Doo Doo Doo Lookin’ Out My Front Door

Just got home from Illinois lock the front door oh boy!… In the immortal words of CCR: Doo, Doo, Doo, Lookin’ Out My “Front” Door. Okay…the title has been slightly modified, but it’s my journal. I can do anything I want. So there!...

Cordwooder’s Dream Machine

A Cordwooder’s Dream Machine I can vividly remember the day that I first started using a cement mixer instead of mixing mortar in a wheelbarrow using a hoe—what a difference it made! Instead of it taking 15 minutes of mixing ingredients by hand, I could now mix...

Back to Work

View from in back of the house (hillside) It’s about time for an update on what’s going on around here! With the CoCoCo a thing of the past you would think that I would be busy with house by now…well…I’m actually just about ready to work...

Increase Your Fuel Mileage

The Honda Insight What constitutes price gouging? How do you define it? If the price varies by 50 cents over the course of a 250 mile trip, is that considered price gouging? If the price varies by 30 cents over a 2 mile area, is that considered price gouging? In the...

227 CoCoCo Nuts

The 2005 Continental Cordwood Conference How often do you get to meet Richard Flatau, Jack Henstridge, Rob Roy, Cliff Shockey and Dr. Kris Dick all in one place? What an incredible event and opportunity! Words cannot express what a wonderful feeling it was to have so...

Birds of a Feather

To see a few more photographs, click here. As the saying goes “Birds of a feather often flock together” and to my surprise four Sandhill Cranes (two adults and two offspring) leisurely strolled down a county road not too far from our house the other...