Making My House Choices Fit My Life Choices
MEETING FOR THE WEEK OF April 28, 2025
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Program: Making My House Choices Fit My Life Choices
Speaker: Ariel McGlothin
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PROGRAM: Making My House Choices Fit My Life Choices
SPEAKER: Ariel McGlothin
We bring you a new program every week on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education and how they contribute to service to others.
A little over seven years ago, we had a program from this week's speaker that is one of the most-watched programs our club has shared with the world. It's focused on the fascinating topic of tiny homes.
Today we'll have a chat about how Ariel's life has grown and changed since the last program with our club. Was living in a tiny house the right decision for her circumstances? What is she doing now? How many of the things she was doing then have stayed the same? What has changed over the years? Are there choices she regrets or would do differently in hindsight? How has she worked to make her housing choices fit pursuing what is important to her larger life goals?
Our speaker is Ariel McGlothin. Ariel, along with her husband Clay, their dogs, cats, bees, and poultry, strive to live a simple and regenerative life in the mountains of western Wyoming on their little homestead. They collect and split wood for heating, gravity feed water from a natural spring, use a composting toilet, do laundry by hand and dry it with the latest in solar & wind technology, store some crops in a root cellar, can/ferment/dehydrate/freeze others, and attempt to grow, hunt, or forage as much of their own food as possible between the weather and wildlife.
Ariel loves to share the skills she has learned with others. She tries to share real life around their place. The good and the bad. The ups and the downs. What works, and what doesn't. The parts she loves (most of it!), and the things she doesn't. Not just the romantic idea of "homesteading" or a more self-sufficient life, but the everyday details of this lifestyle. She hopes to help others learn from her mistakes and make life just a little easier for anyone else interested in pursuing a similar lifestyle. They live in a somewhat harsh and cold climate at a little over 6000 feet above sea level tucked into the mountains, but enjoy the stunning scenery and wildlife that they are surrounded by on a daily basis. When not busy in the garden, taking care of the animals, or cooking something, Ariel really enjoys spending time reading, hiking, and photographing the natural world around her.
Members and guests, please welcome Ariel McGlothin!
To learn more, go to:
Find Ariel, wildlife & nature photography at any of these spots:
https://arielcelestephotography.zenfolio.com
https://youtube.com/fynyth
https://odysee.com/@FyNyth:d
https://rumble.com/c/c-5592588
Lots of info from my first years in the tiny house:
https://fynyth.blogspot.com
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