Tawny McVay || Bus + Homestead Life(@sincewewokeup) 인스타그램 상세 프로필 분석: 팔로워 692,846, 참여율 16.76%

Our story… • Hi my name is Tawny, and this is my home, a school bus named Oliver. • For five years I lived and traveled in this bus, and together we’ve been over quite a few roads, all the way from Alaska down to Mexico. • Between travels we had a home base in Montana, a small homestead we shared with family where we kept chickens and goats. • Last year we finally found a place that made us want to settle for good, so we packed up all those chickens and goats in a cargo van, and together with the bus we caravanned down to the Midwest, where we purchased ten acres of land in beautiful Missouri. • This valley is our dream, an abundant forest teeming with wildlife and plants and mushrooms, with a pond and streams flowing through it, and trees hundreds of years old. • There were a few existing structures, but the last year was one of solid work building the foundations of our new homestead, mostly from scratch. • First up were barns and fencing for all our animals, which was good because we had quite a few new faces join us along the way over the last year. • Then as spring arrived we turned our attention to building a greenhouse and garden, creating compost and water systems, and planting an orchard to supply as much of our own food as we possibly can. • We rounded out our first year by adding additional living space to Oliver in the form of a greenhouse style bathhouse with a tub and shower supplied by the natural spring, and an outdoor living area so we can continue to live outdoors as much as possible even though we aren’t traveling now. • We had a lot of amazing views out of these little bus windows during our travels, but its a different kind of joy now when I look out in the mornings and realize I, and Oliver, are finally home.

Two Years with Yul ✨ • If you’ve been around, you know this wee goat’s story. Born on the longest and coldest night of the year, rejected by his mother, and too weak to stand or nurse, this little solstice man entered the world and promptly turned mine upside down when the circumstances of his birth thrust me into the role of goat mom. • Two years later he’s a thriving, healthy member of the herd - and still an absolute mama’s boy. • Happy Birthday Yuli Patchouli, my buddy mans. When I cuddled you close to my heart that first night, I had no idea how deeply you would become embedded in it. I love you, little Julbock 💕

AD I🔋☀️This time of year, we get a ton of questions about homestead life in the winter, especially where the animals are concerned. • For two years, we went without power at the barn, dragging a power station back and forth to charge at the bus. This year, we finally installed a @renogyofficial ShadowFlux panel on the roof of the barn to give us a permanent source of power. This panel is perfect for winter; unlike most panels that lose output as soon as shade hits, ShadowFlux keeps generating power even under heavy shading. It’s built for higher efficiency and stronger performance, with long-term reliability backed by an amazing warranty. • Get the Renogy Shadowflux panel for yourself through the link in my bio! . . . . . #renogy #shadowflux #renogysolar

I always take extra joy in reading a book written by someone I also love following online. While I got lost in many books this year, these were my top five authored by people who also contribute to the online world in ways I admire. • 1. A Hymn to Human Beauty by @samuel.hurley - a follow up to last year’s Anthem For the Dreaming Lost, this book of short stories and poems explores what it means to be human in our modern world, touching on themes like AI, connection, finding beauty and romanticism in our daily lives, and human resilience. • 2. Original Sin is a Lie by @bobpeck - a profound look at the spectrum of spirituality and mystic wisdom and the perennial truths found embedded in all. Bob blends humor, scripture, advice from gurus from all walks, and personal anecdotes to create a beautiful path away from dogma and toward a more lasting universal truth. • 3. Make Believe by @thedailyvictorian - a collection of poems for hoping again, this sweet book reads like a best friend sitting across the table at the coffee shop telling you everything you needed to hear today. Victoria will have you believing life really is beautiful, even on hard days. • 4. Weathering by @ruthallen.geotherapist - this book, no pun intended, grounded me. Geotherapist Ruth Allen takes us back to ground level, and shows us how the earth’s own system of weathering is a profound model for us to build our own lives upon to similarly weather life’s storms. • 5. We Need Your Art by @inspiredtowrite - the book every creative needs to read. Amie delivers a friendly but much needed shove out the door to every artist in the pits of doubt, block, and imposter syndrome. With practical sections on moving through blocks and limiting beliefs next to the pep talks you didn’t know you needed, you will close this book believing in yourself and your art again. • What other creators you love to follow wrote books I need to read? This next year is coming up fast, give me your book recs and tag their authors for me ☺️ #bookrecs #booksarelife #bookstoread

I wanted an untraditional tree this year, and decided to create one using only decor I could forage or create myself. This woodland creatures themed one is what came out. • The tiny forest guardian with his wee glowing torch, which you can see at the very end of the reel, is absolutely my favorite detail, and my favorite part to make. • I wasn’t entirely sure how the clay animals would turn out, having never done anything like it before, but after watching a tutorial video on sculpting from a dear potter friend’s YouTube (linked in the pinned comment) and gaining some confidence, I decided to give it a go, and I’m so glad I did. My little menagerie includes all my favorites here in the valley - a wee snake, raccoon, owl, squirrel, fox, and two birds. • I think my sweet little acorn friend needs a name now…

Autumn at the Quack Shack 🦆

Freyja + Odin = pretty little babies 🐾 • These five have brought us so much joy over the last ten weeks, and watching our big man and sweet girl become parents and start training their brood in the ways of guardianship has been amazing. • LGDs (Livestock Guardian Dogs) are very special breeds, depended on in areas like ours with heavy predator activity to keep livestock animals safe. Their instincts - to bond with the animals in their care instead of chase them, make independent decisions about threats, and put those threats down if necessary - are truly special. Freyja and Odin are not just friends here, they have the most important job on the place keeping everyone else safe. • These five begin to go to their new homes/jobs this week after a solid start with mom and dad, with every promise of living up to the potential of their parents. It’s going to be so hard to say goodbye, but it’s a beautiful thing, knowing even more animals will be safe as they become protectors in their own right. • I couldn’t let them go without giving them a permanent place in the feed though, so please enjoy the ridiculous cuteness of Loki and his sisters, Nyx, Saga, Skadi, and Hela!

After a summer of work (and two years of dreaming), we finally have a tiny guest home to welcome friends and family to. • We renovated and added onto an existing prebuilt shed to create this little retreat nestled on a hill above the creek. It isn’t completely finished (the inside is still a work in progress), but I couldn’t wait to share this little sneak peek of the outside now she’s painted and nearing completion. • Welcome to The Nest 🍂

This summer carried on the steady rhythm of life here in the valley - long days in the garden, the usual array of chores, and afternoons reading to my favorite little goat. • It also brought new joys. Freyja and Odin became parents to five beautiful puppies, we began the process of turning an existing shed into a tiny guest home for friends and family, and I started writing my second book. • To be honest, I’ve been slowly writing it for a decade in journals and scribbled thoughts on scraps of paper and notes on my phone. It’s fragile, a piece of my story so vulnerable and scary for me to share with a world that often seems bent on destroying everything beautiful I’m not sure I will ever be brave enough to publish it. • And yet - I’ve spent the last months immersed in bringing all these scattered pieces together to construct the bones, in stringing them into some semblance of order to see how they move and flow, experimenting and adding and dreaming, allowing space for the idea that, just maybe, this fragile skeleton of words might someday be my second book. • I decided to start here, where I’ve shared so much of the more forward-facing story, by simply showing up again, starting by welcoming you into a day of life here on the farm as summer fades and autumn begins hurling her colors over the landscape. Welcome back to the valley friends 💕

A few weeks ago I posted my own raw words trying to encompass what we are witnessing unfold. Today, I’m posting those of my friend @samuel.hurley instead, because I can’t possibly find better ones. • This message is beyond political lines - it’s a plea to our shared humanity. When children are dying preventable deaths on a daily basis, when 1/3 of a population is going days between a meal while the world watches, we are beyond words - action must happen. • You can call or write your state representatives and tell them you demand action for immediate aid. You can choose to donate to one of the many NGOs trying to get aid through - @savethechildren is one I’ve chosen based on my research. If you have a platform to speak, even if it’s a tiny one, you can use it, and if you can’t find the words, choose instead to amplify one of the many voices who already have. • I often feel helpless, watching the horrors unfolding in real time on social media, sandwiched between ads and funny dog videos like some surreal dystopian nightmare, a slow erosion of our empathy through desensitization. But we aren’t helpless, not as long as we are willing to continue witnessing and speaking out and calling on world leaders to make changes. • Even if your voice shakes, even if you’re afraid of saying it wrong, even if others try to silence or distort or detract from the message - never be afraid to speak up for what you know to be right.

Odin 🐾 • Awhile back we celebrated our big man’s first birthday - still very much a puppy some days, but growing every day more and more into his full potential as Freyja’s partner. While she patrols the fence lines, Odin displays a very deep loyalty to the herd, and spends most of his time roaming the pasture with them. • We’ve been so impressed with his natural instincts and disposition. Livestock guardians are generally not trusted solo until 18 months, but this calm and steady soul has seemed to understand from the beginning he has a purpose here, and required almost no training toward that end. • While he loves Freyja, his best bud is clearly Yul, and he follows my buddy mans around like he’s a personal bodyguard. If you look through these photos, you’ll notice a little Solstice goat in most of them. • The first photo is my favorite of him, at six months - swipe to see him grow up 🥹

We can’t stop bad things from happening, but we can continue to pour good into the world to help even the balance 💕