Team Platt

It’s funny how our heat tolerance is so relative. Even though yesterday’s meltdown was largely due to me being cold, last night I thought I might spontaneously combust because I was hot sleeping in a bed without near the amount of covers that we sleep with every night. 68° when I killed the HVAC did…

This is a super discouraging post, but it’s reality. We had such a wonderful thanksgiving and then went directly into another storm. Yesterday the wind was blowing so hard, it caved in Wesley’s side of the tent, and the dirt blew in and covered everything again like the first storm here. He woke up with…

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope that you all had a wonderful day. Wesley and I were talking this morning about how we don’t think Thanksgiving looks like Thanksgiving for very many people this year, and that our not being able to be with our families today wasn’t really all that different from what it would…

Today was the highest wind day of this storm front yet. The storm brought in some pretty cool looking clouds over the mountain, but it became clear as it was coming over the mountain, it wasn’t just a cloud. We ran around our camp getting things ready for the rain, and got in the truck…

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…