When it comes to living off-the-grid, many people are confused by what it means. In a June 26 report on Mother Earth News, the topic gets an upfront and personal treatment from a couple who transitioned from fully-powered city living to rural off-the-grid living and made it work.
David and Victoria Miller had both grown up in metropolitan areas, she in the city of Seattle and he in a nearby suburb. David had been exposed to homesteading and living without commercially supplied electricity during summer vacations to his grandparents’ home in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains.
The couple moved to the family home, built between 1948 and 1949, in 2006. They are not connected to any commercial power source. While they are installing a solar electrical system, they currently do not have electricity full time. Instead, they rely on a generator that they run several times a month when they need to launder clothes and propane.
The refrigerator, freezer, hot water heater, stove, oven and lamps on the wall are all run on propane. Their heat is supplied by two wood stoves.
Victoria says she does not really miss the conveniences of city life and living the unplugged life 20 minutes outside of Seattle has given her roots and sense of belonging.
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