Buying Land

Sweet! I have a friend in oklahoma who owns about 80 acres with a natural spring. The water he bottled and brought me was fantastic! I can't drink city water without adding something, tea, drink mixes, kool-aid and such. I'm so envious! =D I've never heard of a pacific domes tent. I'll be checking out those links! From what I hear composting toilets fill fast and are hard to keep clean. I'd like to meet someone who has it before I'd go and buy one. Wood burning stoves are the best! Cast iron skillets help distribute the heat evenly and just makes an awesome meal. Oh, that's making me hungry! =D

Darkjedi: I want one of those tents so badly I sit and stare at them for hours, daydreaming and planning! I REALLY REALLY WANT ONE!!!! Did you see the decks that you can build onto them?!? NekoWashu (hehehehe, your username reminds me of 'The Irish Washerwoman' - a song I am wanting to learn how to play on the fiddle!) Anyway, yeah, I could never go back to drinking any other water. I camped for about 6 months in the wilderness preserve by my house where there was a spring coming out of the mountain... it looked like a grotto that would be inhabited by fairies! After drinking that water it is hard to settle for anything less. I have 3 cast iron skillets which I use everyday, to the exclusion of anything else... unless I am cooking soup or something liquidy. I've never used a composting toilet, but I have had to dig latrine after latrine after latrine and I do not believe that keeping the composting toilet in good order would be worse than all that digging!!!

Oooh that sounds so pretty! If the property I buy for my homestead doesn't have a grottoes or caves I plan to build my own. I think I have a link for that too, I'll make a not to uplaod it later. Inside my grottos will be a hot tub feature for a private retreat. One wall will have a connection to the koi pond (swimming pond) and I plan to dump a bunch of pretty stones, crystal geodes and clusters, and fake gold coins to reflect the light onto the ceiling of the grotto. Any fish that swim by on a sunny day will cast fish shadows on the walls though. lol The grotto will be located under my man-made waterfall feature so that the waterfall disquises the entrance. I am willing to bet any land with a natural spring is going to be expensive and hard to find. Especially since I already know I want to buy land in northern Kentucky. Maybe, if nothing else, I'll be near someone who does have it and doesn't mind sharing. I think I've heard of that song before. I think I saw it in a book of tabs for the ocarina. =)

I can't even believe I posted 2 replies here, hehehe, this was supposed to have been added to my original one! Anyway, for a moment I thought you were saying you made your own house! My daughter and I do that a lot too... draw up the floor plans and what the house will look like on the outside... that's what you're talking about right? My daughter got a computer program to do it with even.

Yep! And it changes everytime I do it cause I've found another interesting feature to add. lol I'm going to make scans and upload photos of some of them to share later today. I made plans for all the out building as well. Everytime I learn something new from my Countryside magazine or books or internet I change what I have. When you look at it that way, not having the money to build it right now is a blessing in disquise. I try to soak up all the information I can as well. I would love to see your designs, if you don't mind sharing!

I love the shelter domes link! That is gorgeous! It reflects designs of my house that I made, and gives me more inspiration. =D Thank you for sharing!