It can be cold with snow coming down hard and the people in Florida pity us but let me tell you the inside story why we are here. We have been making preparations for this all year.
While the warm weather people are going off to work so they can pay their big mortgage, food, electric, cable TV, air conditioning, condo fees, garbage and water bill... that stuff doesn’t even apply to us. We have paid off the farm years ago in the first year, we are debt free and pay off any credit card payment at the end of each month with an automatic payment, run so little electricity for what we actually use we can run with four solar panels for free electricity.
My paid for 1998 Chevy S-10 pickup truck works great and insurance costs only $33 a month. We grow, preserve, can and dehydrate more food than we can eat. We don’t have to waste gas and time to go to the store shopping, we just pick the best organic home grown food from a well filled shelf. Picking some stored golden potatoes and opening a jar of applesauce and chicken meat doesn’t create much garbage. The peels go to the worm bins which are making me free fancy potting soil for springtime. We harvest rainwater in several 550 gallon tanks for more free water than we can use.
Winter days are good for a crockpot of stew, some homemade bread, some elderberry wine and a peach cobbler all a pretty much no cost. As you read your book in the soft padded rocking chair by the fireplace you can smell all the goodness getting ready. The content cat is loving being inside licking her paws just right. I may even go for a 30 minute nature walk in the snow with the rich blue sky to come back just as everything is done. What a burst of smells greets me at the door!
After dinner it's fun to play some music or get a game of gin rummy going with your sweetie. No TV or video games are needed. Are we lucky? No, this was just our plan. Just good country living. Now go create a life plan that really works for you, so good, people say “wow, I wish I was living YOUR life!"
Our 12'x54' greenhouse stays warm all winter growing bananas, tomatoes, papyas, hibiscus, geraniums and much more.
It can look snowy but still excellent for a walk down our driveway.
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