/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I have a bid on a tax sale lot in an area where the code enforcement don't seem to bother you much. I am hoping to get it for under 1k. It also seems to be a low crime place, at least if you are not rich and don't own much.

My goal is to build a hexayurt with a rocket mass heater for winter and a tipi for summer. I will build a composting toilet (humanure style). I will set up some ways to collect rainwater using tarps or ??? and I will use my backpacking filter to filter all water for drinking. There is also a creek that crosses the road near the property for watering plants. I will grow some fruit trees and a veggie garden, maybe chickens and rabbits too.

The lot is near a bike trail and there are food stores less than 5 miles so I might not need a car, although that is difficult in the country. I will wash my clothes in a pail, dry them on a line. I use mainly synthetic fiber clothes (soccer shorts and tees) because they wash easily and dry quickly. I already have a simple marine battery/solar charge controller/30W solar panel with some homemade led lamps, so I think I have lighting, cell phone charging, laptop charging, boombox and minor power tools needs (inverter) taken care of. For cooking and heating water I will use a propane camping stove. I will use a washbasin for cleaning up dishes and myself, but it is very easy to make a mini shower using a small pesticide sprayer with a pump on it.

I have already been married and don't need a full time girlfriend so I don't care if the wimmins are scared off. However I would say that there are some hot women in my Transition Town group and in permaculture groups and they are into this kind of stuff and they are the type that will stay the night to get the full experience.