🎆 Happy New Year from Plateau Hame de Colquhoun LLC – A Look Back at 2025
Happy New Year from all of us here at **Plateau Hame de Colquhoun LLC**! As we step into a brand-new year, we want to take a moment to look back on **2025** — a year that challenged us deeply, changed us forever, and reminded us why community truly matters.
This past year has been one of the **hardest and most emotional** of our lives. We faced countless hurdles, unknowns, fears, and major changes. At times, the road ahead felt impossible. But together, we continue to **survive, adapt, and overcome** — one step at a time, one sunrise in the desert at a time.
🌵 A Growing Desert Family
In **September**, we began a new journey by sharing our lives on **TikTok**, opening a window into off-grid desert living, creativity, music, and real conversations. Since then, our **desert family has grown beyond anything we could have imagined**.
Even if you don’t live here in the New Mexico desert, you are part of this community. Our livestreams on **Colquhoun Entertainment** wouldn’t be what they are without you. Your presence, comments, encouragement, and shared laughter mean more than words can say.
🎶 Music in the Desert & Creative Survival
One of the brightest lights in a difficult year has been **Music in the Desert** — a place where music, laughter, bonfires, and real connection come together. Through **Music in the Desert**, live streams, hosted by **Advocatus Diaboli and Melodious, with special appearances of the Grim Leafer Band**, we’ve been able to turn hardship into art and stress into sound.
Music has helped us heal, helped us keep moving forward, and helped us stay connected when life felt overwhelming.
🏕️ Gratitude Beyond Words
We want to thank:
* Our **campers** at **Ka-Hoon Campground**
* Everyone who attended events at **Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center**
* Our online friends and supporters
* Our **Offgrid Talk** community
* Everyone who stood by us during our most frightening moments
This year tested us in unimaginable ways — including a terrifying medical emergency when **Brent suffered a stroke**, and we almost lost him. It was a time filled with fear, uncertainty, and long nights. The love and support we received during that period will never be forgotten.
🌅 Looking Toward 2026
While 2025 was incredibly hard, it also showed us how strong this community truly is. As we move into **2026**, we do so with hope — hope for healing, stability, creativity, and brighter days ahead.
From all of us at:
* **Plateau Hame de Colquhoun LLC**
* **Colquhoun Entertainment**
* **Ka-Hoon Campground**
* **Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center**
* **Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band**
* **Music in the Desert**
* **Offgrid Talk**
✨ **Thank you for being part of our journey. Happy New Year. Here’s to a better 2026.** ✨
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Day 2 Off-Grid Solar Build + New Year’s Music in the Desert LIVE Tonight!
**Day 2 of the Solar Build at Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center**
Day 2 of our solar build is underway here at **Ka-Hoon Campground** and **Ka-Hoon Event Center**, and like most off-grid projects, planning hasn’t been as simple as it looked on paper.
When we purchased our solar setup, it came with a metal frame designed to be bolted together. What it didn’t include were the pipes needed to hold the frame upright. The challenge? We can purchase the pipe, but hauling **22-foot lengths** out to our off-grid location just isn’t possible for us.
Our first solution was to buy shorter pipe sections, have them threaded, and connect them together. Unfortunately, the local pipe place doesn’t offer threading services and doesn’t carry the connectors we’d need. With limited options and no way to fabricate the parts ourselves, we had to pivot once again.
So **Day 2 became all about problem-solving** — rethinking the mounting system and figuring out a setup that works with our tools, transport limitations, and off-grid reality. Today’s plan is to move forward with **building and assembly** now that we have a clearer direction.
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## **Music in the Desert – New Year’s Party Update**
As we continue the build, we’re also finalizing plans for **Music in the Desert**. We’re still dialing in the best start time for **tonight’s New Year’s Party**, but right now it’s looking like **8 PM MST**.
Join us live on **TikTok and YouTube via Colquhoun Entertainment** as we ring in the New Year with music, creativity, and off-grid vibes. Hosted by **Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band**, with **Melodious** keeping things flowing, this will be a celebration you won’t want to miss.
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## **Join Us for Offgrid Talk – Every Morning**
Don’t forget to join us **every morning at 8 AM MST** for **Offgrid Talk**, streaming live on **TikTok @ColquhounEntertainment**.
**Offgrid Talk** is a relaxed, open conversation space where you can:
* Ask questions about off-grid living
* Share advice or ideas
* Hang out with a welcoming community
Hosted by **Melodious**, everyone is welcome — whether you’re fully off-grid, just curious, or somewhere in between.
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### Stay Connected
Follow **Colquhoun Entertainment**, **Music in the Desert**, and **Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band** for updates on events, solar build progress, and daily livestreams from **Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center**.
We look forward to seeing you live tonight and every morning on **Offgrid Talk** 🌵🎶
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This Is NOT a Normal Band! Live Animatronic Desert Concert TONIGHT | 5 PM MST
**Music in the Desert – Live Line Concert | Today 5 PM MST**
### 🎸 Live Music Tonight in the Desert – Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band
If you’re looking for something different, strange, fun, and unforgettable, **Music in the Desert** is streaming **LIVE today at 5 PM MST** featuring **Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band**.
This is not your typical concert. Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band is a **one-of-a-kind animatronic line concert**, blending dark humor, original music, parody, and theatrical performance — all performed live from the New Mexico desert.
### 📍 Where to Watch
🎥 **YouTube Channel:** *Plateau Hame De Colquhoun*
🕔 **Time:** Today at **5:00 PM MST**
🌵 **Location:** Music in the Desert – Plateau Hame de Colquhoun
Watch from anywhere in the world or experience the show in person at the campground.
### 🤖 Meet the Band
* **Advocatus Diaboli** – Frontman & creator
* **Blunt** – Skeleton keyboardist
* **Roach** – Mohawk-wearing skeleton drummer
* **Spliff** – Grim Reaper guitarist
http://www.advocatusdiaboliandthegrimleaferband.com
Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band
Together, they deliver a live performance that feels like a real band — because it *is* run like one — just with animatronics, storytelling, and a gothic edge.
### 🔥 Why You Don’t Want to Miss This
* Live animatronic concert experience
* Original songs & dark humor
* Desert atmosphere like no other
* Free livestream on YouTube
* Independent, underground, and unapologetically different
Whether you’re a fan of alternative music, gothic aesthetics, or just want to see something completely unique, **Music in the Desert** delivers.
### 📺 Join Us Live
👉 **Subscribe & watch:** *YouTube – Plateau Hame De Colquhoun*
🎶 **Show starts at 5 PM MST sharp**
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Music in the Desert LIVE! New Originals & Parodies | Advocatus Diaboli Full Concert Dec 27
Today was all about preparation as we set up the **stage, sound, and lighting** for this Saturday’s **Music in the Desert concert** featuring **Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band**. From dialing in the sound to lighting the desert stage, everything is coming together for a one-of-a-kind live performance.
The show will feature hilarious parodies alongside **debuting never-before-heard original songs**. If you love underground music, creative performances, and something truly different, this is a concert you won’t want to miss.
📅 **Saturday, December 27th**
⏰ **5 PM MST**
📍 **Live on YouTube – Plateau Hame De Colquhoun**
👉 https://youtube.com/@colquhounentertainment
Music by Advocatus Diaboli and the Grim Leafer Band
Title: No Tomorrows
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We Live in the Desert—But Nights Like This Make It All Worth It 🌕✨🐾
🌌 Life in the Desert: Night Skies, Cool Air, and Canine Joy
One of the things I absolutely love about living in the desert is the breathtaking view of the night sky. Out here, far from city lights and surrounded by open space, the stars put on a show every night. With little to no light pollution, it’s easy to get lost staring into the cosmos — planets, constellations, and sometimes even meteor showers.
Daytime in the desert is a whole different story. With temperatures climbing well over 100 degrees, we tend to go dormant during the heat of the day, focusing on ways to stay cool and conserve energy. Even the dogs know to take it easy. The sand gets scorching hot, so they usually lounge in the shade or stay indoors until things cool off.
But when the sun goes down? That’s when the magic happens.
As the desert starts to cool, we all come back to life. The dogs race around the yard, tails wagging, chasing shadows and each other. We sit outside, soaking in the cooler air, watching the sky transition from golden sunsets to deep star-filled black. It’s peaceful, grounding, and absolutely beautiful.
**Last night’s view was especially breathtaking.** The mostly full moon lit up the desert, casting soft shadows and adding a silvery glow to everything. It made sitting outside completely worth it — the kind of night that reminds you why you live out here. The stars still sparkled, but that moon stole the show.
Sometimes we go live on TikTok to share this little slice of desert life — the calm, the stars, the moon, and the dogs doing what dogs do best: playing under the night sky.
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Ka-Hoon Plateau hame de Colquhoun
Some may notice a few differences.. We are still Plateau Hame De Colquhoun, but we will be going by Ka-Hoon, which is how Colquhoun is pronounced.. You may even notice that the Art of tiny living page has been renamed. It will become Life with the Colquhoun page. (I screwed up and gave it the wrong name, and now I have to wait 30 days to change it.
We are doing this all as it’s easier to pronounce Ka-hoon and shorter. We no longer do the Tiny living stuff, so thereno reason to keep it. We will also be making changes to the website.
We’ve had so many people contact us asking us to do more lives. We aim at doing lives a few times a week here on Facebook on the “wrong named page” Ka-Hoon Campground and on the Plateau Hame De Colquhoun YouTube channel. We hope to add Tiktok soon.
Don’t forget we have the NM 2024 Nomad Gathering in the Desert coming up and have a few more exciting events that we’ll be releasing soon! So please stay tuned, like this post, and follow us!!
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Dogs morning routine
It’s Monday already. We have a few things planned today if the weather permits.
Advocatus Diaboli is supposed to come over and rehearse. A few neighbors are supposed to come and work on a project, which can be done as long as it doesn’t get windy.
I’m still working on my crochet project. I was able to figure out a way to make 2 at once. I probably been done with 2 yesterday, but idk why I kept screwing up and had to keep restarting.
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Repairing the Hut that hosts the compost toilet.
We had a nice warm, sunny, very little wind Saturday.
Which made an almost perfect day to put the roof on the hut. We had purchased the Hut on the market place, the builder had reporpused corgated tin. The tin had screw holes that leaked. Inside the hut is a compost toilet.
We had a camper give us some commercial refrigerator sealant tubes that we used to fill the holes.
After sealing the holes, we placed a sheet of osb over the tin.
While we worked, the dogs hung outside with us, did some sun bathing, and watched.
Brent is attaches the OSB, getting the roof ready for the next step.
The little solar panel attached to the hut is for a small charging station and runs the lights inside.
A neighbor had some extra rubber roofing that we sealed with the refrigerator sealant.
While putting the rubber roof, after putting the sealant on it, a gust of wind hit, and we found out that sealant gets stringy and goes all over.
We all ended up getting covered in the sealant…
But we did get it finished and headed into town for a shower.
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Nomad Gathering registration
The NM 2024 Nomad Gathering in the Desert registration is now available on the website.
You do not need to pre register, Gare sales will be available at no extra cost. All Gate sales campsites are first come first serve.
For more information about us at the Nomad Gathering please visit our website.
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Commissioned Project for Advocatus diaboli
It’s Saturday, and the temps are 25 outside, 48 inside.
I spent most of yesterday crocheting Advocatus Diaboli commissioned pieces, I finished up the black and purple stuffy.. Now I’m going to do a few small ones before finishing up 2 bigger ones.
Brent had spent the day helping a neighbor haul a few towers that the neighbor plans yo use to make a wind mill.
We had looked into wind turbines.. The issue is (from out understanding) that they are rated for 30 mph winds, but not a constant 30. We can get days of 30 mph with gusts of 50 or more. So we decided against doing it. We hope that it works for this neighbor. If it does, it may be something we do for ourselves.
We have had a few other neighbors try different wind turbines, but they didn’t last long. Fingers crossed 🤞 it works
Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center 