off the grid

I've moved out of the caravan and into the bakery-to-be; a small stone room with a nice cast iron fireplace, and a sink I can use when we run the generator, (the solar panels aren't enough to pump the undrinkable water to my tap.) I've used the internet twice in the last three weeks, and the same for a toilet that flushes, (rather than one that keeps everything in a nice pile for you to shovel out later.)

I have a nice place to live and good food to eat, and in exchange I do this and that around the finca -- clear land, cut firewood, pile stones, plant grapes, crack almonds, weed, water the garden, etc.

I have work to do, books to read, mountainsides to run on, people to talk to, wine to drink, sunrises to watch, and animals to play with.