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

 

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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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On Track with the Rack

On Track with the Rack

The first of the two large racks was completed this week. It was quite a laborious project, but doing the labor myself has kept the cost quite a bit lower compared to building the rack from a prepackaged kit. It took a good five hours to line up the posts in the hole...

Only 3,792 Watts to Go!

Only 3,792 Watts to Go!

The head wound has healed nicely and the only side effect remaining is the obsessive need for putting up cordwood walls and solar panels. Other than that I feel fine.This week I was determined to make some "head-way" and by Saturday, I had 400 watts worth of solar...

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