Me, An Introduction

 My name is Sierra. I am 29 years old, and the oldest of 6 kids. I live in Madras, a small town in the beautiful Central Oregon. I am a Certified Veterinary Technician, and I work in a mixed animal veterinary clinic in Redmond. 

I am a little bit country and a little bit gypsy. I am a homesteader/prepper at heart, but I long to see new places and travel the world. I am a collector of the written word (like I literally had over 1000 books at one point), and someday I would love to write a few books of my own. 

I live on 0.75 of an acre with my mom and all my siblings, their spouses and their children. There is 12 people, 5 different households, all trying to live in a small space and get along. It gets crazy busy, loud, and hectic, and the washing machine, bathrooms and kitchen are always full! There are a lot of clashing lifestyles and differences of opinion with so many people, but overall we manage to keep it somewhat peaceful. 

I own a small 10x12 rent-to-own shed that I am slowly but surely converting into a tiny house. I know nothing about building or tools, but I am hoping that this will be a learning process for me, and I will definitely be sharing parts of that journey here. 

In my free time, I enjoy reading books, coloring, listening to music, and playing video games on either my ps4 or my gaming laptop. I am trying to build a YouTube channel for my gaming, and I would love to eventually make videos for my tiny house process as well. 

I have two cats that mean the world to me, I am sure you will see them often. 

Juniper is 4 years old. Our neighbor found her as a sick little kitten and my mom and sister gifted her to me to replace my cat Faith who had recently passed away. I nursed her back to health, and as a kitten she used to go to school with me because we were homeless/living out of our cars at the time I got her. We have a very close bond, closer than any animal I have ever had. She is fierce and sassy at times, but she is very affectionate and always seems to know when the depression is settling in or I have had a rough day at work. 

 

And then there's Rasta, he is a goof ball that always gives me a reason to laugh. He is 3 years old. I found him and his 4 siblings in a slash pile near our house. Their mom had been hit by a car on the highway, and all the kittens were trying to climb up on the road to reach her, almost getting hit themselves. We dug 4 of them out of the slash pile and I took them home, then on a hunch, I decided to go back out to the pile to look again. And there he was, he was all alone, sitting at the entrance to their den wondering where all his brothers and sisters had gone. He was the runt, but he had such a loving, goofy spirit, I knew I could not rehome him. Juniper was not thrilled to have a brother (she is still ticked off about it I think), but she adjusted pretty quickly.

Well, there you have it, that is me. 

Ttfn,Sierra