by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 14, 1999
1999 by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 26, 2017 One of the few items farmed out for construction are the roof trusses. If I put my mind and muscle to it, I suppose I could have built the roof from scratch but I decided to cheat a little. I ordered the trusses about four weeks...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 7, 1999
1999 by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 26, 2017 Build It and They Will Come Now that my master plan is complete you might as well know that I’m really not building a 16 sided cordwood house. It is a landing pad for the aliens from the planet “Stackwallon”...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jul 31, 1999
1999 by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 26, 2017 Surely You Joist, Things are Getting Batty Up Here! But don’t call me Shirley! Well, it’s been another week of excessive heat. I won’t go into the gory details, but I will mention that the heat index was over...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jul 25, 1999
1999 by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 26, 2017 This week was highlighted by the weather, again. A frontal boundary decided to camp out over Southeastern Minnesota for about four days. During that period, the area was plagued by numerous thunderstorms. As you can see, the...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jul 18, 1999
1999 by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 26, 2017 The majority of the week was spent building the joists to support the walk-around deck. The joists are constructed out of 2 x 8’s attached to 2 x 10’s. The 2 x 10’s are secured to the ends of the 16 girders and...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jul 11, 1999
1999 by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 26, 2017 We’re Not in Kansas Anymore It’s a little difficult to see in the photo on the right, but this is a wall cloud produced by a mesoscale thunderstorm that passed to the North last Thursday. This same storm spawned an F2...
