Fall Garden Tour

A look around the stuff still growing in my garden. A few things have frozen, but I am still picking, pulling, or digging things for every meal. I haven't had to buy veggies for months now. And with all the greens I've frozen, beets and cabbage I've pickled, and stuff that I canned, as well as the stuff that I still have to dig such as lots of potatoes, carrots, beets, onions and garlic, I shouldn't need to buy much for a while either. 

Now I just need to get the rest of the stuff out and then add all my compost from the last year, a truckload of horse manure from a neighbor, and then till all that plus the hay that's been on there for the year in. This should help loosen up the soil here that's still a little heavy on clay. And then I can mulch it all under a bunch more hay and just plant through that in the spring.

 I hope to never till it again after that, just keep adding mulch on top and planting through that. This should help reduce the amount of watering I need to do and continually enrich the soil. Already, every time I dig up something I turn up handfuls of earthworms. This spring when I planted things, I only saw two in the whole garden. 

Overall, I am very happy with the production for a first year garden, in a never worked location, on top of a hill that's a boulder pile, with no irrigation, and in a zone three location. And busy making plans for next spring!

Insurance For A Tiny House

Insurance! So since I have an RV loan on my tiny house, I have to have insurance. For the last year, I had a policy through RV America. A year ago when I called all the companies, there were very few who'd ever heard of the idea and even less who were willing to insure a tiny house. They did after some lengthy discussions and some pressure from my house's builder, Tumbleweed. This was great. Except for the price tag, $759 annually. But I needed it for my loan, so I paid it. 

Now this year, with that policy up for renewal, I thought I'd do another round of checking on what's currently available. This time around, every agent I talked to reacted something like "Oh, like the ones on TV? Cool! I love those! I don't know if we can insure them, let me check." Turns out that some still don't cover them though, and since I live in the least populated state, WY, several companies don't have licenses for my state who would otherwise offer coverage. Just not worth the trouble for so few people. 

But Darrell (http://www.insuremytinyhome.com) and Farmers both do in my state. I'm still waiting on quote details from Darrell, but the local Farmers agent just came out to see the place and take some photos. She loved it and was so excited to see it and told me multiple times how jealous she was. ;) They quoted me $557 for the year and would insure it under a new category they invented just for tiny houses. Travel trailers that are stationary and full time residences or something like that. Not sure which I'll go with till I get the exact price back from Darrell, but it's cool that there are more options these days! Now I do have a house built by Tumbleweed and they have a RVIA  license, so these details might be different for self built houses. 

And while I was glad to have my policy for the last year, I wasn't real sure they really knew what they were covering, or that they would pay up if something did happen. But these other two both know exactly what they are insuring and I'm very comfortable with that. One of the two will be insuring Fy Nyth for the next year. Just some info for those of you looking for coverage yourself!

Sunrises & Sets and Friends

There's been a bunch of rainy days here, but some beautiful fall weather too. Pretty leaves, morning mists, colored clouds, and an amazing lunar eclipse. And my good friends Dale and Doris finally made it over for a dinner and a visit.