We wanted to live our life, not pay someone else do do everything for us while we worked crazy hours to fund it all.

Love this!! I like so many of the things you say here. Playing devil's advocate though...you know a lot of people would not do what you are doing with your same consideration for the environment. Thus you might get folks turning a nearby stream into their toilet and voila, rules about septic tanks and so on...So how do you strike that balance between anarchy and ensuring total freedom doesn't cause a different form of harm? (I'm on the side of freedom but getting everyone to be considerate with it is a challenge that leads to way too many laws IMO. I have yet to see anyone solve that conundrum).

In keeping with my noticing weird details....that's really Wren plastering that wall? Topless?? OMG you are my heroine. Here I thought I was daring for running around braless. Made the neighbors coming over unexpectedly last night a tad awkward😂. (Did you guys do the tattoo post and I missed it?)