~ DayCreek Journal~
First Floor Posts Erected
I guess I’ll never be happy. Either it’s raining or the deer flies are out. I don’t know why they call them deer flies I’ve never seen them with antlers, but they are...
Building the Footings – Part III
As I write this, it’s late in the evening at beautiful Day Creek. I may not have indoor plumbing, but I’ve got power and a phone line. The combination of the two gives me access to the...
Building the Footings – Part II
As in previous weeks, my time spent at the building site was short and fleeting. Weekends just are not enough time to get much done. Fortunately, this will be remedied shortly as this will be my...
Building the Footings – Part I
Sorry for the delay in keeping you updated. Since April, things have been very busy. Tri-County power should have a temporary line brought in by the middle of May and I should also have a phone line...
Building a Model of the House
Over the last number of months, there’s been a lot of thinking, dreaming and rethinking going on. As things look now, I’m leaning towards using Cliff Shockey’s method of building...
Good Times, Bad Times – Rubble Trench Part II
What a difference a week can make. Russ called to let me know that he was out at our building site on Tuesday and completed the digging necessary to allow proper drainage of our rubble trench. Then...
Good Times, Bad Times – Rubble Trench Part I
From the start, there would be good times and bad times. This last week was one of those bad times. It all started out very promising but as you will read, things ended the week on a bad note. The...
Cabin Fever
The original plan was to build a room inside of the pole barn to use as temporary living quarters while I build our cordwood home. After tent camping inside of the pole barn I came to the following...
Excavation Begins!
Over the last week, Russ Wulf and Mike Barney have been busy digging into the hillside to level out an area approximately 65′ in diameter. The outside footings for the house will be...
First Quarter Update
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...
The Second Great Wall of Cordwood
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....
The Great Wall of Cordwood
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....
Well, so much for being neatly stacked…
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...
The Road is In
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...
Back From Ontario
Why were we in Ontario you ask? Well, it was a combination of vacation and research. Before telling you about Ontario, let me explain how we ended up there. During last summer, I attended a cordwood...
The Pole Barn is Up!
One of the first projects to get done is the pole barn. Storage is required for building materials for the house and this will provide temporary housing while the house is being built. The barn is...