Week 3 - whoo hoo!

Surrounded by breathtaking scenery (yes that's a resident hawk in the pic), we began week 3...

First up was solar...complete with a temporary solar array while we await permits for our permanent solar structure...stupid bureaucrats!

The grownups built some too!

And now for the panels...

 

And next to build the storage area for the really freakin' heavy batteries!!!

We start 'em young baby!

Ahh..the finished project...by this time next week, we'll have it wired and will have the ultimate luxury, nary to be taken for granted...hot...yes that's right folks...hot water!!  Woot woot.

Next...drumroll please....dah dah dah dah!!! GRAVEL!

Our best friend ever...Mr. Dumptruck....just ask the 6 year old boy who watched in wide eyed wonder as gravel was delivered and dumped...

 

Final product?  Our very own zen garden.

What have we learned??????

Dust is evil-gravel is not (even with gravel, if godliness is truly next to cleanliness...we're screwed); crickets are totally harmless but quite possibly the ugliest bugs ever; this many plant based eaters need FOUR not TWO sanicans; dumptrucks are super cool and we want one of our very own; we need about 8 more hours in a day; and... there's nothing better at the end of a long day then sitting on your own property watching the stars as moonlight bathes the horizon!

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." 

Oscar Wilde