Good news! The solar is up and working! Now it’s time to move into the next project. Which project we’re not sure yet. I have been slowly unpacking and setting up the guest house. Brent hasn’t had much chance to start unpacking, organizing the blue Moon.
Tag: modern Pioneerism
Overnight Visitors
We had visitors last night. Caught these guys on our security camera, think these are wild, as wild dogs been attacking cattle, goats, chickens. I don’t mind coyotes and other wild animals. But wild dogs are different, I feel bad that they aren’t being loved, cared for.. They probably was a pet at one time and most likely dumped out here in the desert.
They aren’t safe here, and most likely will be shot by the rancher, workers or a cattle agent. Pack of wild dogs isn’t a good thing. I wish people be more responsible and take care of their pets..
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Another day gone
Another day gone, other then working on sage we worked on the Blue Moon container.. Getting it air tight for the music gear!! Our next big project is figuring out a stage. We had been wanting to build one, but feel the price of lumber it’d be cheaper to find an alternative. Few things we’ve been watching for is a Flatbed trailer, plastic, wood pallets..
artoftinyliving #modernpioneerism #containerhomes #musicstudio #EventCenter #lumber #stage #diy
Sage, Festivals, and organizing!
We’ve been working on organizing the containers to get ready for everything we have in storage to come out.
I been working on making mini sage smudge sticks, smokeless smudge sage powder and liquid! We will be selling the sage items along with other goodies for all that visit!!
We are now to point that you can schedule an event or festival for 2022 summer!! Have a music fest, wedding, reunion, or gatherings you’d like to have out in the desert! Contact us for details..
artoftinyliving #modernpioneerism #festivals #venuespace #gatherings #MusicFestival #offgridhomestead
Solar still not working
Well had electrician come out and look at the solar for us.. The combiner box is bad, the new controller is “back-feeding” power.. Which is confusing everyone, as it’s hooked up right and shouldn’t be back-feeding.. So consensus is this controller is bad too.. The electrician believes that the combiner box killed both controllers, or we got 2 bad controllers..
So now we are once again dealing with the company.. We’re not sure about getting any replacements as we want things that work..
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Solar pain in the ….
Sleeping mode, is all that the new solar will do.. After 4 hours on the phone with the tech today, only thing we figured out is possible bad combination box or yet another bad controller or both.. A tech is coming out in the morning to take a look.. There is power coming off the panels, but nothing from the combination box. First it was not getting all the parts sent, next bad controller and now this… We wonder is it ever going to work, did we waste money? Right now anxiety, moods, regret are high…
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Learning Curve
Music without a generator!!! We still are not sure about the solar, it’s still showing it’s in sleep mode, but the inverter, controller and our multimeter is showing the batteries are fully charged.
Today we are putting a little heavier load, to test it out. But even with 600 watt amp, and now fridge in the RV we are only using 14% of the batteries… So we’ll see how tonight goes with leaving the fridge on, see how it handles it.. (One step at a time)…
We are thinking we’re not pulling enough off it to put the controller in wake mode.
Fingers crossed this is the issue, cause it is nice to have enough electricity to run most everything!! Yet another #learningcurve … Once we feel secure with the solar we’ll finally get to move all our stuff out of storage and set up the containers music studio, library, living room, kichen…Which will require more #electric
#artoftinyliving #modernpioneerism #solarpower #diysolar #offgrid #offgridsolar #music
Another one of the many projects
Can you guess what I’m working on? No not rolling cigarettes…. Rolling mini sage smudge sticks from some freshly dried white sage!! We are hoping soon to add a store front out here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun , but until then sage is one of the few items we offer for campers to purchase..
Other items includes Desert Coffee (Mesquite coffee, we harvested and roasted the beans) it’s all a sweet coffee (more tea like but considered coffee) non caffeinated and very tasty.. so far it’s been a big hit!!
We also have charms..
Until we get a store front it’s by appointment..
We are hoping to add
prickly pear, juniper jams..
Mini Mullein smudge sticks
Mesquite flour
Art originals and prints….
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Campers, Neighbors and Solar
Been busy days working on the solar, campers coming in, and meeting a new neighbor. (Neighbor here is anyone that lives up here on the Mesa, this one is 3 miles from us). We like how all the neighbors know each other, watch out for and willing to help if needed.. We use to live in a town in Minnesota where we lived 10ft from neighbors on either side yet knew very little about them, we would try to be social but it’s different…
Not wanting to jinx it so won’t say we are planning to have the solar finished today… We’ll post an update once it’s completed!
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Tuesday Evening
A beautiful evening here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun No campers tonight but we’re almost fully booked up the rest of the week! Next week we are looking forward to possible campers coming in from Texas to enjoy the views and hopefully the serenity of the land.
Tomorrow the new controller is supposed to be delivered to the local UPS store (have we told you UPS, FedEx and USPS Business won’t deliver here? ) Deliveries has been a huge learning curve for us.
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