Well, it has been a while since I posted, but I thought I should at least chronical something that we are doing, which is an interesting experiment.

I have been following the goings on at the Sugar Mountain Farm Site as Walter and family are preparing their tiny cottage. When I say tiny, I mean tiny. We are talking 252 square feet of living space for 5 people.

So in an attempt to try something new, we also shrunk the living area of our family this winter. No, we are not below the 300 mark, in fact we are still at about 1600 sq ft. from our prior 2400.

What we have done is to move ourselves to the first floor. The kids have their beds in the greatroom and we are in the "guest" bedroom.

The purpose of this is to get the family closer, reduce our heating footprint, learn to deal with one bathroom, and see what stuff we can live without.

To many times we find ourselves in a toxic level of "stuff". I have no clue what I was thinking collecting some of it, but be sure, it is going, albeit, not as fast I would like.

We have taken and placed some insulation in the stairway to the loft to block off the upstairs.

Right now, we are looking at the location of the Christmas tree this year. This should be fun..

Well, hopefully I can post more often, but things are looking busier despite my best attempts at slowing down.