Our Lifestyle Blog as We Create a Homestead in Northern Ontario
With the surplus power I have been getting on days like today, I felt like it was a good chance to push my luck and try out our popcorn popper. It has been used a couple of times a week here on the woodstove, but the whole reason I special ordered one that was suppose … Read more
Last year, before we installed the ceiling, we noticed a few times where water would occasionally seem to drip in behind the stove from somewhere near the stovepipe. I thought that perhaps it was condensation forming up in the chimney cone and running back down. I hoped that it would be cured by finishing the … Read more
Just thought I’d throw up a couple of pictures and a blurb about our solar power system this afternoon. I ran the generator this morning as it called for flurries off and on today, but around lunch the sun came out and the skies cleared, so I shut it off and gave the panels a … Read more
I originally put in accesses to the crawlspace. Two doors in the pantry (so we could lower food into that space and use it as a cold storage), and one at the bottom of the stairs (where I had originally envisioned putting in our solar batteries, but then lost my nerve at the notion of … Read more
It appears that nylon hose seems to fog up or get clogged up over time when you have water as hard as ours is. You can see where the water reaches quite easily. I’ve come to accept that it’s a “consumable” now, so with my latest replacement of the hose, I decided to try to … Read more
So we’ve had a fairly traditional washing machine for almost a year now. It has been working quite well for us. We can do a very full load on about a full tank of water here in the cabin, for both a wash and a single rinse. Shortly before Christmas we ran out of our … Read more
After a lovely time with my parents in Waterloo, we returned from Christmas holidays to the cabin on New Year’s Day. Grandpa had started a fire in the morning, but it had long since gone out by the time I arrived. Only 7 below isn’t bad either. It’s currently about -27 as I type this! … Read more