We are Cody and Jo Leaton, and we currently live in an 24' Pacific Yurt with our four kids in the Cascade foothills of Oregon. Follow along with us in our unique way of life as we attempt to build a multigenerational homestead from scratch on our family's communal land in the PNW!
Haha yes we were at LFP in that video! We used to live close to there. We’re still in Oregon, but we’ve moved to the country since then (we now have kids and live in a yurt in the woods!)
Wow, what a rude thing to say to a stranger! I hope you wouldn’t speak to someone like that if they invited you into their home in person. Is your house always spotless? I specifically didn’t tidy up before filming because I wanted to show the reality of living off-grid in a tiny house with toddlers. We don’t wash dishes after every meal because that requires boiling water and a 20 minutes process to wash everything without running water. The kids play with toys, and as anyone with kids can tell you, sometimes they want to leave a toy out to come back to later. I don’t have an office or a sewing room, and it’s not always practical to put projects away when I’m planning to come back to it later in the day. We don’t have closets to hide things in. Our entryway doubles as our bathroom for heavens sake. We’ve been working to build shelves and storage solutions for a year and a half now, but that takes money and time - both of which often have to be spent on other things. Please be more thoughtful before you leave a rude comment next time.
Our yurt is from the company Pacific Yurts (based out of Cottage Grove in Oregon), but we bought ours used and set it up ourselves. Here's a link to a blog post I wrote about setting it up: feelslikehomestead.com/2023/04/26/raising-the-yurt/ We've been very happy with it, and Pacific Yurts' costumer service is absolutely fantastic! In regards to the insulation, Pacific Yurt’s insulations is a 5/16” thick, seven layer, reflective insulation. It basically looks like a really fancy bubble wrap covered in aluminum foil. We've found that it stays warm inside as long as the fire is going, but if the fire dies on a cold night, it gets pretty chilly. In all fairness, we do have several large windows that aren't insulated, and our back door is in pretty rough shape and lets quite a bit of air through a couple big gaps.
Thank you, sweeties, for this video! Ignore the rude comments. Reading the testimonial below, I did go and get one for myself from the dollar store. My bachelor tenant of a decade had moved out, leaving the kitchen sink blocked. I was able to put the 'rooter' in each hole of the sink drain easily but had the devil of a time pulling it out. It was getting stuck at each tooth, for like, forever. And every time I managed to pull it out, the gunk that it was bringing up, kept falling back in. In the end, I had a backache from all the jerky pulls and pretty little to show for it, though clearly there was a lot of hair and gunk in there. God knows how so much hair got in the kitchen sink!
Great idea! Paint that bad boy black so the sun will warm the water up for you. Also maybe the pressure will be higher if you made the hose thicker yes more work but if you really wanted the pressure. It looks like you do have enough pressure just like you were saying so thank you for your video
So proud of you guys! Yall make a great team..we just moved ours outside tonight with a duck pen I built with lamp and it's own lil roost area with light ..just hope they make it..any tips would be very appreciated to my wife and I..we're not trying to get attached to them as once their old enough were letting them go at the lake I manage .. someone shot two of the ducks we had there and had them arrested so we got 5 more to add with the mature drake male that's alone where I work now.. crossing fingers.. again thanks for the vid..wife and I enjoyed it so much..👍
Wish would be more user friendly, like exact parts details in description, links to the parts like on Amazon, have to look how the items looks , keep rewinding it , not too helpful
Just put the tank in a black garbage bag. If you decide to paint it, put a strip of paint tape or masking tape top to bottom before painting. Then you can check your water level.
I know it's a mess and I'm sure you know by now. I like to keep the food and water separate too for the same reason, but I was told by a more experienced duck owner that you need to keep it together. I guess they like to mix it for some reason. lol I'm a new owner of 10 ducklings so I'm still learning.
Nice video. Just a little reminder that docks need water to flush their dry food down so maybe move the feeder right next to the waterer so they don't have to run back and forth.
Great upgrade! I admit I love to goodwill & scrounge too, lol... I've been thinking about using a sealed 5 - 30 gal container and a bicycle foot pump for the pressure (which can get 100 psi) (garden sprayers only get around 40psi)
They are the tallest of all ducks..but their also the most resilient too..just make sure you give them plenty of niacin ( dried mill worms or red worms or night crawlers) Pekin need loads of niacin because their so tall and when their chicks they get bent legs and crooked necks ..so make sure you give them plenty of worms..🙂
Thanks to our Houston “blizzard” I have no well or pipes in my house. Made a similar version of this. Effective 👍😁 A few other RU-vidrs do this full time.
