Hmm, I thought this was a well-known fact about me, but I suppose some of the newer members don’t know: I live in the boondocks. The nearest grocery store is about 10 miles from my house, and I have two neighbors: the folks across the street, down the canyon, and the folks who are across the street and on the other mountain. We’re surrounded on three sides by Angeles National Forest land (the fourth side is the road), so nobody can build around us. Why there’s a parcel in the middle of the forest, we don’t know. Anywho, here are some pictures:
Picture I took from down below. Yes, the cliff has been inspected by geologists.
Sagebrush. Yes, that’s where my name comes from (another unknown fact for some of you?).
The water tank. We don’t get any water here, so we have to drill for it ourselves. Behind where I was standing (in other words, not in the picture) is a shack with a small generator in it to power the water pump.
And we don’t get electricity either. So, on the far left is a fixed solar array, to its right is a variable-position solar array,
behind that is the propane tank (we have a gas stove, two small gas refrigerators, and a gas water heater, and of course the generators run off of gas), and the rectangular building to the right, next to the house, is a shed that holds the main generator, which can pump water and generate electricity when the solar panels aren’t enough.
And this, uh, lifestyle is why I can get pictures like this:
And this:
(Well, obviously I didn’t take that picture.)
I like a clean conscience
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