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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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Increase Your Fuel Mileage

Increase Your Fuel Mileage

What constitutes price gouging? How do you define it? If the price varies by 50 cents over the course of a 250 mile trip, is that considered price gouging? If the price varies by 30 cents over a 2 mile area, is that considered price gouging?

227 CoCoCo Nuts

227 CoCoCo Nuts

How often do you get to meet Richard Flatau, Jack Henstridge, Rob Roy, Cliff Shockey and Dr. Kris Dick all in one place? What an incredible event and opportunity! Words cannot express what a wonderful feeling it was to have so many people assembled under one roof to talk about cordwood/stackwall con

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

As the saying goes “Birds of a feather often flock together” and to my surprise four Sandhill Cranes (two adults and two offspring) leisurely strolled down a county road not too far from our house the other morning. A year ago if this would have happened, I would have been cursing that I didn’t have

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