>>2284011>>2284012Well, by all means.
Bought 60 acres in the country; most of it is a hill, meaning it's shitty for building on, meaning cheap land. Dirt road. Spent years improving the land, digging out a dry creekbed to expose a live spring and make a swimming pond, renting a Bobcat to fill in part of the pond and cover it in concrete to make a dam to retain the water and double as a bridge to drive across. Bought a couple portable buildings, one at a time, and had them delivered, then built a connection between them to turn them into one building. Insulation, interior walls, new doorways, windows, all done myself. Wood burning stove in each building for heat, propane stove for cooking; also have a pre-WW1 wood burning kitchen stove, but I still need to install the chimney and replace a couple missing parts before I can use it. Solar power and batteries from a cell phone repeater tower (they replace batteries every couple years whether they need it or not, I bought used batteries that were still good at the recycle value) power my lights, fridge, microwave, and tv. A separate solar system powers the air conditioner. I have a covered porch I built, with a screened in section, and am currently in the process of extending the deck from the cabin to the dam. The floor in the front half of the cabin is oak, which I recovered from a 100 year old church that was being demolished, sanded, stained, and sealed. Buried propane tank should last for years at my current rate of usage, rain capture system holds and filters 2,000 gallons of water. I don't have the pump for the pump house so I have running water in the cabin yet; the kitchen sink drains, but doesn't have a water supply, and the toilet flushes (septic tank in back) but has to be filled with a bucket; I go outside and open a valve on one of the two capture tanks to get water.
The cabin itself is the product of 15 years of hard work and budgeting. Pic is not my cabin.
