Posts under ‘Organic Living’

First Two Days At Ironwood

Wow! We’ve done so much and learned so much I don’t know where to start!
There are two other interns here with us – Erin from MN and Julie from Peru. We spent most of our first 24 hours just settling in and getting to know everyone before getting our hands dirty.
In the past few days [...]

City of Rocks Stole My Heart

Okay, City of Rocks wasn’t quite the spot that takes my breath away and although I’m told it’s the place for star-gazing it was too cloudy to see the most stars I’ve ever seen (both on my list), but it was so gorgeous we will most definitely be making our way back in the future [...]

My First Bench Monday

I’ve been wanting to play along with Bench Monday for awhile now, but lacked the time and creative juices. But I must admit that through all this craziness (packing, purging, refurbishing) and with the impending journey (we leave two weeks from today!) I’m feeling freer and um, juicier (!) than ever.
This week is crunch week. [...]

We have solar power!

And we’re pretty dang excited about it! Justin posted about the installation process here: Solar panel installation.
In addition to solar power, we also have a general idea of when we’ll be moving.
It should take us about 6 weeks to sort through our possessions before we move things into the RV (or into a storage unit). [...]

Unemployed

View a better shot of this here.
The unemployment rate for Clark County, NV is 13.9% as of September 2009.
Justin is now among the long list of construction workers out-of-work.
His layoff didn’t come as a total surprise. He’s been at City Center, which is due to open the last sections of its massively ridiculous project soon. [...]