Author: Laura

Today is our one year anniversary. I’d love to tell you that we did something special, but the governor of New Mexico has shut everything down and that’s not realistic. We did have a peanut butter snickers bar for dessert. Living in a tent in a pasture in NM doing mold avoidance certainly was not…

You probably remember me telling you how much I don’t like storms two weeks ago. It seems to be about the frequency of storms in New Mexico. The difference is there’s no storm. Just a low front coming through and some wind with it. I’ve been more sensitive to things since Wednesday, and Wesley has…

Sorry I haven’t written anything for a couple days. Our life has gotten into a pattern and there hasn’t been much variation from it so there wasn’t really anything interesting to write about. Our normal day looks like we wake up and it’s freezing out so we lay in bed for a while and then…

Jim came and dug the hole for our out house today. Apparently there’s an old out house up by their house that we can either partially disassemble and he can move it down here to use or completely disassemble it and use what we will to build a new one, and we would just be…

Yesterday we went out for a drive to perceive different toxins that we were driving through. We identified some pretty bad areas and some good areas. We talked about how that needs to be part of our daily routine, and now with the clothesline up and me doing laundry again, we figured we can probably…

Today was a very productive day. Wesley worked on getting water and morning laundry while I made breakfast today. We got all that cleaned up and decided to head over to Capitan to get a 3/16” drill bit. The largest drill bit that was in the kit that I bought was not big enough to…

Sorry about never getting a post done last night. Wesley had cool pictures from the walk he went on while he was at the ranch and I was in Alamogordo running errands. I forgot to leave the computer here for him so I pretty much left him with nothing to do all day. I got…

We got up this morning, ate breakfast, and headed back to the ranch. There was so much cleaning to do so that we could sleep in the tent tonight that we wanted to get on it as soon as as soon as possible. We got back around 11 and got laundry caught up and the…

Today really just consisted of running a bunch of errands. We went to Cabela’s to look at cots for the tent, and got totally slammed by mold. We left and decontaminated in the parking lot and then went to Walmart. We wanted to see which cots they had there, but decided that it would be…

Last night was interesting. We went to bed after finishing storm prep, including a tarp to help with rain and dust. I was working on the blog post and Wesley was playing a game on his phone. Then he was looking out the windows to be sure his tarp was still in place. The next…