#off_grid — Public Fediverse posts
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People get the wrong idea when I relate my experience of living off-grid, miles away from other humans, deep in the wilderness of the mountains in Humboldt, California.
Somehow, it just doesn't click that no, there's no roads Trails, and things resembling road like passages cut by people with properties using their own tractors and excavators, sure. You dare not go anywhere farther than you wish to hike unless you bring a chainsaw with you; failure to do so means you might not be driving back after a couple of trees decide to fell themselves across the path.
Food, the mornings were fun and interesting. I would start by filling the firebox in my Stanley cooker with Doug fir, oak, and madrone. It takes a good 20 minutes or so before the kettle begins to billow steam, a few minutes after that it's boiling - during that time you've been grinding the coffee beans by hand with the big circular crank on the wall-mounted grinder. Then you pour the boiling water into the coffee press and turn your attention to breakfast sizzling away in the video below.
You'll probably need to add more wood to the firebox, it's not a very efficient stove the furnace in the main room, but it does burn hot enough to turn all that iron into a giant griddle - if you're really adventurous you can try to bake a cake in the oven. It's an art to keep the oven consistently at the desired temperature, and... that's part of the fun too.
So what else were you really going to do in the hour and a half it took to make breakfast? Next? We tend to the garden, then later we travel about bucking up logs and felling trees for the coming winter.
#tallship #off_grid #homesteading #Humboldt #wildnerness
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Is #outer_space the last frontier?... May be not...
The #caves are another world. Inner space is the (real one) #last_frontier.
#off_grid radio comms over #LoRa ... the #Meshtastic dance floor.
Full #meshtastic_mesh over "router" role #nodes?... don´t worry... inner space is a strange dimension...
But with an MQTT bridge connectivity could be unlimited... Even to the Earth! 😉
https://gescam.radiomakers.org/doku.php?id=actividades:ide:comunicaciones:lora#noviembre_de_2025
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Home biotch!
Home, home again.
I like to be here when I can.
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day, the paperboy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You rearrange me 'til I'm sane
You lock the door and throw away the key
And there's someone in my head, but it's not me
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
And all that you love
And all that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say
And all that you eat
And everyone you meet (everyone you meet)
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
#tallship #Pink_Floyd #Home #Brain_Damage #Thurisaz #dark_side_of_the_moon #safe_and_fucking_sound #off_grid #Humboldt_Mountain_Magic #Emerald_Triangle #be_happy
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I've heard it's really g-narly, but I'll wait, because I don't have television reception and I like to #binge_watch anyway, and really... I can't stand, and actually have PTSD from when I was a kid and had to listen to, "Same Bat time, same Bat channel", on a black and white television...
Waiting for next week?
I'll just d/l the whole season all at once and invite my friend Jack Daniels over for the entire season in one or two nights 👯🤸💃🚀
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