more normal than not

Here’s an idea….build behind your house and live mortgage-free after renting the main structure!

There’s a lot of smart choices in this build…from the corrugated metal for siding to the plywood floors in the loft…..too….well, just watch the video.

There’s a bunch of good choices.

This is so creative.

Creativity comes out of a lack of money (sometimes)…..and, if you have a bunch of time, you can get creative going that direction and save quite a bit of money.

Time is the thing you need to go in that direction.

If you don’t have time, you can hire creative people to do it all for you…..and then you can take credit for the results when it’s all done.

That way will cost you.

Awwwww….what the heck.

You’re either creative or you’re not creative.

It doesn’t have anything to do with how much money you have.

I do think, though, that a lack of money demands some creative solutions sometimes.

When you have to figure out a way to make something work, you have to get creative if you can’t just throw some money at the “problem”.

This is another Kirsten Dirksen video.

They’re all good.

This guy’s videos are good.

More “doing stuff out in the woods”…..stuff.

We planted a bunch of trees over on the property we own….and yesterday I took a big tank of water over to water them since the well doesn’t have a pump yet.

That’s as close to being out in the woods as I’m getting lately.

But….it’s my choice.

( I won’t do the water tank method again…too squirrely driving it down the road in the old truck. All that liquid weight shifting around makes for a weird ride.)

Not getting out in the woods is another of my goofy choices.

I need to get the family out for some camping.

We live in one of the best places in the world for that.

What am I waiting for?

A big, thick Scandinavian sweater?

It’s getting too hot for that.

What a curse to be practical.

I don’t “get” this.

Here’s a giant truck on fancy wheels that suits no purpose except to be unusual enough to attract attention.

You don’t use a truck like this down on the farm.

You drive it around Las Vegas and let people wonder why or how you built it….or, maybe, you find a person who thinks it’s cool to have a big truck on expensive wheels…..and….you show it off.

Maybe that’s the whole purpose….to “show it off”?

Maybe I’m just bitter.

I was excited to find a brake caliper to repair my old Ford for $15.00….(after some discounts and returning the core charge).

That’s what you want to find….a real bargain on a part that helps you stop.

A truck like this might be crazy….but….how much crazier is it to low-buck an ’86 F-150?

Awwwww…..”to each his own”.

I could say that in Norwegian if I’d paid better attention to my father when he was still around.

“To each his own”……enhver sin smak.