A Cabin in the Woods
A cabin in the woods, that’s the fantasy. A cousin of getting stranded on a desert island, I suppose. So my fantasy is sort of a mash-up: a cabin in the woods, on an island. The particular island that I have in mind, however, isn’t tropical, it’s perhaps West Coast Canada’s version of tropical (i.e. […]
Video Diaries – radX.ca/masaoffgrid
Okay, so the blogging dropped off after I began building in earnest. But the video diaries that I’m submitting to my broadcast partner, radX, have continued, Monday and Thursday of every week. Please go there instead: radX.ca/masaoffgrid. And if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a three-minute video at 30 frames per second…well, […]
Day 11
Yesterday, I had my first shower in ten days. It felt like the warmth of a thousand sunny afternoons seeping into my bones. Though I’d generally been lucky with the weather, it had still ranged from early summer sun to driving bitter rain. I’d dodged into town to use the shower of someone I knew, […]
Day 8
I thought that I’d put up the last three poles yesterday. Not only had I escaped any dreaded back-tweaking, I’d also managed to not delimb myself while delimbing some of the surrounding trees with the chainsaw. Idiotic really, the way I climbed up onto some of those rotten branches, forgetting to warm up the saw […]
Day 6
In this day and age, there’s more to homesteading than simply knocking up a cabin and kicking back with a moonshine martini. There’s connectivity to consider. Yes, an Internet connection is as important, if not more so, to those who might want to be off-grid but still of-this-world. The key, unless you want to spend […]