Finding a home

My husband worked up in Idaho and loved it... I'm a city girl, Love animals and wanted some peace from neighbors and people more interested in my life than theirs. Why don' we look for a home and property in North Idaho??? of course my answer was I'm not moving up to North Idaho!!! Ok, we came up to look and went to the Moyie Springs Mud Bog and had a wonderful time. Its the only place where you can drink and drive and drive through the mud all at one time.
Since he got me up here now we could look at the availability of homes and property. We looked and found a home(modern farm house type) with 90 acres!!! 90 acres, what in the world are we going to do with 90 acres??? Now the most important part it is off Grid.. What does that mean??? Oh yes, No power to the home from any electrical source. Soar panels, 12 batteries, back up generator, 1000 gallon propane tank,and a wood stove. I asked Steve (my husband) Do you know anything about this? Of course, no problem he said. Oh boy, loved the home, view and could see possibilities for a barn, garden, shop and some peace and quiet. We bought it Hook line and sinker. We sold our house in Southern California and decided to move our permanent home to Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Now we were currently living in our 5th wheel in Bar stow California. Ok, My husband works in construction and we moved temporally where the job is. We both knew that was a 10 year plan so we could move to our home in Bonners Ferry when he retired. In 10 years time we could build the barn, shop and other out buildings and proper items like water to the barn and other things like power to the buildings. I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into but Steve kept saying "No problem". Sure, I love you honey and I believed him... We moved in September and was full of wonderful dreams that we could live a self reliant life off the land and it would be Free!!!