Venting the Greenhouse

Late last summer I completed the construction of our 14′ x 20′ greenhouse. I decided to build the greenhouse from scratch instead of buying a kit because I really didn’t like the fact that the kits don’t allow for the sides to be removed or in...

Revisiting Our Home’s Heat Load

On February 27, 2000 I discussed our solar heating design and in that article I briefly touched on the subject of determining our home’s heat load. At the time, there wasn’t a whole lot of information on the internet about the subject and I used a heat...

Testing…1-2-3…Testing.

  Are we live? Testing 1-2-3. Testing. It’s hard to believe but yes, we are back up and running again on a new hosting platform. I have a TON of stuff to do to get DayCreek up to full speed, but at least things have finally been ported over to a non-Windows...

Harvesting the Sun’s Energy

The digital electric meter has been installed, the contract has been signed and finally the sun is shining. To know that clean, renewable energy is powering our house and the surplus is going out on the wire to help power our neighbor’s homes is quite...

Waning Moonfest

Attempting to schedule Moonfest during a full moon has become quite a challenge, so we have now diversified into all phases of the moon. June 12th was about the only Saturday in the months of May and June that all our friends could make the event, so Moonfest became...