The Campfire Trail: August 20 - DIY Homestead

August 20, 2022

Day 243 of the Adventure

The State of Perpetual Improvement

When living a life that has a self-sufficiency and homestead type of focus, it's comical what you find yourself getting excited over. For example, I remember back a number of years when we had a garden and was canning produce. The fact that we had put up nearly 80 pints of picante sauce, a dozen varieties of jams and jellies, home-grown tomatoes, pickles and vegetables for use through the winter was very exciting. Shelley had found an excellent ketchup recipe with red hots as the secret ingredient. (Don't laugh, it was amazing)

Today's excitement came in the form of our Low Pressure Pipe DIY installed septic system running for the third time. Not that septic systems would normally be all that interesting or something to get excited about. It's just that it was one of the first things we initiated with the county when we got here and it's the last major piece of infrastructure that is now complete. The fact that we had never built anything quite like that, and certainly nothing like the alternative LPP system, it's exciting that it's doing exactly what it should. The second part of the excitement is that we've been waiting to bury key parts of it unil we knew it was functioning properly. It is, now it can get completely buried.

Other recent "excitables" have included the solar plant getting set up to switch itself from batteries to generator to grid on its own as different circumstances call for it. Another was getting the cabin wiring completed. Still another was reaching the point on the exterior of the cabin where we could get the log siding ordered. It's great to see progress and reach milestones in a project. The Camp Run-Amuck adventure has been a wonderful experience so far and to me the best is yet to come.

Tomorrow's excitement will be smoking Jalapeño Poppers in the smoker!

Carry On

Adventure Quote: “The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.”

― Lailah Gifty Akita

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