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  1. 10-24-2008, 06:39 PM #1
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    Default Update On Our Off Grid Home!

    We moved in. Woo Hoo. For those of you that remember our story or those that are new, my husband and I built our own off grid home. We aren't completely done but we moved in this week.

    This is our whole story with pictures.
    http://www.city-data.com/forum/tenne...tennessee.html

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  2. 10-24-2008, 07:20 PM #2
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    Lisa, everything looks GREAT! Y'all should be very proud of yourselves. I bet you're glad to finally get moved into your new home. Thanks for the link to your story so we can become reaquainted with it and see all the cool pics of the progress.


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    Lisa,

    My Dh and I just read your entire thread. I fell in love with the "nosy cows"...lol. You all did a fantastic job. How impressive. It is so weird your thread came up today as my husband and I are in the process of hopefully purchasing an off the grid....Fingers crossed....But all that work you both did is wonderful kudos to you both.

    Blessings to you both and hope you enjoy your new home.
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    Lisa.....all I can say is WOW!!!!!
    I enjoyed every bit of that thread!!
    thanks for letting us see it!!

    ps- do you have a ceiling yet?
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    WOW! Beautiful!
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    Hi Lisa I enjoyed that. BTW my name is Lisa and I also live in TN. Upper Middle TN right on the edge of the Plateau. Where abouts are you located in East TN.
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    Smile Lisa...

    I LOVE your story, I just spent the last 3 hours reading it from beginning to end. It's BEAUTIFUL. Thank you.

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    Thank you everyone for your responses. Heartofmine- we are near Mountain City, TN.

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    I too spent hours there yesterday. It must be an awesome feeling finally seeing the end in site. Congrats to you & your husband, what a team!
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    Awesome!!!
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    Lisa and Mike - just spent hours reading through all 61 pages of your story... Wow!!! You two have worked so hard, and your home is beautiful. As is Niki

    I am very jealous, one day maybe we will do this..
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    I too spent hours there yesterday looking at pictures and reading!

    It's amazing! Great job.

    And thank you everyone else for also spending that much time there. I'm happy I wasn't the only one who spent lots of time at the site!
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    Quote Originally Posted by asimplegirl View Post
    I went through the link to read all those pages, but I would like to see what it looks like now that you guys have your stuff in it, and have it decorated. I think this is so awesome, I wish that I could do it- its my dream.

    Do you have any recent pics you can link?
    I would like to see that too, LOL. We moved into the house because the cold weather is coming and we had to get out of the motorhome but we aren't even close to decorating. We didn't even put the ceiling in yet ha, ha.

    I post a current chapter with new pictures every Monday of the work we did the week before. Did you see last weeks Chapter 28? That has pictures of most of our furniture- no accessories yet.

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    VERY cool, congratulations!
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    Lisa,
    I just finished reading all 61 pages! I really enjoyed reading about and seeing the pictures of your progress. I'm looking forward to reading more!
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