We had a brand new solar power system installed last year. The sun usually hits our panels around 10am, even though sun has been up for 4 hours. Great news, sun doesn’t set until 9pm. We generate enough power to watch tv, charge devices, lights and so on.
Entrance to garage on left…and the right is tool shed. As you can see, we still have a couple feet of snow. Where you see the propane tank, we have a dual fuel generator. In winter we hardly get any sun, so the generator charges our solar batteries sometimes twice a week.
Looking through the window in the distance is Indian Lake. Very messy!
Very messy house! We have propane fridge and stove. No dishwasher here except me. We get propane fill up twice a year. Today I’m making Guinness Stew.
Our bathroom has a claw foot tub, compost toilet and sink. Also housed in the bathroom are our solar batteries which need to be kept from freezing.
Couple of my bows…and a recently installed dartboard.
Main source of heat is the wood-stove, but we also have a propane furnace that is used to keep house warm when we’re not here. This prevents all our food from freezing. The big metal cylinder is a 500 gallon water tank. We draw water from the lake that we use for dishes and washing/bathing. For drinking, we filter the lake water through a Sawyer filter.Our of our two bedrooms.
Looking southeast from inside screened in porch. So much snow! Going to be a while before that canoe sees any water.Looking northwest from the porch, one of our many, many stock piles of firewood. Beyond the firewood is compost area.
