As you all know, we are in the process of building a tiny cabin in the mountains of Western North Carolina. It is approximately 120 square feet with a sleeping loft, a living room, a dining area a kitchen and a bathroom. It is entirely off the grid using water catchment and solar power. We are building it as a retreat, but we want to be ( Read more... )

We have some updated photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13073825@N07/tags/asheville/Read more... )

oneandonlymatt and I were finally able to catch the Les Stroud special "Off the Grid with Les Stroud" last night. You may remember him from his show "Survivorman", which is honestly one of my favorites. After people learn that we are building our own off the grid cabin in the woods one of the next questions is typically "Have you ever seen that special that ( Read more... )

Had a great weekend in Asheville. I'm not sure I have ever had a bad weekend there. oneandonlymatt actually left for Asheville last Monday and spent the week up there doing some work. The plan for me was to drive up on Saturday and stay until Sunday when we would both come home ( Read more... )

I wanted to at least come by and post the link to Flickr for the most up to date photos of the Tumbleweed House ( Read more... )

oneandonlymatt and I went back up to Asheville this weekend to do some more work on the house. We got there Friday night like we normally do, went to bed and got up early to start working ( Read more... )

I just wanted to stop by and post the link to flickr for more photos ( Read more... )

So, we last left our heroine watching oneandonlymatt cart 30 bags of concrete up the logging trail to our Tumbleweed Clearing. Well, after that we made some lunch (we had brought steaks and brussel sprouts for dinner on Saturday but decided to go out instead, so I made them for lunch instead). It was just the fuel we needed. We took ourselves back up to the ( Read more... )

oneandonlymatt and I are up at Mt. Matt working on the foundation for the house. We have been very pleased with our progress and are planning to stay as late as we need to tonight to get all the cement done. (Hooray for good weather ( Read more... )

So, back to building. This weekend we were joined by our faithful friend Chad who really loves helping us with our project. And the goal for this weekend was digging the holes for the concrete piers and then pouring those piers. Well, the weather conspired against us and we were only able to dig the holes, but I still call that a success. It ( Read more... )