Friend of mine said my apartment layout was different...

[womanofthehills]

37. Same here - 40 acres but it's juniper, ponderosa pine & cactus

With a great view of Manzano Mts in middle of NM.

My boyfriend used to be a builder & into solar - so in 1995 he and I with the help of friends were building a redwood cabin and then someone gave us free trusses so we enlarged the first floor and made an upstairs with a deck on each end. It took us five yrs to build as we were living in Albuquerque & came out a few weekends a month to work. Finished it in 2000 and moved in.



My whole south side is basically windows - passive solar. I have solar panels to pump up well water and on roof. For about 6 yrs was totally off grid but then connected my panels to grid. I love just staying home. I have chickens and 2 half husky dogs. I’m big into gardening and am an artist . My neighbors (mostly women) all built their own homes same time I was building - earthships, straw bale, rammed earth and adobe. Now we are all old together out here

I’m 4 miles down a dirt road to highway and 12 miles from the nearest small town of under 900 people. Everyone seems to know everyone out here. Lots of artists - art galleries.