Hi all, well, it's been a while since I posted here.
And even longer since my last update. Truth be told, things have been kinda hectic here lately, and the biggest issue I've been dealing with is trying to find a steady source of income. So I have been putting all of my energy into that.
Well, not all...
As a matter of fact, during the last few months we've also been doing our best to continue our work on our Tipi cob floor. (If you haven't heard about our project you can read an older post here or watch a video all about it here.
I am happy to announce that after 20 months of hard work, we are finally at the final stage of the floor!!! That is, we have finished the final layer of oiling!!
This is pretty big news for us, as you can imagine.. It's the one project we've been focused on, on the land for over a year. And it's been pretty slow at progressing. Just finding the time to get down to the land, with a toddler at home, is pretty tough. And whenever I get there to work, it's only for a few hours at a time, so it's very hard to develop a good rythem. That's why we've been saying all along, that once we have the Tipi, and we can stay on the land for longer, our productivity will increase tremendously. All that time that goes into getting to the land, or even during the day between things, once we're there we can spend it working on projects on the land.
Our next big project now is to build the cob stove that will go where the fire is now (we built the floor around it and intentionally saved the space to build the stove). But even now, I have to say, being in the Tipi during the pouring rain, when it's around 10c outside, is still very nice and cozy. And when we have a fire going, it really is nice and warm, more so than even we expected..
Of course we have a lot of other projects in store after that; a compost toilet, fixing up the well and building a hand pump, building the kitchen, etc etc... never ending. But for now, we're trying to enjoy this big win for us...
If you'd like to see more, I have a new video, that'll be pretty long for me, detailing the entire process of our building the floor, from start to finish, using locally sourced materials (I've been thinking, locally sourced, as in getting them ourselves from our land, is not a very common notion yet. But I feel it will be in the future. So I thought of an acronym to suit our modern times. Locally sourced Lo-So. What do you think? just a thought). It's been so much more work that we thought, and I tried to capture that essence in the video. So look forward to that.. (I've been working on it for the last 6 months, so I'm putting a lot of thought into it..)
OK, this post is probably long enough as it is.. So I'd better wrap things up.
I apologize to anyone who rightfully thought it has taken me way too long to post here.. It is not, I assure you, that I haven't been thinking about this wonderful community.. I have been looking forward to writing this post for a long time.. But with all the pressures of everyday family life, building a homestead by hand alone, it's hard sometimes to even find the time (and energy), to sit down and write a post like this.
So thank you for you who read till the end. I appreciate it.
Have a wonderful day, and I look forward to sharing more about our journey in the near future.
