"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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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Revisiting Our Home’s Heat Load

Revisiting Our Home’s Heat Load

On February 27, 2000 I discussed our solar heating design and in that article I briefly touched on the subject of determining our home's heat load. At the time, there wasn't a whole lot of information on the internet about the subject and I used a heat design guide to...

Testing…1-2-3…Testing.

Testing…1-2-3…Testing.

  Are we live? Testing 1-2-3. Testing. It's hard to believe but yes, we are back up and running again on a new hosting platform. I have a TON of stuff to do to get DayCreek up to full speed, but at least things have finally been ported over to a non-Windows...

The Bear Truth

The Bear Truth

A few years ago a story was circulating around these parts about a bear sighting just a few miles from here. Someone said they saw a mother bear with two cubs. Now these stories travel through the area

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