Life in a Frozen Mudpit and other Updates From the Little House

Hi everybody! We're back to catch you up again!!! Here is an update on the kids (the first five minutes) and then updates on all our projects, plus some opinions about life, the universe, and mud.
I plan to and really MUST post here every day (or nearly every day) in December. My computer has actually crashed from all the video footage I'm storing. AND it is at some point going to be too cold to work outside. AND we LIKE sharing our story with you. If there isn't a video on Dec 1 everybody message me. I MEAN IT!
Also, feel free to weigh in on whether we should jump into the side garden project or wait until the spring. :)
Links:
Homesteaders of America conference: homesteadersofa...
Esther as a guest on Off Grid with Doug and Stacy: • ESTHER EMERY meets OFF...
Nick as a guest on The Grass-Fed Homestead: • Updating Our Walls wit...
My favorite book about rainwater harvesting: amzn.to/2Age0iT
Notes:
--I don't really know what the beeping sound in the background was. It started right when we started shooting and I decided not to worry about since it was the first time we'd managed to make a video in a long time. Sorry if it bothers you!
--The electric piano at the end is not at our house. Neither is the electric light behind it. :)
--We truly do appreciate the gifts we've gotten from our friends and subscribers. They have not been unwanted or a waste in any way. Stella is a great little craftsperson because of the yarn and beads you all sent her, and Milo has a snake skin in a jar on his dresser because of you. That's very cool. But it IS a strange thing about being a TH-cam family that our kids have a very large extended family. We've struggled with that this year, and that is why we requested no gifts, please. (That's also more or less why we shut down our Patreon account.)
--Over the next month I'm going to be adding videos that are not in real time, but I will make sure they are in chronological order on our various playlists. Look for LITTLE HOUSE VLOGS for kid stuff and daily life, MOUNTAIN DREAM HOME for the build projects, and a playlist called STORY HOUR for conversations like this one. I also hope to put up a couple more "ten things" lists for the GREAT and AMAZING wisdom we've gathered over the course of our adventures!!! *wink*
Until then, sweet dreams, and good night from the Little House.
Enjoy!
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About the Fouch Family: We are Nick and Esther, and our three kids Milo, Stella, and Sadie. We have lived off the grid -- in the sense of not connected to the power grid -- for four years on three acres of wooded land in Southwestern Idaho. Nick is a finish carpenter working on building his own business. Esther is a writer, the author of a recent memoir called "What Falls From the Sky," and a daughter of the homesteading teacher and activist Carla Emery, who wrote "The Encyclopedia of Country Living." Nick and Esther were both raised in Idaho, near where we live now, but we've also lived in Massachusetts, Utah, and California. Our kids are ages 10, 8 and 5.
Esther's book: amzn.to/2xd3V2r
Esther's mom's book: amzn.to/2woLudq