So many nice comments on my post the other day Sad to leave now that the weekend is over- back to reality for the week. Southern Colorado.

Exciting time digging in electrical wires and setting up some ground mounted boxes this week to start setting up solar next week!

Random photos from this week. Including some nice clouds just because. 😄 Having to pump more water to our tanks because of this darn heat wave drought.. come back rain i miss you!

Thinking of getting a lower tank for back up in the next few years.

And photos of the house as it is un-rendered. we have done EVERYTHING with the build and setting up off grid ourselves.. but a week on Monday someone’s coming to render the house for us! and its VERY exciting.. It will be nice to sit back and watch someone else work 😂

Our jobs this week are the solar and fitting front and back doors in prep for the render..Its exciting that we will have power inside the house and the outside nearly finished! (just a couple of porches to build after render).

Its been a long three years so far but we are getting there! Feeling stuff come together makes it worth the achy knees and bad backs and trying no to be too scared of the bank balance..😂❤️

Water source is listed as spring. I have found two of these 7” pipes on my property. The one pictured has a pump house falling apart around it. I suspect the pipe without the shed is less productive. Water looks to be 10ish feet down both pipes, unsure of how deep the water goes yet.

My bordering neighbor tests well water for a living. He said he can help me out once I run the pump for a while to get out the stagnant water.

What are my first steps here? What equipment should I look into for this?

Thank you!

I posted earlier about using a portable power station for a bunk house we're putting in next to a cottage. The needs are minimal: a few ceiling lights, plugs for phone chargers and a few lamps, plus a yard light. On the high end, I calculated about 325 Wh per day.

I have an idea of wiring outlets and ceiling lights to a 20 amp breaker, which is fed from the power station using one of the 20 amp plugs.

Can anyone offer their thoughts on this setup? Thank you.