Saturday, March 31, 2012

Water Hauling And Our Dogs

Today we went to the Elfrida Garden Show, it was nice and we learned some new things there. Also i made a water run we was running low on drinking water. It was a nice day sunny and warm. Tomorrow is suppose to be real windy. Our turkey hen has 20 eggs in here nest, lol wonder how many more she will lay. Also is a picture of our dogs out here.



Monday, March 26, 2012

Chickens and Turkeys




Here is is our chickens and turkeys, one turkey hen has 12 eggs in her nest and one chicken has 4.


Snow in the Desert!




Last week we had a snow storm here in the desert!


What a view we had here.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Our Power Plant

Adding our solar panels:




Our array is 480 watts with a 470 amp hour battery bank and a 1000 watt inverter, we are running a 22 inch lcd tv, satellite dish, dvd player, laptop, tablet, charging ipod and cell phones, xbox, chest freezer converted to a fridge, and lights 10 watt cfl's. We also have a 450 watt wind generator from gudcraft that i have not installed yet.

Framing our home

Starting to work on our home, adding a front door to the inside of the steel building.


Adding walls to our off grid home.







Our Cross Country Move from Georgia to Arizona

Day 1 of our road trip, first day was 499 miles and we stopped at the motel 6 in Monroe, La.


Day 2 of our move was from Monroe, La to Abilene, Tx 465 miles.


Day 3 of our move was from Abilene, Tx to Las Cruces, Nm 498 miles.


Day 4 was from Las Cruces, Nm to our homestead 237 miles.