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Post by dzonoqua on Mar 14, 2006 16:32:01 GMT -5
Hi!--I've been following the Discovery channel trying to find people moving "right now" to homestead in the bush. This seems unrealistic to me(I'm sure they;ll find someone with bucks who'll want to be on tv, but then those people won't be true homesteaders who have that wild look in their eye, that gnawing do or die to get out of suburbia...)We moved to our place 5 years ago, we saved and scraped to buy our house and 10 acres(forest). We've logged and cleared a few acres, built our garden(with the 12' deer fence), got chickens, cut and cut and cut wood. But it's taken five years, and that's not even building a house. And we still have to work for a living(like, to pay off the house?) It's a time and money thing.
Anyways, I was just curious how long it took you to make the transition. We always wanted a place to live in the woods, it took a couple years (working three jobs) to save a down payment, and we bought a low-end place(sort-of a small fixer upper). And it's taken 5 years working around working, to accomplish what we have.
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Post by dorightranch on Mar 17, 2006 15:33:08 GMT -5
Where are you? Sorry, I can't remember. It sounds like things are coming together for you. We bought a "fixer-upper" too, on the Kenai Peninsula. There's a big cabin. It's built on stumps. (We're okay with that because we our farmhouse in Northern Arizona was also built on stumps). Our Alaska house floor has had considerable frost heave damage. One of the stumps has heaved up and is 1 foot above the broken floor boards in the living room area. We will have to pull up the floor, shore up the foundation and replace the floor. There is no subfloor and the existing flooring has wide gaps in it making for a cold, breezy winter. That's the major thing we have to fix before our next winter there. There is a major amount of clearing and clean-up that needs to be done as it's been let go for a long time. There are a lot of fallen trees (firewood). We need insulation and a better stove... we need so much but it's a labor of love. Sharon
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