Sunday, July 22, 2018

Homesteading and a single gay man

Greetings.  My name is Robert.  I recently lost my partner of almost 40 years in February 2017.  We had always talked about starting a homestead with garden, chickens and maybe a horse or two.  But all we did was talk.  Never acted.  After Donnie's passing I lost our house and had to move into the short school bus we had been remodeling together.

Life has been hard this last year after his passing but I have finally decided to start the homestead we always wanted.  There is a farm in my family and Donnie always liked visiting it.  So over the last few months I have been clearing out an area nestled back in the woods here on the farm.  Below are some pictures of the land cleared with surrounding trees.

Picture of the land I have cleared to use as the homestead.

Another picture of the cleared land.

Close up of some of the trees surrounding the homestead.

Another picture of the trees on the homestead.

I will be living in a short school bus but I am almost done with one outbuilding that I will be using for my kitchen and food storage.  I will also be using coolers and barrels I bury in the ground for cold storage of vegetables and such.  I am hoping next spring to dig me a root cellar for better food storage and for foods I plan on canning.  Below are some pictures of my school bus and outbuilding I have built. I am kinda of proud of myself for the building.  I have never built anything in my life.  I used pallets for framing the building then I got every piece of scrap lumber and plywood I could fine to finish the building out.  Thanks Mike(my nephew) for you help.
My short school bus.

Different view of the school bus.
Foundation of the outbuilding.

Side view of outbuilding.

Front view of the outbuilding.
I am almost finished with the outbuilding and will post further pictures of it a little later.

Until the next post have a blessed day.  Peace, Robert.


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