First Post: Introduction

Hello and welcome to our blog! We are getting ready to begin building our new, tiny, portable home: the Tumbleweed Fencl. Our hope is to keep a thorough log of our building process with plenty of pictures of every stage of construction. Our endstate: a small simple home we can take with us wherever we go, soundly built to meet our needs and within our modest building budget.

It might take a lot of folks by surprise that we will be moving a family of seven into a 130 sq ft house. Is that so crazy? Well, our first idea was a tipi, so this is actually a pretty big step up in modern conveniences. We have found in our experience that lots of space in a house is rarely optimal. There is more to clean, it's harder to keep track of little ones, there's more temptation to acquire a bunch of stuff we don't need in order to fill the space… In our current 1900 square foot house, we spend 90% of our time in 10% of the house. So shrinking our footprint and adopting a much simpler and more efficient lifestyle is a challenge we are excited to embrace. Our biggest challenge for now will be finding the time to work on the construction between our daily duties of training for deployment and deploying, plus raising, caring for and homeschooling five small children. The trailer has already been ordered and is currently being built to meet our specifications. It should be complete in the next week or two, at which point I will begin the construction. So keep checking in every so often and see how the progress goes!