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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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Happy Birthday Solar PV System!

Happy Birthday Solar PV System!

It’s been one year now since we started producing solar power and I am happy to report that for the year ending May 31, 2005 we were able to finish the year with a surplus. In other words we produced more power than we consumed. Granted, the house is not fully lived-in yet. Once the house is complet

You’ve Got to be Kitten

You’ve Got to be Kitten

Well, I guess the top headline for this journal entry has to be about four newborn kitties. The kittens were born during the weekend of May 14-15. One of them is mostly black, another a mottled-black brown, a gray and a calico. They all seem to be healthy and are being taken care of by mom.

Brown Spring

Brown Spring

As I was driving down the road toward the house yesterday evening, the bluffs were illuminated by the setting sun. I was amazed at how red the bluffs looked. At first, I thought that the sun must be quite red, but after making the turn around the bend I noticed that the sun wasn’t red at all. It was

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