Slow

Off grid living should be re-named Patient Living, as you spend a great deal of time waiting.  You can be frustrated by this (I regularly am) or you can accept it and develop the fine art of waiting.

Waiting for the hot water to boil on the stove so we can wash, waiting for the batteries to charge up so we can watch an episode of Doctor Who, or just waiting for the weather to improve so you can leave the caravan without getting soaked to the skin and covered in mud.

If you're clever, you can fill these waiting gaps with other actviites.  Whilst you wait for the bath water to warm, you can clean the bathroom walls and floors and light a candle so that the bath feels extra nice.  

If you are waiting for the solar powers to charge up the batteries you can go outside and chop wood, walk a dog or four, draw a nice doctor who inspired picture or haul water if the tank is low.

Impatience is most likely to strike the younger members of our family, but it does strike me from time to time, and so I fill it with a sneaky bit of knitting or crochet, and then the waiting seems more bareable.

Sometimes you get so involved in the waiting that you forget that you're waiting...