I have two of the best copilots! #grownostr #dogstr #dogsofnostr #borderaussie #lab

Simple joys of living and establishing a homestead, a dragonfly taking a rest on your clothes drying on the clothesline. #grownostr #homesteading #homestead #dragonfly

Going to be driving to my brother and sister in law's place in Laguna Niguel, about 9ish hours from our quiet sanctuary. I'm excited to spend some time with them and their boys and I'm taking our dogs with me but my husband's staying home and I'm going to miss him. I'm super anxious for some reason, I don't know if it's knowing I'll have to drive through the city or just leaving our quiet sanctuary. I grew up just north of LA, but the longer I live away from it the more I hate driving or spending time there. Still trying to convince them to move out by us but I doubt I'll ever succeed in that endeavor! 🤣 #grownostr #California #Beach #Family #Ihatebigcities

One of our customer's chickens decided to come check out the trench! She's a sweet chicken and hung around for about a half hour before heading back towards their coop. #grownostr #electrician #construction #solar #chicken

I think we'll be saving up for a trencher, we're just not kids anymore and even with the roto-hammer it's still a multi-day task to do a 130ft 18in deep trench for a solar upgrade project. Plus we hit about ten feet of caliche. If you've never had to dig in caliche, count yourself lucky! 🤣 #grownostr #construction #electrician #toodamnoldtodig

GM Nostr!!! Today is going to be wonderful day! Woke up and took the dogs out this morning and checked on my garden to find a butterfly on my sunflower. #grownostr #permies #permaculture #gardening #Sunflower #butterfly

Our boys were not amused at how long we were gone today. Came home to them both taking turns putting they're heads out the window to glare disapprovingly at us for getting home later then normal. #grownostr #dogstr #dogsofnostr #labsofnostr #borderaussie

Playing the game of where we're is the propane line??? Homeowners can't remember where it went in and now we're playing don't hit it and hand dig instead of using our roto-hammer to dig this part of the trench. #grownostr #electrician #construction #solarinstall

We received about an inch of rain overnight, my garden looks so happy! I'm so happy! It's been a slow start to monsoon season here and yesterday was the first significant rain that we've had since May on our property. Apparently some of the land formations around us create a vortex and most of the storms go around us. My neighbor also said the canyon below us is home to some skinwalkers and they keep the storms from coming near the canyon and thus our properties above the canyon. He also told me that the wolf my husband saw on our property is actually the main skinwalker in our immediate area, but that if we're not afraid of him he can't hurt us and leaves like he did with my husband. But he did say that the skinwalkers are evil and he would tell me which caves in the canyon are safe to explore and which are the skinwalker's homes. I don't claim to understand any of the this folklore, I just accept that there are definitely things I don't understand in our world, but it was really interesting learning about some lore of the Navajo people in our direct area. #grownostr #monsoons #gardening #permies #permaculture #indigenouslore #folklore #skinwalkers

So excited one of my Hopi Black Dye Sunflowers is starting to open after a wonderful rain last night! The garden is just happy after a good soaking last night. #gardening #Sunflower #permies #permaculture #HopiBlackDyeSunflower

Just popping in with a beautiful sunrise and a cute labbie this morning! Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Sunday! #grownostr #sunrise #highdesert #dogstr #labsofnostr #lab

Anyone know a Raindance or two that can convince the storm to come about a mile north amd rain on my garden? This has been our life for the last few storms, just south of us and not by much. #grownostr #gardening #monsoons #Arizona

Fire and smoke aren't good but man does it produce a gorgeous sunset. The fire is about an hour away from us. The people in it's path could definitely use some prayers tonight. #grownostr #garden #sunset #smoke

GM! Monsoon season has officially started in Northeastern Arizona! Hoping some of the rain will water our garden today. The lab is just hoping he gets to play in the rain and he maybe tracking the bird that just flew by. #grownostr #gm #monsoonseason

Ok, need to deal with our Google domains and definitely do not want our domains moved over to Squarespace. We host with Siteground. Who do you all host your domains with, and please no recommendations for godaddy. #grownostr #domains #googledomain #websitedomains

Husband's cleaning the carb on our little champion generator. Picked up some dirty fuel and this thing is not made to be worked on. They also didn't put a fuel filter on it so the dirty fuel goes right into the carb and clogs it. He's not very happy with this generator, had to take it apart and work on it a few times now. We're going to be upgrading soon and this one will become the portable one for working on building projects around our 40 acres. #grownostr #offgrid #generator #rawland #homesteading

Went to a antique shop and they had turned a bed pan into a light, they had several other strange things turned into lights but this was the most unique piece. #grownostr #antiques