some kind of structure on that homestead. It does not matter if you are a "Homesteader" with 20 acres or 1/4 of an acre. There is something built on that homestead.

We left off on the last post talking about getting a well in for water on your homestead. I wanted to make this post about well pumps and tanks and also the advantage to a pitless adapter for your well

In the GHS Collective group on Discord, we have created our own coins called GlobalHome Coins. It is a crypto coin and uses the Waves Lite Wallet. When you get your wallet created be sure to send a DM

This is an observation of some of the communities here on Steemit! Many of the communities here are tied to a group on Discord, I love the idea of that because not only are you seeing the posts on Steemit

Just a short video of our well going in. It was a long time coming. It went in on 04/30/2017. It has been in over a year and it is just now starting to get all the sand out of it. The water was drinkable

I have talked about starting with raw land and also finding an operating homestead to purchase. What to check for with zoning and planning. I have talked about clearing the land or making sure the operating

I had a few minutes today and wanted to work with my camera some more. I see all the macro pictures that @derangedvisions does and I finally figured out how to do them with the camera that @lexikon082

In part one of this series, we talked about starting out homesteading. We went over how much land you would need for what you wanted on your homestead. We also covered the pros and cons of raw land and

Did you ever wonder how do I plant potatoes or tomatoes? Here is the group you can go and ask. Do you wonder why something you planted is not growing the way it is expected too? Here is the place you can