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Welcome
Welcome back to DayCreek.com. Daycreek.com was originally established in 1997 to chronicle our cordwood house-building adventure here in southeast Minnesota.
For those wondering, we love our cordwood house and can’t say enough good things about the house and living out in the sticks. It’s been a blast and hope to bring many more journal entries and videos to you as we move forward in our continuing adventure!
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—Alan Stankevitz
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Am I Harming the Monarch Butterfly?
Over the past year I have been doing my best to help the monarch butterfly—both in our prairie, gardens and greenhouse. This summer was the first full season for the swamp milkweed that I planted in our greenhouse in 2018 and these giant plants definitely attracted...
Under-Sizing a Solar Array Inverter
Times have changed since the last time I installed a solar array 16 years ago. Back in those days, it was common to right-size or over-size an inverter based on the size of the solar array. In our particular case, I installed 4kW worth of solar panels and (2) 2.5kW...
6.4kW Solar Panel Installation – Part II
I really believed that we'd be lucky to have our solar array up and running by May knowing how our spring weather can be and not knowing how Scott from Viking Electric would be able to squeeze in this job. And as it turned out those issues were small compared to the...
Current Weather at Day Creek
