Sometimes you have go back a step in order to get 2 steps ahead, or at least that's what I've been telling myself this week.

We managed to back up a few feet which got us out of the frozen holes the spinning tires have been digging, but a medium sized tree is blocking any further passage.

The next step will be to get some fuel for the chain saw, take out that tree and see if we can drive out past the problem stump.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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