Done Slid Off Grid

08/07/2024

Thanks to my niece for the sexy windshield lettering. Carrie Roberson awesome job.

14/06/2024

So, we got a fine schedule the other day from our HOA Management company (Evernest). In the fine schedule was this clause. "Any homeowner within the community may note a violation and report it in writing to the Homeowners Association Board."
We never agreed to any such activity in our closing documents, however, a local realtor stated that it was "standard practice in HOA's".
For those of you that have HOA's, is this indeed "standard practice".
For those that don't have HOA's, what's your thoughts.

21/05/2024

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21/05/2024

So, yesterday was a day to reboot. After we milked the goats and did our chores, we spent the day at Pathfinder Dam and spent the day on the beach. It was pretty windy and a bit chilly...we had a blast resting, feeding the birds and rock hounding.We also took a minute to check out Fremont Canyon, beautiful.

07/04/2024

Phenix

07/04/2024

So, you might be a goat mom if.......
This is 1 of 4 critters Louise had. We named her Phenix. We started bottle feeding her just in time.

31/03/2024

Sooooo, this video clip is about a Nigerian Dwarf buck we have that is quite the ladies man. His name is Houdini, but, we call him Houdoneit. As close as we could count there are 15 babies in this video. The babies are from 7 different moms. He fathered all of these critters since last summer. I think we need to get him registered.
Houdoneit is in the pen with all of his babies "only for this video". We took him out straight away after the group video, just in case anybody was wondering.

20/03/2024

busy day on the farm today. Two does had babies. Jolene, had triplets and Cindy had twins....all girls. Cindy has her two cleaned off and dried. Jolene is still working on getting her three cleaned up.

18/03/2024

So, the sun was full blast, temp in the mid 60's. Beautiful day to wash clothes using the Maytag 1930's wringer washer. This critter was alot of fun. My mother had one when we were teenagers. My 'lil sister and I loved to watch mother wash clothes.

Since we are off grid and depend on solar panels and batteries, we are always concerned about our energy budget and how much power everything uses. The washer uses 580-640 watts. Not too bad.

17/03/2024

sooooooo, Mae finally had her babies tonight. She had triplets, cute 'Lil critters.

12/03/2024

So, we got to witness the mating ritual of turkeys today. Clearly more to it than with chickens. We have 3 Slate Blue hens that were all strutting around Mr. Ganzik. He is a Narragansett Standard Bronze tom. Kind of interesting to watch. We observed him mounting two of the three hens. He stood on their backs for quite some time. Crazy.

turkey style

10/03/2024

So, here is the first baby kid born in 2024. Her mom , Bootsie Tootsie, was the first born in 2023. Baby's name is Tootie Fruity

13/09/2023

finally making progress on the roof. West side done, jumping on the East side now.

13/09/2023

Making progress, finally got the West side of the barn roof on. Sure has been a long, frustrating process.

12/09/2023

baby Muscovy ducks. Two so far.

01/09/2023

Sooooo, finally got the South gable finished just as the wind speed started its daily ramp up. Today wind speed went from a very calm 4 mph to 28 mph in about 15 minutes.

29/08/2023

So, today was a productive day getting some metal on the South gable of the barn. I have been dreading the South gable for a while. We are in crunch time now, we have to finish the South gable before we can put a lid on this critter. We started the barn around the end of October 2022.

29/08/2023

26/08/2023

So, we took some time today for a photo shoot to introduce our current and future milk goats. We have a combination of a few different breeds. Current milkers are 2 ADGA registered Lamancha does (Lady & Jolene), 1 ADGA registered Saanen doe (Chiffon) and 1 Nubian (Cinnamon), her milk goes for our coffee and tea enjoyment. 5 future Nigerian Dwarf doeling babies that we have started stanchion training and their 3 mama's in addition to 3 Nubian/Boer mix.

Whoever said "don't cry over spilt milk" never got their milk one squeeze at a time...sad face

07/08/2023

today was a reboot kind of day. Ms. Annette and I went to the Ayres Natural Bridge just outside of Douglas, Wyoming and spent a few hours relaxing, taking a picnic and acting crazy on the Hang Drum and Didgeridoo. Enjoy the journey space fans.

07/08/2023

today was a reboot kind of day. Ms. Annette and I went to the Ayres Natural Bridge just outside of Douglas, Wyoming and spent a few hours relaxing, taking a picnic and acting crazy on the Hang Drum and Didgeridoo. Enjoy the journey space fans.

28/07/2023

Soooooo, we have had millions of grasshoppers, millions of Mormon Crickets, millions of flies and now billions of red flying ants. Top this off with temps in the 90's. Argh

18/07/2023

So, we finally got the invasion of Mormon Crickets here on the ranch. Thousands of these creepy, huge crickets. The live post from the other day was just the beginning on our ranch. They have gotten worse and we are taking revenge. We are going around collecting the 'lil fu$% #^@ in a pail and are feeding them to the hogs, quail, chickens, duck and turkey.

24/06/2023

Hahaha, so we built a couple of pens for our new baby goats (kids). 52" tall, we thought it would be good enough to contain the kids. Not so much.

22/06/2023

So, today is a mixed feeling, sad kinda day.... daylight hours are going to gradually decrease from now until Dec 21st, the Winter Soltice. Ranchers and farmers all dread losing valuable daylight. There is always so much to do. It is also a signal to off grid folks to buckle down and accelerate getting ready for winter.

16/06/2023

So, if life doesn't seem to be complicated enough...we are starting a YouTube channel. There isn't much content yet, but that will change. Come check us out... and subscribe. Enjoy the journey

Check out JP and Annette as we build a very challenging but rewarding life off grid. We are on our third year off grid, moved once and are building a farm/ra...

14/06/2023

Thelma's twins, Cleo and Cloe