lessee how dis goes

I had intended to do this sooner, but life happens as it does and time gets away from you.

About 6 months ago Phil, my husband to be and I decided we wanted a more simple existence. Some lovely friends of mine offered us the opportunity to establish our own little residence on their three acre property and we couldn't pass it up. Soon we were fantasizing about our organic garden, solar powered travel trailer, grey water systems, the works. The reality however has been an eye opening experience in primitive living, well if said eye opener was more of a sledge hammer to the face. Let's just say I've got life lessons and "wisdom" flowing from every orifice, now it's time to share...

Lesson #1-If someone offers you an RV for $400 you politely thank them for their offer and move on. OBVIOUSLY, I say this again, OBVIOUSLY this thing is a shit shack not meant for any sort of habitation beyond a few birds nests. Otherwise you will get what you paid for, as we did.

Lesson #2-If the aforementioned person offers you any more "bargains" it would be wise to decline, I promise, this time we learned our lesson...

Lesson #3-"Simple" living is HARD! While there are the quiet idyllic moments peppered amidst the insanity, if you don't have an endless supply of money/energy you are in for a rough time. Phil's mornings begin around 8am when the dogs wake him up to go out, after their feeding/pooping needs have been satisfied, he starts in on an endless list of things that are still in progress. This involves anything from trenching and laying in our water line(yes, we finally have running water after 3 weeks without) emptying our composting toilet bucket, draining our coolers before our daily trip to the grocery store (no refrigeration at present...) and many other mind numbing tasks. On top of all of this and perhaps I should have mentioned first, he is burdened with the task of somehow keeping my tantrum threat level low while we are essentially primitive camping. All this he does BEFORE his "real" work day begins.

On the plus side, things that normally would have thrown me into fits of anger just can't anymore, being utterly exhausted from complaining about these among other issues, that gross sandwich I just paid 6 bucks for doesn't rate anymore. That and with the gallons of water I have been drinking my skin looks faboo!