MONDAY
Sonny
Tonight I took a few minutes to sit in my recliner, sip on a cup of coffee and puff on my pipe. I got to thinking about how much we have got completed on our Off-Grid home over the last year. A year ago last April we were just getting started with the finish sanding of the drywall mud. Next came the plumbing, sewer system and black pipe work in the crawl space. That next weekend we started buying the unfinished oak kitchen cabinets, bathroom and kitchen sinks. Oh yea, we had the well put in also.
Suddenly we wanted to have a mud room added and the porch extended. In September I ordered the solar system and within a couple of weeks we had a back hoe digging trenches and running 10 gauge power lines in PVC pipe. Panels installed and inverters and converters working in the electrical room we suddenly had power before Halloween.
Had to prep the water pipes to keep them from freezing and wire up a temporary back-up generator in the event of short winter sun shineless days. That winter was a lesson learning session from hell but we make it through everything anyway.
Spring came in a hurry and we got the barn built and the garden planted, summer slipped in right behind it along with a chicken coop, wood shed and our root cellar.
Within a week or two, we will be canning about 2 million tomatoes.
Off-Grid in West Virginia 
2 MILLION! Now, that’s a lotta tomatoes! Are you gonna send me some?
I’ll put some on the next CSX heading west for ya.
2 Million!!! he he he whatcha do win the lotto. Yea you all came a long way, in making a home for ya both. Good job Sonny, you did good for yourself and your wife.
Glad I signed on late. Yea, two Million is a lot. That said, hey, can, can, can!!
Linda has been canning tomatoes all day today.