Adventure in surreal life! Starting to post more info about my off-grid home due to frequent commenter requests!

Hey again, steemitizens!

I get a lot of requests about more details regarding my "off-grid" life. It's a REALLY long story, so I plan to just make little droplet posts like this one and share the bits of the journey both new and old, as whimsy and time strike me.

This will be my permanent current and retirement "bug out HQ" for as long as I live, or at least as far as I can see for now.

It's located somewhere in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of Western North Carolina.

This is a video I shot about 3 years ago just days after I took possession of the property under contract, which ended up getting turned into a mini-documentary music video of my hewing of a path up to a very large Hemlock tree in the middle of a huge, steep hill of my 17 acres of mountainous land.

Originally published on youtube.com on April 27, 2014, this video includes myself making a trail, edited into a music and narrative video clip using original music I composed and arranged and produced myself in my home electronic music studio.

And just for fun, here are some wild mountain turkeys leading me up the private road to my place about a year ago.

When I first got the cabin, I basically unloaded a storage unit into it and a cargo trailer full of "stuff". So this very early video of the interior is nothing like it is now. But it's the only video I already had posted on youtube.com that showed any of the 12 foot x 28 foot tiny cabin.

Here's some random pics from around the place - don't worry, I've got millions more, but these will do to wrap up this post for now.

Standing on one of the higher points on the driveway to the top most part of my little mountain. I have 360 degree gorgeous views up there, but the road up needs major work. It's only useful by 4x4 vehicle when it's totally dry outside, or it's impassable to drive up to the top of my land.

This is a short piece of my half-mile long private driveway where the turkeys are in the video above, except covered in snow. This is truck country out here, folks.

More of my driveway, past the neigbors pastures. I kept my horse and mule here for a while, but more about all my various animals will be another post, another day.

Looking out from my front porch on that snowy day

Here's the horse and the mule. I've sold the horse now and the mule died earlier this year, in an unfortunate accident when she escaped her fence and was hit by a truck in the road in the early dark hours of the morning. :( Sorry to be a bummer about that, but I wanted to head off uncomfortable comments later in advance.

One of my two dogs brought this in out of the woods a couple months ago.

I brought this in, just for the photo. I did not eat it. I am not sure what it is.

Check this dude out.

The place is covered up in blackberry bushes, so I make wine!

And cookies!

That's enough for now. :)

Cheers!