Leaving the Tiny House For A "Micro House"

If you are interested in a tiny house, you are probably busy looking at plans, layouts, building methods, how to pair down your stuff, etc. But once you finish all that, hopefully what you are left with is more freedom. More free time, money, mental space, and so on. Some people love to travel with their free time. Not me so much. Some love to stay home and garden much of the time. Which I do. But I also love to backpack in the wonderful scenery around my house.

Meet my micro house, a whole 34 square feet. She weighs a bit under two pounds, no big pickup needed to move at all! And shared with my former room mate, Beth. We split up as room mates when I moved into Fy Nyth. But we still enjoy backpacking together. 

After about 35 miles of walking through scenery like this, we left the trip a day earlier than planned due to Beth having a pretty bad rolled ankle. Which happened on an (almost) flat level stretch of trail. Not on any of the steep or dangerous places where we were before that.

But before that, we climbed Fremont Peak. This is the view from only half way up.

Here we are both trying to not blow off the very top of the mountain in the 50 mile per hour gusts. 13,745 feet above sea level. The highest I've been on my own feet.

This shot give you some idea of how steep the climb up there was. Those lakes are almost 3000 feet below us right here.

This was just part of the 360 degree view of peaks from the top. 

This is an amazing world. Follow your dreams and if there is something you want to do, go for it! Don't spend the rest of your life wishing you had.

Mini Morning Mirrors

After a full day of rain the day before, I awoke to these lovely water drops adorning everything in my garden. Sights like these are the second best part of gardening I think. Right after getting to eat things out of the garden!

Things That Go On In A Tiny House

What happens in my house? Other than emptying toilets, canning things, watching wildlife, and blogging about it all? Often, having dinner and spending relaxing evenings with friends. Either out by my fire pit if the weather is nice and warm, or inside Fy Nyth. 

This is one of the best parts of living in a tiny house and the smaller amount of work, bills, maintenance, etc that come with it. Having time to do things I enjoy. Like sitting around a fire or in my cozy little house, eating good food, talking to some of my closest friends, and having a glass of wine.  I remember hearing someone else say that their favorite thing about their tiny house was the people they share it with, and I second that. Here is a collection of photos from a some of those evenings. 

Many people want to travel etc. which is fine, but this is some of what I enjoy. What would you choose to do with more free time in your life? 

Laundry Day in a Tiny House

There are many options for laundry in tiny space. From laundry mats to all-in-one units, to your mother's house. This is the setup I've been using since before moving into my tiny house actually. I used it while living in a motel as well. It is more manual than many options, but  I don't mind this. 

I have a wonder wash as my washing machine. You just fill it with clothes, water, and your choice of detergent. I use soap nuts since they do not irritate my skin and keep my water totally safe for dumping in my garden. More about them in my post here.

Then you simply close the lid tightly and spin the machine back and forth to tumble everything. Drain and add fresh water and repeat to have a rinse cycle. When it's warm, it seems most handy to do all this on my little porch. In the winter I stay inside.

To drain the machine, you stick this little spout in, and it drains from the bottom. I collect the water in a bucket and pour it right on my plants.

Once everything is rinsed, it goes in my Nina Soft Spin Drier. This works like a giant salad spinner and gets an amazing amount of water out. Clothing is nearly dry to the touch when it comes out, but still a tiny bit damp.

Out of the spin drier, bigger items go outside on my wash line like the very first photo, and little things or delicates hang on the folding rack I have inside. At least with the dry air we normally have here, things only need to hang for an hour or so to be totally dry.

And that's my laundry day here at Fy Nyth!