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Solar Shed Office Part 5: Door Frames, Cleats, & Laying Multiple Courses Above Ground

Ashley Longnecker / January 06, 2021

After quite a few detours including goats, a guard puppy, the holidays, and new baby goats twins, we are officially back at it on the hyperadobe solar shed office. We started by making a plan to build a strawbale rectangle building, and changed it to a combo rectangle & dome hyperadobe building. Then we dug the foundation, and started laying the first courses.

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Baby Goat Birth - Fay Has Twins!

Ashley Longnecker / January 05, 2021

Mother goat right before delivering twins

When we purchased Fay in the beginning of December, we were told she was bred and would be due around February or possibly even January. It was a situation where the buck had gotten out much sooner than planned and bred her a little earlier than they would have liked.

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Installing Off-Grid Solar & Electrical in our Renovated Airstream: Part 2

Jonathan Longnecker / January 04, 2021

Man holding Airstream renovation electrical wiring diagram on an iPad

For us, one of the perks of renovating our vintage Airstream was that we got to design not only the interior and layout, but also the entire power system from the ground up. The first part of this series provides a high level overview on all that, so you may want to go read it first.

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2020 Recap - Looking Back At All We Did on the Homestead This Year

Jonathan Longnecker / December 29, 2020

I think it's safe to say that 2020 has been A YEAR. You may assume we transitioned from full-time traveling nomads to off-grid desert homesteaders because of all the craziness, but it turns out the seeds for this change happened 5 years ago.

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Desert Wreaths - Creating Beauty In the Desert

Ashley Longnecker / December 21, 2020

Tis the season for making the home feel cozy and warm. But what do you do when you live in the desert with no pine trees or traditional winter foliage? You use what you got and make the best of it.

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Recent Blog Articles

Solar Shed Office Part 5: Door Frames, Cleats, & Laying Multiple Courses Above Ground

Baby Goat Birth - Fay Has Twins!

Installing Off-Grid Solar & Electrical in our Renovated Airstream: Part 2

2020 Recap - Looking Back At All We Did on the Homestead This Year

Desert Wreaths - Creating Beauty In the Desert

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