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Welllll . . . We, well, not no more it's just me, and a lot of space . . our once family, wife Alanna and daughter Arwen Evenstar are/were backwoodzers, in what is left of the most rugged pristine parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Sequestered and solitary, surrounded by rugged hills, hardwood on the west ridge, mostly spruce around our home and along the craggy east ridge. We are some what self sufficient and live on a non-maintained road that we have to snow-machine out three miles in the winter to where we winter park. We live a house that I have been building as time but mostly money allows. We're off the grid and use solar panels and batteries for most of our juice, though this time of year we have to supplement it with a generator back-up. Our other big luxury is satellite internet, wow, they live where moose and bear wander across their clearing and they have net hook up? Hurray for the 21st century, well at least to some degree. I moved out to this land in 99 after somehow managing to acquirer type 2 diabetes. Had bought this land a couple years prior while still working as an over the road trucker. Had a twenty foot tipi pitched on it and would land for several weeks at a time. The diabetes put the skids to my trucking that I had been involved in for eight years previous and as I couldn’t find a responsible driver I had to dump the tractor and trailer, ouch, big time hit, big time loss. I married five years ago and up until recently have been real content, and actually able to sleep at night. After I married I extended the then 14x24 foot cabin with full loft 26 feet out the back and made it two story. Along the way I also built a Potting Shed for my then future wife, a Garden Shed, for my then future wife’s gardening tools, a small but unique Tool Shed for my chain saws, axes, augers, all that stuff that guys have to make the work around a homestead easy, screws, nuts, bolts, nails, wrenches (notice I said wrenches and not wenches, they live in the house). I had put up a sauna as soon as I finished the main cabin, which I must check real soon as I’ve had the fire going all day and it is just about ready. When low on dough we make do with what nature provides us with, as far as creating this vision goes. A big lake just over the west rise provides us with ample driftwood and rocks. So when times are slow financially I build wonderful little fairy fences and meditation benches all over the 40 acres. Clear thick patches of spruce thinning them, and as I have so many burly spruce use the cleared ones for building, like the porches and furniture whatever I can come up with. The remaining I trim the branches way up with a pole saw in winter while on snow shoes and on a three foot snow pack, that gives an airy lofty cathedral magical aura. Then I establish trails, through the woods and along the creek, building benches in secluded spots with panoramic vistas and wind chimes high in the trees, what you then get when you sit down is instant ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . . . the nasty world with all it’s woes looks so much better. We have named our place “Dreamwalkers” , kind of like talk the talk, walk the walk. We dream the dreams then try to bring them forth into what us humans consider reality. Walking around our land especially spring and summer amid the flowers and smells is like taking a walk through our imaginations