Dreaming Tiny

I guess you get to a certain time in your life when you wish it was simple. Juggling bills and loan repayments, thinking about whether you will have enough money to retire on when you can't seem to save enough for a holiday. Or if the hot water system blows, how will you pay for it.

Working full time and managing financially ok but just ok, treading water...  Living reasonably well but are we really living. Like that old adage "work to live or live to work".

We dream of self sufficiency, living on the fruit and vegetables we grow, the eggs from our chooks and harnessing solar power. Living on a suburban block we have the chooks and vegetables going, our 12 or so espaliered and dwarf fruit trees are yet too small to fruit, and the solar power gives us some savings on the electricity bills. 

But we want more....or actually less..

We talk about land somewhere and a tiny house. Wind and solar power, composting toilet, fruit trees, veges and goats, making our own cheeses and bread, preserving what we grow.

But how? Are two people who grew up in the burbs cut out for going country? I honestly don't know. I'd like to try but once again it comes down to $ and permanent employment. Even if we sell up everything it wouldn't last long. Sure we could buy land and a little house and set ourselves up with a bit left over but country towns aren't known for employment opportunities and I think total self sufficiency is a bit of a myth. Money is still needed for some things.

Well I'm going to bed and dream a little more of my tiny house....maybe dreams can come true....