Summer Living = Bliss

Yes, its December and we are just getting around to Summer posts! Better late than never! 😉 This is probably the first of a few Summer posts because we managed to fit quite a bit in this Summer!

Well, the title says it all…Summer tiny living on a flower farm is pretty remarkable. For one thing, the fact that we could literally be out on the deck all day was beyond amazing. We ate all our meals outside (in our pj’s frequently), played lots of games (chicken foot became a popular game thanks to some cousins & nerts), had fires in a fire pit, the girls enjoyed archery in the field – thanks to some lessons from my dad and our “landlord”, haha! Lots of animal time (Ken and Linds even got the honey bees going again), playing with the farm kids, art projects, helping out around the farm (or just watching lots of work happen), there was always something going on around here! Summer is the busiest on the farm (for obvious reasons) but being out on the back field, watching the flower farm come to life was really something special and relaxing.

We enjoyed being on the go as much as we enjoyed being home this summer! Thanks to some special people, we were able to enjoy a beautiful cruise to Alaska in June. And I gotta say, our girls were well trained for the small cabin to live in for a week! (Honestly, the bathroom and shower was bigger than what’s in the tiny house, so in a few ways it felt like an upgrade!) Our comings and goings did make it particularly challenging when it came to the packing and unpacking department. Multiple trips were made to the compound for additional clothes that are sitting in storage and closets. And the deck and the trunk of my car became “packing central”. Once we figured out our system (because of course there’s a system) by the end of Summer, we were pretty proficient at it. The girls being older and able to climb up and down the lofts multiple times for things was a gamechanger. And God bless my in-laws who let us come up to do huge loads of laundry after long trips!

Two major things on the “move in” list (that were never completed) were wrapped up as well! One: Ken had thrown conduit in the ground with the waterlines to eventually run cable back to the tiny house. (At the time, cable was not a priority in comparison to water and septic systems. Haha!) So thankful for the thinking ahead though because in one day he was able to run it from “the neighbors” underground to our place which makes multiple people working or doing homework at one time possible now! Yay! The second major item was finishing out the water lines past the tiny house to hydrants in the field. Ken and Kylee spent a weekend trenching, laying pipe and backfilling so the farm had two more hydrants in the back field for all the flowers and farm needs. Having those two major things off the list felt good…and doing so when it wasn’t raining or freezing felt like a luxury!

One more major positive to Summer in the tiny home…AC ALL THE TIME! We nicknamed this thing the “ice box” because it could be 95 degrees outside and this thing would hold at a cool 60 degrees. ALL. DAY. LONG. Never ever have I come home and thrown on sweats and slept with a fleece blanket all Summer long! It was glorious.