A year ago, I documented my first impressions of Nicaragua and how it changed my perspective of preparedness, living with not much and sustainability in Living La Vida Nica. Here I am now, about a year later, relaxing in what feels like a cavernous house while waiting on pork chops to finish baking in the…
Category: Hermit-Stead
The Adventures of A Hermit: Year 1 Retrospective.
We should be just about done with all the ”Best of” and Top 10 Most Spectacular Vomit Moments of 2011 that clog practically every newspaper and magazine in the land. But I wouldn’t be a contributing member of blogger-society if I didn’t put the Hermist’s fondest adventures on record. I’ve come into myself this year, owning…
In Hermit Shoes…
The backroads home are pitch black. Its just me, driving home half an hour after the sun officially tucked in, with only a stain of pink left in the sky, paused and then erased into black. There is only the occasional set of red taillights that I encounter as I drive, sailing over the curvy…
Sustainability 101: How To Be Your Own Hermit
hey everyone! just wanted to share this blog post that i found to be worth sharing. Its a state of mind. Check it out… Living a self-sustainable lifestyle does not mean you have to have 139,674, 987 acres somewhere in the middle of nowhere! Off-grid, self-sustainable living can happen no matter where we are. In…
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Outside my window at this moment, a fantastic storm cloud is looming, looking a deep grey-purple shade of scary, rolling up its sleeves for a bit of leery ass-kicking. As any person that lives in drought-stricken south Texas will tell ya, its a welcome sight. Bring it on, slap us around a little bit with…