Category: General

We have sold our Tiny House

As I have mentioned a few times, we are planning to travel and do not need it any more

We have sold our Tiny House. Despite the fact that it is ratter small emptying it out was more work than I had imagined, but finally we got it done.

Then the day came that a crane and low bed trailer where there, to lift and take away the Tiny House. Some how it was a strange feeling seeing the Tiny House lifted and driven of, of our property, but it is the start of the preparations for our travel over winter. It was quite impressive seeing the Tiny House up in the air. The Tiny House is too wide for normal transport, so it had to be moved at night with a police escort. As we heard late from the buyer all went well and the Tiny House sits on its new location perfectly.

There are a number of reasons for us to want to leave Germany, but work prohibits us from leaving permanent. Of course it would also be a shame for all of the work we have done on our property. We are escaping winter, travelling south. We are going to look for the region we would like to move to in the future. A place where we can build up a proper homestead, with vegetable gardens, fields for grains, pasture and different animals. We hope to build up a big enough homestead to be self sufficient some where in the future.

We have someone who will take care of our cats, but the dogs will go with us. My husband will drive our tractor with the caravan and I will drive our car with a trailer with all sorts of supplies, but more to that another time.

We have not travelled like this before and are very excited. The main problem I see is with the type of dogs we have. We have to avoid lots of people and try to find places where they have the change to run around freely now and then.

We still have some things to do, but as soon as they are done and the wetter will allow, we are leaving.

We also will document our travelling on our channel in YouTube: Straver Homestead

Our trip home from our holiday

We started bright and early and the first half went very well. The second half was a bit snowy and very foggy as you can see in the picture the upper part of the windmill was not visible anymore.

The last 2 days of our holiday the wetter turned. It was cold and rainy. Our friend who takes care of our cats had sent us some pictures of our property with 10 cm of snow, but by the time we came home most of the snow was gone. The children of course loved the snow and made some snowmen right away. The garden looks a bit sad. I wanted to harvest seed from the green beans, but they have had frost now. I guess I will have to buy new seed for next year. I also still have some red beets in the ground which gave the snow a bit of red colouring. The root celery did not like the frost. I have to cut a bit more away, but the centre is still ok. Also leeks and carrots need to be harvested and processed and the last potatoes need to be harvested before the winter comes and before we can go on our trip. It also is time to plant the garlic for next year and the spring flowering flower bulbs. Not to forget lots of pressure canning to free freezer space to be able to put what’s left in one freezer, so lots to do.