I dont see the problem with my answer. The problem is that you guys cannot understand that the climate can vary based on elevation, location and nearby bodies of water.
Or the fact that its all sand here which does not hold the heat of the day. At night it gets colder here fast.
Its just common sense weather stuff.
doesn't sound like a climate for a off grid homesteader. You claim you can't do anything when snow is on the ground- even gave up brushing snow off your solar panels. The electric and propane bills to heat that shack must be outrageous and you can't have a winter garden- something a homesteader relies on for food. Soil is sand that doesn't hold moisture or nutrients but you chose that place in a depressed area of Michigan thinking it would be a great place to what???? Doesn't sound like a place anybody would want to live.