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When It Rains, It Pours — Literally

By Day 16 of this off-grid camper saga, we thought we’d seen the worst.No furnace? Been there.Frozen boots? Survived that.Mental unraveling? Flirted with it. But rain? In January?In Northern Ontario? Come on. — It started as a light drizzle tapping the roof. We welcomed it, briefly — anything but snow felt like a reprieve. But […]

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Two Weeks Without Heat, and Somehow… We’re Still Here

It’s been 14 days without heat in our camper. Not off-grid heat. Not flickering. Not unreliable.None. Outside: sub-zero Northern Ontario cold.Inside: survival. Every single day. At this point, it isn’t just about enduring. It’s about adapting. We’ve gotten better at it — not by choice, but through sheer necessity. We’ve layered up, boiled water on

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Short Sleeves and Long Delays

Today, I woke up and didn’t see my breath.No candles needed. No icy shock stepping out of the sleeping bag.The inside of the camper was 18°C. I’m wearing a short-sleeved shirt. In January. In Northern Ontario. The weather broke — just a little — and suddenly, everything feels more possible. The milk barn heater, our

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Still No Heat, But Not Broken

It’s been eight days.Eight days of waking up to 10°C inside the camper — or colder.Eight days of resetting a broken furnace by hand. Of tracking down motors, models, and maybe-fixes. Of booting up candle heat before coffee. But we’re okay. We’ve found ways to make it work: Sleeping bags that feel like small miracles.

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Plans, Predicaments, and Propane – Surviving One Cold Decision at a Time

It’s day four without a working furnace.But it’s not all gloom — we’ve got layers, barn heaters, and just enough stubbornness to keep going. We started this morning bundled up like marshmallows, half-laughing and half-freezing as we tried to figure out whether the floor was 16°C or our toes just gave up trying to feel.Turns

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Storms, Space Heaters & Survival

It’s Saturday — at least, I think it is.Time starts to blur when you’re pacing between a flickering furnace and a snowstorm that won’t quit. Last night, the temperature outside dropped to -22°C. Inside our camper? Not much better. The furnace — that finicky, fragile lifeline — gave us about five minutes of heat before

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