The weather news this week for most of the country was the winter storm. I have to admit, it was impressive, the kind of snow I remember from my childhood, with snow banks taller than people and icicles, and drifts.
The wind was out of the west and north for most of the storm, so where
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In past blog posts, I’ve mentioned both Lou Ureneck and Mark Van Roojen. If the Internet is the “Information SuperHighway”, then I guess you could call Mark, Lou, and I ”neighbors” on the same “Internet gravel road”. Mark had some weather slow downs during his trip west in June, and Lou spent time away from the
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While perhaps best known as a food writer, Pollan penned “A Place of My Own” in 1997, subtitled “The Education of an Inexperienced Builder.”
In my own case, there came a moment, a few years shy of my fortieth birthday, on the verge of making several large changes in my life– when the notion of a
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I’ve mentioned Lou Ureneck’s cabin project as one I’m following, and in his comments, someone asked a great question: What is a cabin?
The comments there bring an interesting mix and Lou writes:
It’s a good question, though not so easily answered. A cabin is not a house, though it may be a home. Some cabins are
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The post-Christmas weather included an ice storm, 56 degree days, a inch or two of snow, and wind.
Today was a picture perfect day.
Living small is not everyone’s dream, but it is mine.
The cabin at Two Mile Ranch could be considered a contradiction in that is is both large and small. It is built in the style of a dogtrot home and bisected with a 16 x 44 foot deck. If it were a rectangle and enclosed, the
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There is potential to re-use shipping containers. Not the boxes from your eBay purchase, but the metal cargo containers. July’s Mpls StPaul Magazine includes a great find by Dale Mulfinger.
The showcase cabin in Mulfinger’s Cabin Fever column sits on 40 acres and includes two of the 8 by 20 foot containers in the design.
Slide show
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Friday, Saturday and Sunday were perfect building days. Highs in the 60’s and 70’s and sunny. Friday started overcast and after doing some work in town, exchanging license plates and signing some papers, I paid for the lumber and it arrived shortly after I got to the farm.
Friday was spent setting the joists, 39 joists
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