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💚i looked at the tangled, brambled clearing in the forest of this island. gigantic ferns which towered over my head danced with the trees in the sea breeze with the treetops which sung in a harmonious rustling like an oceans roar or the sound of a rainfall as the wind coaxed them to do so. i had decided to rent this little space for 250 a month, and now it was mine. well, sort of. this little lot, an acre of land, partially overtaken by lava once in the past, but long since dried.

"hm." i thought. "I wont enjoy this in the meantime, but I'm already prepared.

i turned around and walked to the strange, little caravan being pulled by the go cart  painted to look like gold. people often wondered how the caravan so large could be pulled by a little go cart, but it was made entirely of thick six inch boards of Styrofoam with a mildly heavy plastic floor to keep the structure from tipping over. but the casual on looker may assume it was just a normal caravan somehow being pulled by this go cart, and be confused. the color of the caravan was a white but it was made on the outside with fake, Styrofoam boards that looked like they had been painted white, and an onlooker would assume the boards were real.

the windows were very odd, shaped like teardrops upside down and right side up to fit together, with fake plastic stained glass of many shades of pale purplish blues, and the window sills has little window gardens in rounded half baskets that had multiple types of air plants nestling inside them. the edges of the roof  had plastic rounded gold colored bells on red strings handing from it in various arrays, the roof and door colored gold. the roof was carved to look like it has shingles and painted gold, and the door was carved to look like a door with a window of fake plastic purple and blue stained glass cut into the door. and the walls of the home were covered in stucco with mesh wiring underneath the stucco. various designs of hearts and circlets and swirls were carved deeply into the stucco and filled with molten translucent amber colored plastic with fake butterflies inside, to look like amber, of course. the wheels were bike wheels, also painted to look like gold, with brass rose shaped doorknobs melded to the center of the wheels. and on the very top of the roof of the caravan, was a large bonsai made of various types of angels trumpets trees, all wound laced and intertwined and grafted together to form a single tree, with every single kind of angels trumpet. the tree had a rainbow of the large, bell shaped flowers which hung from its spindly branches, all displayed in various array. the pot itself was a cheap plastic pot, but it sat inside a large Styrofoam purple decorative pot that looked expensive and heavy but was in fact cheap and light. 

the door had a wreath of dried lavender and eucalyptus, and little pots hung at either side of the door and were filled with dried lavender and eucalyptus as well. and on the door was written my name. "Lilacia" (pronounced lie lah see ah)  in red, from like in the elvish language that was like from that movie where the dude is a midget and he he has a magic ring or something and he has giant hairy feet. i wonder if his toenails were so big he would use up half the bottle of nail polish

i had spent a year in this caravan not wanting to be trapped in a lease because i was knowing any moment i could find the perfect bit of land, and also because of that i wanted to save money. so i built this thing out of Styrofoam and plastic and filled it with inflatable furniture and a Styrofoam table. i made the outside real pretty cus people tend to be more willing to let you park something somewhere if its pretty. i would park this thing on orchard after orchard, working temp jobs picking the nuts and fruit from the trees and would be payed by weight of what i gathered, but if i agreed to work for cheaper i could park the caravan on the land itself. i would also make money by working online and writing articles and surveys, and make a tiny stream of money from my blog to. i would work at the commissary on Sundays and Saturdays though, for the entire day both days, and i would make hundreds that way, and despite only being paid in tips i was a bagger, and a commissary worker gets to pick their own hours. 

i would also buy food from the commissary, but i would get my groceries in other, more interesting ways as well. i would also go into the woods and get to know the area and forage some food to, or if i was near a beach, collect sea urchins, sea cucumbers, the occasional wild lobster,or oysters and muscles which plagued the rocks in abundance , and limpets, and craps and various types of mollusks. 

i would go fishing and collect fish with fish traps. i would also catch octopus sometimes which were really a real treat. i would farm crickets and meal worms in my house at home, and i would hunt chickens and turkeys and pidgins with traps, as well as crows. i would dry salt out of ocean water and keep it for myself, boiling it in a pot. and i would preserve all these by drying them and keeping them in large zip lock bags.  and i would eat all these things, making thai coconut sea urchin stew, with a side of mashed green papaya. i would also weave baskets and make beautiful things out of wood and exchange them for food or sell them, or trade some of my food for other types of food.  the only food i ended up having to pay for after a few months of practice, was ramen, rice, and beans. and that in of itself, was not a lot of cost. i had access to the commissary because i had a member ship, and so i was allowed to go there and purchase commissary foods as i pleased, and be able to get a bag of brown rice, and only pay like 15 cents for the rice per meal. sometimes i would also buy large fish heads and fish scraps, and i would also get a lot, a LOT, of pork on clearance. 

one thing i would do, is put hanging plant baskets and flower pots way up into the canopy in the forest, and make hidden gardens in the trees no one could find, and climb the trees to collect my tomatoes, basil, lemon grass, ect. i was able to swing through the trees from branch to branch like i was flying. i had read this from a book once, and always wanted to learn to have this ability. so i practiced, and learned. 

i would have my caravan pulled by a street legal golf cart instead of a car, because it took much less energy to run, and then i put it on solar panels. why did i do all these things? because i wanted to be spending as little money as possible, so i could save money for my self sufficient land that would be all my own.

and as my garden grew more and more abundant, and all i would have as a set monthly pay, was rent. 

currently, i was living in my caravan and working on a nearby macadamia nut orchard, but i plan to travel back and forth between here and the orchard, working by the orchard but also coming here as well to build my future home and continue to work on it. soon, i would also rent a single acre of farm land for sixty dollars a single acre, a local land lord already said he would allow me to do so after he evicts a current farmer. and i would grow my abundant self sufficient farm there. 

my pet dwarf rat named Beatrice was waiting for me inside my caravan, and i needed to feed her soon, so i stepped inside ready to give her her minnows i caught her, as well as various scraps and meal-worms. besides, i had made her a new little dress and i wanted her to try it out, and weaved a new little carpet for the dollhouse she lived in, and i was sure she was starting to smell and needed to be bathed and have more of my whole made plumeria water combed into her honey colored fur. also, i had some thai coconut sea urchin soup cooking and i wouldn't have it over-boiling. 💚