"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Welcome
Welcome back to DayCreek.com. Daycreek.com was originally established in 1997 to chronicle our cordwood house-building adventure here in southeast Minnesota.
For those wondering, we love our cordwood house and can’t say enough good things about the house and living out in the sticks. It’s been a blast and hope to bring many more journal entries and videos to you as we move forward in our continuing adventure!
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—Alan Stankevitz
News You Seek from DayCreek
January Thaw
We seem to be having one of those old fashioned winters. The kind where it snows and it’s cold? Remember those? Today just happened to be one of those clear, weather-free days and it was good to get out and do a little snow shoe hiking. Temperatures were near 40° (F) and without too much wind. This
Where’s the sun when you need it?
Geesh! It sure has been cloudy here in southeast Minnesota. Something you normally wouldn’t expect in January. Solar hours for the first half of the month is next to nil. At this rate, January will be cloudier than December’s weather. But, it does appear that we might get a few good solar days this
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 liberating. This...
Current Weather at Day Creek
