Rambling....

Well... looks like the batteries in my camera are dead, right after I took pictures of our new "bathing" room; so once we get some money I'll post the pictures(if it rains it pours right?). We decided to try to make an enclosed bathing room with what we had on hand so we could have a semi warm bathroom. We have a canvas tarp that we have wrapped around two sides of our former outdoor kitchen roof. We have it up against the back end of our shed with a piece of the tent and a blanket to block the wind there and a normal tarp on the "door" side. We put the lamp we used to brood our chicks from New York, to help warm the room. We still have to dump the tub out so the "floor" is a piece of OSB with a rug on it and we dump away from the floor. With heating water it takes about 3 hours to prep a bath, but at least now we don't have to worry about cross winds or people seeing us now that our leaves are falling off the trees. We have decided to buy our "potty chair" from habitat as when we checked out their store in Springfield they were $3 a piece... muuuuch cheaper that buying one new at $70 for the cheapest. Then we are going to buy a 5 gallon bucket to use instead of the "cup" it has on it so I can change it less often. Having the sawdust toilet means the 2 and 1/2 ft (approximately) cesspool Silver dug will work for our kitchen sink for the winter. We just need to set up a curtain for the toilet for privacy(what's that?)

We are going to walk the whole of our property once all the leaves are off the trees completely so we can see if there would be a good spot aside from the foundation to put our house as now we are thinking we don't want to be so close to the road anymore. One day when we came home from spending an hour looking for an open laundromat (ever one was closed) our "Ruby Ridge" neighbor (the first one on the street) was walking up from the back of our shed. Seems he was searching for his chainsaw and thought we had it... actually started yelling at Silver about it until Silver told him that his neighbor behind him had it. Silver even drove him down and showed it to him, the man did apologize, but that wasn't the end of it. The one who had it was the woman who moved out here with her family and they left her on the property so they could live in the city. Well a couple days after "Ruby Ridge" came by complaining about the chain saw, the second neighbor's husband (back for his weekly visit) came to ask us how we knew the chain saw was on his property. Made it sound like we were "scoping out" his property and not-so-politely told us to not go near his property or wife again, because she thinks people are wanding her property and implied it was us... well.. to say the least Silver was not happy about that and surprisingly didn't toss the man off of our property just told him to leave and not come back. Then a few days later we made sure that we no longer had any of the first man's tools so we can avoid both sets of people. I mean why would these people think we want to scope out a piece of property that has piles of trash on it.. yes we need building materials... but we aren't that desperate!

Oh well...

Be Well all and Blessed Be...