by Alan Stankevitz | Dec 23, 2003
Home for the Holidays It’s been a while since I last wrote and well, there has been a lot of things going on other than working on the house. After Thanksgiving, I spent a couple of weeks at the house making holiday gifts for family and friends. The house has...
by Alan Stankevitz | Nov 25, 2003
Strange Times in the Twilight Zone For the last few years, I have been watching every November for the Leonid meteor shower and it has never been disappointing. (Even when I had to drive to Tennessee for clear skies!). Last year’s event produced the most meteors...
by Alan Stankevitz | Nov 8, 2003
Got the Cloudy Weather Blues It’s bad enough for the psyche when the weather turns dark and gray, but it doesn’t help with the heating bill either. Nine straight days of cloudy weather has pretty much depleted all of the solar heat storage and in doing so,...
by Alan Stankevitz | Oct 26, 2003
Snap, Crackle, Pop – Cordwood Wall Sounds Lately I’ve had a hankerin’ for Rice Krispies® and I just can’t figure out why. Could it be that the cordwood walls have been talking to me again? Yes, those three strange sounds once heard while...
by Alan Stankevitz | Oct 19, 2003
Autumn Joy – Cordwood Wall Update Seventeen more walls to go! That’s not so bad considering I started with 64. Of course, that was a few years ago, but who’s counting the years? It’s been a slow process, but it’s fun watching the house...
by Alan Stankevitz | Oct 5, 2003
DayCreek Open House Two years ago (our last open house) it poured rain all day, but this year the weather was much better. The sun played hide and seek with the clouds, but didn’t spoil the Solar Tour of Homes. Visitors started arriving by 10 AM and there was...
