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Alan Georges
Alan Georges
8 years ago

Jack, have you gotten your Sept/Oct issue of Backwoods Home yet? Just got mine yesterday, and there’s an article about setting up and equipping a small off-grid cabin based on a prefab shed. Off to listen to this podcast now, can’t wait to compare the two approaches.

Alan Georges
Alan Georges
8 years ago

And the chief difference is that Chris knew what he was doing, where the couple in Backwoods Home figured it out on the fly! Two different starting places, two interesting paths, two good results.

Suzanne
Suzanne
8 years ago

The TV likes to show families downsizing from over 3000 sq ft. to less than 200. For the “reveal” at the end, it shows everyone all excited about moving into a very cramped existence. Yeah right! With a couple teenagers, that’s really going to happen. I doubt they last a week. This “feel good” made for TV garbage is nonsense.

Smurf Hunter
Smurf Hunter
8 years ago

Small tip for Amazon Kindle users:

I was very pleased to see not only a kindle edition of this book, but it’s featured in “Kindle Unlimited” for free (with subscription). However this title does not appear compatible with the basic e-readers, like the Kindle PaperWhite I have. I was about to pull out my remaining hair getting this to download before I figured out WHY this was not working. My device was simply grayed out in the delivery drop down box on amazon’s website.

I suspect the author/publisher did this on account of graphic heavy content. Should be fine on tablets and phones.

Chris Haynes
8 years ago
Reply to  Smurf Hunter

The e-book is very graphic heavy because of the software I used to write it. It basically exported each page as one large JPG file. Figured it was better to have a large klunky electronic format than none at all. Sorry about that.

James
James
8 years ago

I really enjoyed the honest discussion with Chris and the Tiny House subject matter. There certainly is a place for the off grid to the back yard “Granny Cottage”.
Jack, I’d love it if you could expand upon the “Compound” concept. Much like a small village of yore?
As the show was concluding one song kept pounding away in my head and I was really hoping it would be the song of the day, but alas….
Might I suggest “Simple Life” by The Weepies for future consideration?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VyqMWV8tUQ

Unlurked1234
Unlurked1234
8 years ago

Brain worm! How am I gonna get Seven Spanish Angels out of my head? Dang it Jack…