The Importance of Finding Joy in Simple Things
This world is crazy and it is just getting more so. How do I cope? I spend workweek evenings living on an acre of desert land I bought within commuting distance from my job. My first shelter was a geodesic dome greenhouse that I built from a kit. I didn't anchor it down as well as the instructions said and a big wind picked it up, tore it apart, and deposited it in a neighbor's field. I found it and rebuilt it again, did a better job of tying it to the ground, and ultimately covered it with a much more durable tarp. I don't live in it anymore, but it has proven very good for storage. The dome made a lot of noise and even though I had a fine bedframe and bed, I was losing sleep with the original polyester sheeting cover snapping in the wind and getting torn up over the weeks. I thought about how to solve the problem and settled on buying a trailered MacGregor 25 sailboat from a guy on a nearby lake. It was much cheaper than a comparable RV and gives...