Ever feel like self-isolation??? What's your dream?

**rachelMcK** · 03-11-2008, 09:11 AM

I've decided, I HATE the city! The people (the scary crackhead people), the sounds, the stress, the stores, the smells...everything about it! I DREAM of building a cabin in the woods with no electricity, just a woodstove with some sort of water nearby (lake, river, whatever). Grow a garden, have some chickens, just chill. I'd spend my days gardening, taking care of my animals, hiking, fishing...then spend the nights all cosy by a WOOD FIRE (not this base board electric heat) with a tea and a book by candlelight, then snuggling up to my honey at night. Then I wake up from my daydream and realize I'm still here...in the city.

So what are your dreams when you get sick of where you're at???

**M55FF** · 03-11-2008, 09:34 AM

in the woods you have other predators like wolves, bears, snakes and problems getting food or medicine if the weather turns bad.

I always dreamed of the suburbs, a nice house with a lawn and a fenced yard for my pet dog to run... grocery stores close, hospital close and all the convienence to live comfortably and have everything accessable. Nice park to go to thats in walking distance, recreational areas, library, church and room to grow a small garden.

thats the reality version and it happened.
The fantasy version is more adventurous like living on a beach in Hawaii with a hoard of servants to cook and clean while I go fishing, hiking, boating all day... coming home to a clean house, dinner made and my husband in a lion cloth ready to please me in any way I ask........

of course in the fantasy version he has Bill gates money and looks like Brad Pitt

**mombottoo** · 03-11-2008, 09:38 AM

I like where I live, so I don't mind the sounds, smells and what not. But, I don't live in the city either. I'm a country girl through and through, but when I need a change I go camping even further out into the boons than I am already!

**DAAC3DEC** · 03-11-2008, 09:40 AM

that is so funny!!! I was just thinking this on my way into work this morning!! I am sick of rude people and traffic and people who shouldn't be driving, the list goes on and on............I also share your dream, little cabin, lots of land, all my animals--I would LOVE this!!!! I'm with you sister!!!!

**rachelMcK** · 03-11-2008, 09:42 AM

I don't really mind predators and what not...i grew up in the woods and then moved to the city for school. Now I don't have enough money to move back...lol!

**forHISglory** · 03-11-2008, 09:45 AM

We dreamed of the cabin in the woods and now we live here! Dreams do come true. However, we have the house up for sale, and our dream has shifted to the suburb home in another state. When life gets tight and tense, daydreams are SOoooooo helpful! And as I mentioned, sometimes they come true.

**StaceyS** · 03-11-2008, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by rachelMcK

I've decided, I HATE the city! The people (the scary crackhead people), the sounds, the stress, the stores, the smells...everything about it! I DREAM of building a cabin in the woods with no electricity, just a woodstove with some sort of water nearby (lake, river, whatever). Grow a garden, have some chickens, just chill. I'd spend my days gardening, taking care of my animals, hiking, fishing...then spend the nights all cosy by a WOOD FIRE (not this base board electric heat) with a tea and a book by candlelight, then snuggling up to my honey at night. Then I wake up from my daydream and realize I'm still here...in the city.

So what are your dreams when you get sick of where you're at???

I'm right there with ya! Only thing is, it'd have to be without the honey cause he'd go crazy, and that would drive me crazy.

**Holly** · 03-11-2008, 10:28 AM

I want a cabin smack in the middle of 1000 acres of land.
Go to the city for supplies every spring and fall.
I am not a people person.
Wolves and other critters are more scared of you than you need be of them.
a big garden and a bunch of chickens
and a couple cows.
I would have made a great pioneer

**goat21** · 03-11-2008, 10:29 AM

Oh, sometimes I think how nice it would be to not have to bring in wood from where it's stored outside to feed the dinosaur of the wood stove that, if someone (me) doesn't get up several times during the night to "feed" it, will devour what it has been "fed" and leave us with a cold house. After all, there is no baseboard (or any other kind of heat) for back-up, that will kick in if the house's temperature goes below a comfortable 30 or 40 degrees. And the mess of bringing that wood into the house. Sigh. And when I get my wood cook stove installed, that, too, will have to be fed and even cooked on. After all, I didn't buy it just to give the cats another surface to sleep on.

I also wonder what it would be like to only have concrete and pavement to walk on. It must be nice to walk from one's house to their car and not have mud, mud, mud. Oh, and that mud is caused by the the springs which are abundant on the hillside behind the house. Heck! Next time the pump goes out on my well (I'm making the final payment on the last breakdown repair this month), maybe I can channel one of those springs into my toilet.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to NOT have chickens (or ducks or dogs or cats or goats) to tie me down. I dream of the day when I can travel, or even just go to the beach overnight. Sigh. Unfortunately, some of these animals will probably outlive me. And the poo! Chickens give lovely, tasty, homegrown eggs but boy, I wish they (and the ducks) would stay off the porch. And, what would it be like to be able to leave a door open without having chickens and ducks walk right into the house?

Stores? It must be nice to be able to walk or bike to a store and not have to drive 12 miles (and 12 miles home) if you need an item or two. I suppose I could bike to the store; it's mostly downhill, after all. Oh, wait! That would mean biking home...12 miles...mostly uphill. I don't think so.

And the traffic! Those darn log trucks that rumble by just about every hour on the hour. Of course, sometimes there's nothing else that goes by for hours. Oh, the loneliness of it!

And neighbors. It must be nice to have neighbors that have something INTERESTING to complain about, like their last drug deal that went bad. Not like my one neighbor who, every six months or so, complains about the two or three ducks of mine that wander over to his pond. He REALLY hates that. You'd think the world comes to an end when that happens.

And growing one's own food is highly overrated. You have to prepare the soil, add nutrients (compost, of course), water, weed, and don't forget to keep those darn chickens (and ducks and goats and, yeah, dogs and cats) out of the garden! Ducks may be good at eating slugs but they will eat your plants. And, IF you succeed and actually grow something, then you have to do something with it. Either eat it right away or if you have a really big garden and are aiming at self-sufficiency, then you have to freeze, can or dry what you produce. Work, work, work.

You all know I'm kidding, don't you? I could NEVER live in the city (or a town, for that matter). And that is something I realized at a young age.

There are disadvantages and inconveniences to my choice of lifestyle and sometimes I think, when the kids are all grown and gone, moving into one of the small communities around here (and I mean "small," ones that most people wouldn't even consider a "town"), but that do have a store and post office within walking distance. But I don't like the one neighbor I have now; I don't think I could live anywhere where there's a neighbor across the backyard fence.

Janis

**mmy2grls** · 03-11-2008, 10:30 AM

I dream of winning the lottery, having a nice little house with a huge fenced in yard where my kids in the country and we can play and have peace and quiet.

**della92** · 03-11-2008, 10:57 AM

My fantasy is living similar to the Native Americans, in a tepee. I have great faith that my husband can do all the providing (he's an amazing outdoorsman and builder) and I can do the domestic work (I like to cook and in a tepee there can only be so much cleaning). And he'll teach me what I need to know.

Leave all the modern distractions and just focus on our survivial needs and family. Sounds so relaxing (sshush, I don't want to hear about all the hard work, this is my fantasy and here it's only good stuff, he-he).

Although, as far as modern things, I do have to have to take some books on nature and specifically herbology (sp?), we may get sick and need to know this stuff. And then there is the must have books my favorite series "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. Some seeds, chickens and basic tools and we'll figure out the rest as we go.

Oh, but I do have to come back to modern times to get the next book in the series. I have a hot bubble bath and a slice of cherry cheesecake before my return to the wild.

**cab54** · 03-11-2008, 11:06 AM

Oh YEAH! That's why we saved all our married lives (30 years)and built a little cabin in the woods up north from us. Too far to drive, and too simple (no electricity) for anyone to want to come and visit. (We did NOT build it so we could entertain.)

However I must tell you that we DO have bears and even saw a lynx, and wolves and coyotes. We have to watch it when we're outdoors. And you could never grow things there without putting up a TALL fence around that deer couldn't jump over.

But it is cozy.

**brenda67** · 03-11-2008, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by goat21

Oh, sometimes I think how nice it would be to not have to bring in wood from where it's stored outside to feed the dinosaur of the wood stove that, if someone (me) doesn't get up several times during the night to "feed" it, will devour what it has been "fed" and leave us with a cold house. After all, there is no baseboard (or any other kind of heat) for back-up, that will kick in if the house's temperature goes below a comfortable 30 or 40 degrees. And the mess of bringing that wood into the house. Sigh. And when I get my wood cook stove installed, that, too, will have to be fed and even cooked on. After all, I didn't buy it just to give the cats another surface to sleep on.

I also wonder what it would be like to only have concrete and pavement to walk on. It must be nice to walk from one's house to their car and not have mud, mud, mud. Oh, and that mud is caused by the the springs which are abundant on the hillside behind the house. Heck! Next time the pump goes out on my well (I'm making the final payment on the last breakdown repair this month), maybe I can channel one of those springs into my toilet.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to NOT have chickens (or ducks or dogs or cats or goats) to tie me down. I dream of the day when I can travel, or even just go to the beach overnight. Sigh. Unfortunately, some of these animals will probably outlive me. And the poo! Chickens give lovely, tasty, homegrown eggs but boy, I wish they (and the ducks) would stay off the porch. And, what would it be like to be able to leave a door open without having chickens and ducks walk right into the house?

Stores? It must be nice to be able to walk or bike to a store and not have to drive 12 miles (and 12 miles home) if you need an item or two. I suppose I could bike to the store; it's mostly downhill, after all. Oh, wait! That would mean biking home...12 miles...mostly uphill. I don't think so.

And the traffic! Those darn log trucks that rumble by just about every hour on the hour. Of course, sometimes there's nothing else that goes by for hours. Oh, the loneliness of it!

And neighbors. It must be nice to have neighbors that have something INTERESTING to complain about, like their last drug deal that went bad. Not like my one neighbor who, every six months or so, complains about the two or three ducks of mine that wander over to his pond. He REALLY hates that. You'd think the world comes to an end when that happens.

And growing one's own food is highly overrated. You have to prepare the soil, add nutrients (compost, of course), water, weed, and don't forget to keep those darn chickens (and ducks and goats and, yeah, dogs and cats) out of the garden! Ducks may be good at eating slugs but they will eat your plants. And, IF you succeed and actually grow something, then you have to do something with it. Either eat it right away or if you have a really big garden and are aiming at self-sufficiency, then you have to freeze, can or dry what you produce. Work, work, work.

You all know I'm kidding, don't you? I could NEVER live in the city (or a town, for that matter). And that is something I realized at a young age.

There are disadvantages and inconveniences to my choice of lifestyle and sometimes I think, when the kids are all grown and gone, moving into one of the small communities around here (and I mean "small," ones that most people wouldn't even consider a "town"), but that do have a store and post office within walking distance. But I don't like the one neighbor I have now; I don't think I could live anywhere where there's a neighbor across the backyard fence.

Janis

LOL...thanks for the laugh...Yes I would like your life!

**brenda67** · 03-11-2008, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by cab54

Oh YEAH! That's why we saved all our married lives (30 years)and built a little cabin in the woods up north from us. Too far to drive, and too simple (no electricity) for anyone to want to come and visit. (We did NOT build it so we could entertain.)

However I must tell you that we DO have bears and even saw a lynx, and wolves and coyotes. We have to watch it when we're outdoors. And you could never grow things there without putting up a TALL fence around that deer couldn't jump over.

But it is cozy.

Okay..wildlife does scare me...but your way of living sounds good to me also!