~ 1998 ~
Good Times, Bad Times – Rubble Trench Part II
What a difference a week can make. Russ called to let me know that he was out at our building site on Tuesday and completed the digging necessary to allow proper drainage of our rubble trench. Then...
Good Times, Bad Times – Rubble Trench Part I
From the start, there would be good times and bad times. This last week was one of those bad times. It all started out very promising but as you will read, things ended the week on a bad note. The...
Cabin Fever
The original plan was to build a room inside of the pole barn to use as temporary living quarters while I build our cordwood home. After tent camping inside of the pole barn I came to the following...
Excavation Begins!
Over the last week, Russ Wulf and Mike Barney have been busy digging into the hillside to level out an area approximately 65′ in diameter. The outside footings for the house will be...
First Quarter Update
The first quarter has come to an end and we have achieved most of our goals. The house design has been coming along nicely. We had an opportunity last week to meet with a couple of building...
The Second Great Wall of Cordwood
With the help of Jo, we got the second wall complete (Another 7′ x 54′ wall). That now makes about 24 face cords of wood stacked. I estimate that we have about another 4 to 5 more to go....