We're going to live here:
It's an off-the-grid straw bale house. This is the view, twenty acres of which is part of the property:
The power is solar, the heat is propane and water comes from the sky and collects on the roof and flows into this cistern:
The person who is not me in the above picture is renting the place to us. She's from the English Midlands and I share that because Patrick asked. She's a certified clown, a published author, volunteer firefighter and has her own twenty acres just up the dirt road from us.
Also she's awesome, as evidenced here.
The property is about a mile from the town of Madrid (say MAD-rid), New Mexico. Coal miners, hippies, artists, bikers, a very awesome pub, a yummy restaurant, country western bands, tourists and, apparently, once a very odd amalgam of movie stars spent some time together there... Lots going on for a population of about 300.
Check it out over here.
We should be moved in by September. We may very well freeze in the winter and last, but oh so certainly not least we'll be using and one of these:
(I'm also not sure if we'll have internet access and I think my mobile phone works, but I'm not totally sure.)
Believe it!
