Ooooh, my baby done left meee... with a hole harf dug....

G'day
I'm Graham and i'm building a Homestead on 40 acres of raw Australian land and starting a small farm using Permaculture, and common sense to create a real future.
I will be going off grid while building the homestead but once there is a structure I will be connecting it to the main grid line. I don't believe the grid is an "enemy" like a lot of people, in fact i love it. The probability of the grid being shut down or destroyed is extremely low. The grid has given mankind the ability to be free from the shackles of the daily grind, merely existing and allowing us the chance to become far more than we ever could without it.
The real enemy as far as i can see is the system of control we live under, not the tools and technology within it. By using the tools and technology of the 21st century, i will be able to construct my homestead much faster, and focus my hard earned money on developing the farm, rather than spending large quantities of cash on inefficient systems of self sustainability.




https://youtu.be/QamhVHu4tcU

In this episode i finally kill the tractor for good. 
Unfortunately I don't get the dam dug and I miss the wet season . Without the dam it is going to be very hard to run any animals or grow so much as a blade of grass, so i have to come up with another plan. This video was taken about 3 months ago, about the same time as I started on steemit.
When I started steemit it was in the hope I would make enough money to fix the tractor but as you all know getting that kind of money out of steemit is harder that growing a crop in the desert. 

So, is the dream over?

No, I will never give up but it sure is going to change how and what i'm going to do with the farm. So unless there is a steemit Santaclaus I will not be getting the tractor running for some time, if ever.


From here I will be directing my energy at building a pole barn. The good part about that is most of the materials I need for that are growing right on the block, the tractor would have been handy to do some of the work but I will get around that with a bit of ingenuity.


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Cheers
THL