Off grid living | Update on the house and adobe brick mix 

keep the top of your batteties clean.. you will get a electrical path between the post and get a faster discharge of your battery banks.

If you can separate a few solar panels with a 12 volt battery, you can have a very efficient solar circuit, for something like lighting. Avoid batteries in parallel. I like Crown CR-220 golf cart batteries in series for the most bang for the buck. A solar trick is point half your panels largely east and one half largely west. You lose total watts but your charge duration will increase. = worth it.

Kool watching the progress

We just made the plunge a couple weeks ago close to Benson.. thnx for sharing

make all your doors and hall ways wheel chair wide , my son had to use a wheel chair and destroyed the door frames and halls

Your progress is coming right along! It seems like you always have a breeze!

when we built our house we staked out all the room and ran ribons for the walls , realized the kitchen was way to small .

its going to be nice house

Can't wait till you start building

thanks, for the update. larry is one lucky rooster. just saying

Do you have a foolproof way for finding vacant desert land?

get yourself a heatpump water heater, and replace the electric element with a small resistor and you can have full size tank that heats on about 400 watts. I can give you more info if you'd like it.

your old lady is out of your league