Off Grid Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope you all had an amazing holiday!

This Christmas, I house sat an off grid farm! This was probably the most eventful house sitting experience of my life! It was a mix of nightmarish, yet awesome experiences!

The Good Things!

The peace and quiet! I was able to do a lot of concept art for my novels, and also draft a new one!

The writing couch!

Chris Chilling in the living room

Thought I would try some charcoal art.

Concept art

 The good food, clean air, the view, the animals...

Chris loves this horse!

The Bad Things!

- I was super sick from something I ate my first night! Was throwing up, had a hard time walking, and my vision was blurry. 

- On Christmas night, someone came into the house while we were away and left the stove open! That was freaky! They also ditched their truck on the driveway. The one nice thing about small towns is that you find out who did it eventually, which I did! They were super drunk and didn't know what they were doing.....apparently!

The ditched truck

 - I got a speck of hay in my eye, which sliced through the upper sclera (White of the eye)! Had to go to the hospital, because I was in a lot of pain, and my eye was swelling up severely! The wait time was four hours, but I got in half an hour later, cause I was starting to get feverish. They put a lot of drops in my eye, then washed it out with this weird eye wash thing, that took 15-20min. It was super scary, because they left me in a dark room with it attached to my eyeball, and didn't tell me when they were coming back! All in all, I survived, and its starting to heal nicely! 

Hospital selfie

 The family who owns this farm should be coming back tonight! Despite the few scary things that occurred this week, I'm glad I stayed! Super thankful that my brother Christopher stayed with me too. He was extremely helpful!

Chris shovelling off the solar panels for me!

 As I mentioned earlier, Chris and I did go home for Christmas! I got lots of lovely gifts this year! Mostly items that will be helpful when traveling, and also a super cool writing pen! It was fun watching my siblings open gifts too! Then in the evening, we had an amazing dinner! 

Christmas is probably my favourite holiday ever!

The gag gifts!

Hot water bottle raccoon Nancy got me!

Two more weeks till Africa! Its coming up so fast!