"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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Thank you and enjoy our website!
—Alan Stankevitz
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New Friends
My afternoon plans of getting one or two batches of mortar done have been spoiled by a thunderstorm passing through the area. It's probably a good thing though since I haven't found the time to do a journal entry in a couple of weeks. It rained so hard, so fast that...
Cordobe
Is it a cordwood wall or is it an adobe wall? Well...it's kinda both—It's Cordobe! Building the house has been quite an experiment, so why stop now? I've had great success up to this point with PEM (Paper Enhanced Mortar) and with PEP(Paper Enhanced Plaster) and it...
Fungus Among Us
On my return trip this week I was greeted by a tree blocking my way up to the house. It was a dead elm that probably should have been cut down a while ago, but it looked like a "widow maker" to me, so it just stood there until a strong summer storm brought it down. I...
Current Weather at Day Creek
