Our home while working on Sheldon is Badger Cabin, on Badger Mountain (and I saw a Badger yesterday while nest-seaching. It was funny and waddled around). Here at Badger we lack things such as electricity and running water, but have views of the sagebrush, a washers court, and other excellent things. This is our horsealope skull, which guards the cabin. The house wren perching on the antler is nesting in the brain cavity. 
Though we are in the middle of the sagebrush, we have quite a few amenities. Here is our lovely outdoor shower - just hang your towel on the deer antler, divert the spring, hook up the pump to the 12V car battery, and crank up the propane heater.
We can only get AM radio out here...FM won't come in. Most of what we do get on the field truck radios is conservative talk radio. So, after a day of work, we can hear excessively patriotic music, opinions such as "wind power will never work cause windmills were invented in the dark ages," and overuse of the phrase "You're a great American."
Our water comes from a small spring near the cabin, and the little pool below it doubles excellently as a beer cooler. Although, being in the spring the labels get rather sun-bleached and it is sometimes necessary to scrape algae of your bottle before opening it up. 
A Badger Cabin sunrise (we see a lot, starting work at dawn when the birds awake).
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