by Alan Stankevitz | Apr 1, 1998
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 contractors / excavators. We wanted to get their input as to what areas were...
by Alan Stankevitz | Feb 8, 1998
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. That puts us real close to what we will need for our total...
by Alan Stankevitz | Nov 29, 1997
With my measly kerosene heater in hand, I was able to stack the first row of wood. The wall is 8′ high and almost 54′ long. It’s necessary to stack the wood for a few of reasons. The first reason is to determine really how much wood I’ve got....
by Alan Stankevitz | Nov 19, 1997
Somewhere behind the pile of wood is what was the nicely stacked wood. The wood shown here is two truck loads worth of wood (24′ long Ryder truck). We didn’t have time to stack the wood because… The plan was to get the wood moved into the shed on...
by Alan Stankevitz | Oct 20, 1997
Here’s a view of our newly built road. This picture was taken near the front entrance looking up the hill (North). From here the road goes up to a somewhat “flat” plateau area and runs adjacent to a rectangular hay field that’s about 7...
