tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16023827279540143332024-02-08T09:38:02.296-08:00Homesteading-ArizonaLiving Off Grid in the Desertbwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-59406968512810190202014-09-21T11:50:00.002-07:002015-04-26T13:37:06.074-07:00Bad Things HappenedI haven't posted for awhile, didn't know what to say or do. Shortly after our 18th my wife left me. I had to sort it out in my head and come to terms with it. I don't know if i will continue to blog our not. So far i am just keeping on doing the homestead. A week after she left my job got out sourced, so it's been fun times on the homestead. Good thing i don't need much or want much. This week i am filing for divorce. Hope things are better for all you folks.bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-86537030608014785862014-07-31T10:41:00.001-07:002014-07-31T10:45:02.338-07:00Summer Killed a large mojave today it looks smaller in the picture but is almost 4 feet long, has 20 rattles on its tail.<br />
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This is the start of a dust storm we had saturday evening, the sky turned orange.<br />
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This is celery we have grown from seed, First time we have had it grow.<br />
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Melon's are just about ripe for picking!!<br />
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Our strawberries have been producing since spring and are still going strong.<br />
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This is this year turkey chicks, we have more eggs in the incubator right now, hope they hatch.<br />
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<br />bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-26968424863484571502014-07-13T21:56:00.000-07:002014-07-13T21:56:59.861-07:00Cactus BloomOne of the cactus Amy planted bloomed today, It looks really nice and adds some color to the homestead.<br />
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Here is a double rainbow from a evening shower<br />
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Laying in the water line from the well to our water tank, The old garden tractor sure saved a lot of digging using the plow.<br />
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bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-61633283190141322512014-07-13T02:04:00.001-07:002014-07-13T02:06:11.973-07:00Saturday was our 18th Wedding AnniversaryWe have been together for 19 years total but married for 18, looking forward to our next 18 years :)bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-40660217352665920762014-07-05T20:44:00.001-07:002014-07-05T20:45:32.084-07:00Start of MonsoonA few things have happened since my last post, had a bad wind storm that took down my wind generator and broke the blades. The problem was i wasn't deep enough in the ground and it up rooted it like a tree.<br />
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The new blades installed and a deeper hole dug now the gen is flying once more!!</div>
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The wife's new solar powered clothes dryer, the wind destroyed our umbrella style one.<br />
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The garden is growing so good, we have been over run with produce, looking forward to our melons getting ripe!<br />
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Made a new adjustable solar panel mount, works great now our panels are getting sun as soon as it raises.<br />
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Moved everything into this little shed and shortened my wire runs all is working great now.<br />
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I am currently building a solar dehydrator and will post it as soon as it is finished. Also we are planning on building a greenhouse at the end of the month. Also in the works is a wood gasifier to run a 7kw onan generator, this unit will be used to run the well pump and be our back up power for the homestead. </div>
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Me milking our goats with a milker from Dansha Farms, much easier then hand milking</div>
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Our drip system i made for watering our Fig tree's and Raspberries and Blackberries<br />
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Our spring garden, we have already been picking kale and collard greens<br />
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Our new baby goats they are so much fun and love attention<br />
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Notice the white fur on the side it makes an A.<br />
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New baby lamb. These are barbados black bellies.<br />
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<br />bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-77360058571215178132014-02-08T10:38:00.003-08:002014-02-08T10:38:49.500-08:00The Wild, Wild WestYesterday my wife was in Bisbee at the thrift store and she heard this guy screaming at another guy then gunshots rang out, Within minutes there was a ton of police including border patrol, a swat team and the army blocking the road, The guy was screaming they will have to kill him but a few hours later he gave up, Don't know if the other guy is alive or dead.<br />
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Here is the baby lambs we been bottle feeding, they will be big enough to wean next month.<br />
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We have started getting the garden planted, this year we are adding Strawberries, Blackberries, Himrod seedless grapes and Concord grapes.bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-15385904545920387672014-01-30T09:04:00.001-08:002014-01-30T09:04:27.665-08:00Updates to the HomesteadI know i haven't been posting for awhile, The well needs to be taken deeper, not enough water, we are hiring a different well driller, the other guy sucks. We had great holidays here at the homestead and everything has returned to normal. We are bottle feeding two baby lambs lol, and we finally got baby bunnies :)<br />
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Our weather has been really mild here this winter, we only had some snow once. Garden is growing good just having a problem with birds in it this year.<br />
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Will post more later.bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-17533394485160485862013-09-27T14:53:00.000-07:002013-09-27T14:54:23.783-07:00That is what you call an RV ClarkOur neighbors no longer wanted there camper so they gave it to us for free and even free delivery!!!<br />
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This is High Lonesome Road<br />
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This is Showdown Road<br />
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This is the driveway<br />
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Truck sunk in driveway<br />
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<br />bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-72048730383469033232013-08-27T10:52:00.003-07:002013-08-27T10:52:41.348-07:00Final Total On IncubatorWell the other eggs didnt hatch only had the six, Better then nothing tho :)bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-88497763112837288892013-08-26T13:43:00.002-07:002013-08-26T13:43:46.976-07:00Our Eggs Are Hatching!!Well the off grid homemade incubator is doing its job, we started having chicks hatching last night, six so far and all have lived that has hatched at this point :)<br />
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Well post the final results when all is donebwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-77121112231277944682013-08-16T19:04:00.004-07:002013-08-16T19:04:39.236-07:00Our New LambsThis morning when we got up had 2 new baby lambs!! They sure are cute, they are getting around real good now.<br />
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<br />bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-72258736053279035862013-08-06T09:22:00.000-07:002013-08-06T09:22:26.447-07:00Homemade Egg IncubatorWe decided we needed an incubator to hatch chickens and turkeys here on the homestead, Our main problem is we our off grid and depend on or small solar array which is 620 watts and a 450 watt wind generator for our power. We store our power in a 675 amp hour battery bank.<br />
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There was no way we could use most of the incubators that are sold being they require around 225 watts to operate. I did my research and found a neat little controller that has 40 watt heater, digital controls, fan and being digital its heater reduces power to as low as 10 watts once the incubator is at the preset temperature of 99.5 degrees and best of all its 12 volts!! Perfect for our needs.<br />
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I made the incubator out of scrap material i had on hand, i made a semi-automatic egg turner so we don't have to open the box to turn the eggs twice a day. The only thing i had to purchase was the incukit dc controller, it was $49.99.<br />
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Yesterday we started it up, it reached its preset temp of 99.5 degrees in 20 minutes, we then loaded it with fresh eggs from our chickens, it held 25 eggs. The egg turner is a simple rack with dowel rods that the eggs sit between, made a push/pull handle that is pinned for easy removal. All i do is either push or pull the handle to turn the eggs twice a day, real simple and easy. We should have our first batch of chicks in 21 days!!<br />
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<br />bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-65164373813489528032013-07-31T20:53:00.003-07:002013-07-31T21:00:19.093-07:00Garden SnakeFound this large Arizona Glossy Snake in our garden, I relocated him so it wouldn't scare the wife lol.<br />
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Garden has been doing great, We enjoyed our first melon of the season, we have canned over 200 jars of food and still doing more. We are on our second planting of corn and beans also.<br />
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<br />bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-57740399099211855322013-06-13T00:15:00.000-07:002013-06-13T00:15:06.541-07:00A lot going on here at the HomesteadSorry for my lack of post lately, as you all know we had a well put in, it is now 4 months later since he started and 3 days ago he started drilling us a new well, he had the well finished which turned out to be 260 feet deep, we had water and all was good until he broke the pump off in the well, he failed to install a safety line to the pump. Long story made short, he could not get any of it back after several weeks so the new well is being drillled at his expense.<br />
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Now for some good news :) Our turkeys have been hatching out and they are doing great!! The garden is growing like a jungle here in the desert lol, Amy has been canning for the last couple of weeks and is doing it again starting tomorrow. She is also going to be making relish and mulberry jelly, yummmm.<br />
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Our goats should be having kids at the end of July and our sheep should be having lambs at the end of August. So far knock on wood i have not seen any rattlesnakes around the house yet. Last year at this time i had already killed several Mojave Rattlers. I did catch a friendly little Arizona Glossy Snake he was in our house!!! We also have the biggest horned lizzard i have seen out here living in our garden, he is huge. Looks like a little dinosaur lol.<br />
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Here are some pictures of whats happening around the Homestead<br />
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<br />bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-18677946549024135012013-03-25T19:04:00.000-07:002013-03-25T19:04:14.725-07:00Homestead UpdateThe well is a little slow going, he hit river sand at 12 feet and it was over 60 feet deep before he got out of it, he had to add alot of benoite to his drill water to shore up the well walls so he could drill. He thinks we will hit water tomorrow he is down to 115 foot and in rock. He is going to take the well down to 250 feet.<br />
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We added 3 sheep to our homestead as well the young one is 5 months old and we will be butchering him in about 3 months, The ram and ewe is our pair for breeding.<br />
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And finally we have part of the garden in and we had a good winter crop as well.<br />
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Today is so windy here we cant do anything outside, over 30 mph with gust of 50 mph and its cold!bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-28887733038753778022013-02-21T17:51:00.000-08:002013-02-21T17:51:32.387-08:001st Year Anniversary Off GridToday marks one full year here on the homestead, Mother nature decided we needed another winter storm, The kids loved it and school was let out early yesterday and delayed today. Last night we made snow cream for after dinner dessert.<br />
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We are finally getting a well next week YAY!!! We used our tax refund to get that done, what a difference in our lifes that will make here, no more hauling water in 55 gallon barrels. I added 2 more batteries to the battery bank now we have 675 amp hour battery bank, the new xantrex charge controller is working great, it had no problem charging up the bank even with 2 more batteries.<br />
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<br />bwinglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03384537486388085965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1602382727954014333.post-29970019820720117322013-02-14T10:42:00.000-08:002013-02-14T10:51:29.429-08:00Old Timer Wagon TravelerMeet a really interesting fellow today named Gene, He is traveling the United States from coast to coast in his mule powered covered wagon, there is not hardly a free spot on the cover to sign it lol. I filled up his water for him and gave him 1/2 dozen of eggs and some grapefruit. It was interesting hearing his stories. His mules are really cool also. Wonder how many miles he gets to the gallon lol.<br />
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Also is a picture of one of our nosy goats and the new puppies.<br />
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