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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
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Landscaping, Cordwood Building and A Cat Shower
It's funny how things snowball sometimes. Our gravel road took quite a beating this spring. Early spring rains, thawing, refreezing and gravity all took their toll. So a decision needed to be made as to what to do; either regravel the road or blacktop part of it....
Snap, Crackle, Pop!
Ahhh, the sound of cereal crackling in a bowl of soy milk. Does life get any better? Well, it could get a lot better if the sound wasn't coming from the walls. No don't worry, the walls aren't falling apart nor is the post and beam frame lifting off the ground. It's...
The Chop-Saw Gets the Axe
After numerous attempts at preventing logs from flying off the table, I have shelved the chopsaw idea. The chopsaw does work when cutting long logs to 8" lengths, but when attempting to cut 16" logs in half, it was difficult to keep the logs steady. It was impossible...