A Bit of Recent Tiny House Life

Just some quick glimpses into what we've been doing around the tiny house lately. The good part of the way I've chosen to live for years now is that my normal life is apparently pretty close to what people call quarantine. 🙂 So other than not being able to workout in the gym a couple times a week, my life is pretty much the same as normal. And for this I feel very
fortunate for sure! So here's some of what Burley and I have been doing in the last little while.

 Continuing to go for long snowshoes, often 6-7 human covered miles per day. He of course gets a lot more in. Living in a fairly remote location, especially in the winter, other humans are something we almost never see in the woods. Though occasionally we'll hear a snow machine somewhere far in the distance, we pretty much have the woods to ourselves. 

There's been clouds, sun, rain, wind, and snow. Most days, all of those arrive within a single hour, so it must be spring. 😁 Which results in me doing a lot of layers on, layers off, as we travel to maintain a good body temperature. 

We get to see fun things like these pine marten tracks. Or the variety of pretty lichens growing on the side of a dead tree and helping return it to the soil. 

The sun pops out and makes the house feel like spring for a minute at times. And then moments after the sunshine, it will look like below again. 

And we have almost daily visits from foxes. While I occasionally spot one during the day, most come by at night. I hope they each eat several dozen mice every time they visit as we always have far too many of them in the clearing here. While they have never found their way inside the house, probably thanks to the solid steel plate that makes up the base of the house, they are everywhere outside and regularly eat the air filters in my vehicle. So all the small rodent predators are more than welcome!

There are also tons of birds to enjoy as a wide variety of different beauties frequent the woods around us. 

And if I'm too busy to go on a nice long snowshoe that day, Burley gets his exercise in with either his frisbee disk or ring. Both of which he adores chasing for as long as I can throw them! He never wants to stop even if he's panting and exhausted so eventually I have to make him quit by putting the disks out of reach. 

So between all those things, reading books, keeping up all the normal household stuff like feeding the wood stove, cooking, etc, photographing wild things, chatting with some of my good friends (many of whom live several thousand miles away so we've maintained those relationships via phone for years), and so on, every day is full and I never have quite enough time for everything I want to get done. I hope you are all finding lots of things you enjoy to fill your days with as well! In fact the next post will probably include a bunch of ideas for that just in case anyone is finding themselves bored at home right now. Hopefully you all have someone who loves you as much as Burley and I love each other to enjoy your time with!