Homestead Opinions Featured in New Online Article

The Zeiger Family Homestead appears in a new online article, Fulfilling a Dream: Living off the Land on the Ruple Properties blog.

Their hope is that the article will encourage people to start thinking about how they, too, could make our type of lifestyle a reality.

They plan this to be the first in a series of posts regarding using one’s land for something other than just “mowing your lawn.”

The post, which you can read on their site, profiles some very interesting people who are “homesteading” on a little or a lot of land. The articles great, and the sites these other people maintain are well worth visiting.

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Comfort and Joy

Yesterday, around noon, I took the first real shower I’d had in nine days.

We worked hard all day Friday on rebuilding the water system. We brought the new/used water heater over from the boat house, sledding it through the snow with our pulk (see The Pulk: Our Homestead’s Winter “Truck”). We connected pex pipe and other fittings into the evening, until our muscles were sore and our heads spinning. Saturday, we opened the water tank spigot fully, examined every join for leaks, and judged it sound. We had a pair of slight, slow leaks, but none in the pex pipe joins. We’ll keep an eye on them, and if they don’t seal up, we’ll take steps to seal them.

The new plumbing and water heater. The washcloth on the left side covers and controls one of the two small leaks (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

The new plumbing and water heater. The washcloth on the left side covers and controls one of the two small leaks (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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