Our Lifestyle Blog as We Create a Homestead in Northern Ontario
Yesterday was a long day for me. We were low on water for breakfast, so I hiked over to Mummu and Grandpa’s to refill our supply. While there Grandpa assured me that the truck would navigate his roundabout. He told me it would be tight, but that it could do it. Back at the yurts, … Read more
Today started out typically for us – porridge breakfast, that amazingly, Kenny turned down! We mixed up some milk for him, and he dove into his Corn Pops cereal for a change. I headed off to try out the outhouse for the first time, and it worked great! There are still some finishing touches to … Read more
This morning dawned cold. Very, very cold! Donna and Mummu had agreed to return to camp today to finish preparing it for my parents’ visit at the end of the week – we’re all really excited to host them! I was enjoying a few moments of quiet reflection outdoors, when I suddenly heard the sound … Read more
Progress on the outhouse has been steady, but broken up into chunks of time here and there. This has mostly been due to the weather.As some of you may be aware, Thunder Bay and this part of the world have been hit by above average rainfalls this past month. Duluth has been especially hard hit … Read more
Last night we had a really powerful rain. It was so powerful, it somehow blasted water into the yurt from places we couldn’t begin to identify! I mopped it up, and lifted up the felt where it was slightly damp, to give it a chance to air out, and decided that my next priority was … Read more
Yesterday I buckled down and started some more serious work on my outhouse. Donna had suggested that guests wouldn’t really feel comfortable with our “thunder box” just being in the large yurt. I saw her reasoning, and set to work on my next project – a nice and refined outhouse. I am still going to … Read more
Sorry I haven’t written for a day or two – there have been a few trips that weren’t really blogworthy, and we misplaced the camera and didn’t want to post things without pictures, not that the pictures I’ll be including tonight are all that spectacularly interesting anyway. On Tuesday Donna and Mummu went to town … Read more
Not that long ago, I was totally ready to go with an indoor, composting toilet for our final cabin here.I also was trying to be pragmatic, and realized that an outhouse was going to be hard to do without until we had the cabin. Then, after seeing references to it during my internet travels, I … Read more
Today we started out right away working on clearing a spot for our dining tent.After a bit of thought, we have decided that to be on the safe side, we will try to not prepare (and hopefully not consume) food in the yurts until late in the fall when we are sure that the bears … Read more
Well, not so dirty – solar power is actually considered a “clean, green” power. I was just referring to how quickly I managed to get it online and supplying us with power. This morning was not nearly as cold as the past three. I actually regretted wearing my sweat suit all night. I was uncomfortably … Read more