Just posting a few pics showing the inside and outside of our little cabin and the view from cabin towards goat barn (made of pallets, peeled poles, and slab wood) and of Mt. Lamborn across the North Fork Valley.
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| Goat barn almost finished. |
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| Decided to put the solar freezer outside (should run less, free up space inside cabin) |
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| Once goat barn is done, milk stand can move down there, freeing up space for firewood & storage. |
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| We use the fridge-freezer for an icebox (top) and bulk food storage (bottom). Should be able to run it with excess solar electricity during the hotter summer months. For now, we just make ice in solar freezer outside, and swap gallon ice jugs in and out twice a day. |
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| Half a dining room table downstairs... |
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| Looking towards front door. Solar batteries are under bench by door. Wood cook stove doesn't use much wood to cook all of our meals, heat water and keep the place very warm. In summer, we plan to use a rusty old wood cook stove outside, plus a solar cooker. |
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| Rickety ladder will be replaced with a sturdier one that folds up out of the way. Currently planning new (homemade) cabinets. Wood door on wall beyond cabin accesses a woodbox built into the wall of woodshed. Box holds enough wood for 2 to 3 days of cooking. Faucet (which you can't see in photo) is just a 25' long RV water hose that comes through a hole at rear of kitchen counter and has an adjustable garden spray on the end. Makes it easy to fill water pots on stove or buckets of water on floor for goats and chickens. Water comes underground, by gravity, from a half-buried insulated 1100 gallon tank that's located about 30 feet higher than cabin. Right now, we truck water to fill that cistern, but by end of next year should have the rainwater catchment, filtration and UV sterilization system (like used in Pagosa Springs place) set up again and hopefully won't have to truck in any more water. |
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| Full loft, about 5'5" high. Half of it is the bedroom... |
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| The other half of loft is office and (to far right) onion/pumpkin/squash/garlic storage. The office desk is the other half of the dining room table that we picked up cheap in the local want ad. We have high speed wireless internet that uses a dish antenna focused at a transmitter located on a hill 11 miles down and across the valley. |
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| North and east walls of cabin with rudimentary rainwater catchment system. Earthen plaster is just base coat, and hopefully will eventually get a final coat, but no real rush. It seems to be holding up fine. |
