What Went Wrong Today On Our Arizona High Desert Homestead

In today’s episode we are going to show you what went wrong today on our Arizona high desert homestead!

We are Douglas and Keri and we recently quit our jobs, sold everything, and in September of 2022, after a lot of prayer and research, we took a leap of faith and moved to our off grid homestead property in the high desert of Cochise County, Arizona. Follow along with us as we build our off grid homestead property from scratch with our two rebels, Willow & Zoey and our 16 y/o kitty, Boo, and our newest additions Luna and Ursa!

We have been staying very focused on our hyperadobe chicken coop tower build and have now completed the plumbing (we added an extra spigot on the inside of the coop), the first layer of the dividing walls between the barnyard mix and the speciality breeds has been put down, and we completed the third course (also known as a row or a level) on the exterior wall!

Another big shout out to our friend and Realtor, Clay Greathouse from Tombstone Realty. I ran into him at the grocery store over the weekend and he gave us the suggestion of using the tractor more and using Doug’s back less on this build. We had been mixing each batch of fill dirt in the concrete mixer and then Douglas was hauling it from there in a five gallon bucket. Clay suggested we instead dump the load into the tractor bucket and bring that around to where we are working, that way we can move more dirt at a time and we can easily get 3 mixers full of dirt moved at a time. We tried this technique on Saturday and timed it and it cut our work time almost in half! Not sure why we didn’t think of this before, but thanks for the great suggestion, Clay!

The wind last night and today was intense and we had gusts up to 50 mph! We’ve had some concerns that the two storage sheds that we have up on our build site might not do so well and we were right :-( One of them actually did great, but the other one separated at the seam near the entry and also the whole tent shifted back about 9 feet exposing everything in the front to the rain, hail, snow, and wind we were getting. We also had several items that blew out of the tent and went down the hill! We couldn’t fix the tent when we got back because the winds were still high, so we put tarps down over everything and will assess the damage better in the morning when the winds are calmer!

We know we should have secured the tents better before this wind storm, but we didn’t get enough warning to do it. It really could have been so much worse than it was and fortunately the area of the tent that got exposed in the open was mostly tools and stuff that could get wet with no issues. Our neighbor friends said this is a pretty unusual wind storm and was the worst they had seen in 3 years being in the area. We are hoping that this is as bad as it can get and we plan to secure the tent better tomorrow.

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