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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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2004-2005 Heating Season Statistics
From June of 2004 through February 2005, the 4.2kW solar PV array has produced 3,213 kWh. This is below the predicted value of the PV Watts program, but weather does vary year-to-year. January was way below the expected output and has put us in the hole from a prediction standpoint —that’s the bad n
What a Hoot!
This weekend was Houston (or should I say “Hoooston”), Minnesota’s Festival of Owls. The festival is in honor of Alice the Great Horned Owl. Alice fell out of her nest in the city of Antigo, Wisconsin eight years ago and was cared for by Marge Gibson of the Raptor Education Group. Alice had broken h
Busy, Busy, Busy
Where does time go? I must apologize for my lack of journal writing as of late. February has been one crazy month for me—editing CoCoCo Papers, working on the NWS project, running for the local utility’s board of directors position, answering emails and letters and just life in general. I guess I ca
Current Weather at Day Creek
