Jan 18, 2019 | Building Project
You remember the story. It starts something like “The Sun and the Clouds were having an argument.” Well, we’re still watching the battle – cheering for the Sun – and basking with Jupiter when the good stuff happens. We’ve gone to the back forty...
Dec 2, 2018 | Building Project
Hi. Our updates are less frequent – but there are loads of details that don’t seem worthy. Today is different. Our friend Matthew Kroeker has been coming down from Onanole, three days here, two there, etc. to work on our masonry heater. We’ve been...
Sep 8, 2018 | Building Project
Hello, from Turtle Mountain – and our Solar Powered, Rammed Earth house build. Time to reconnect. Our family lost this wonderful house and the home we lived in for the past 25 years to a fire. 1 June. Yes, it was a big blow. But fortunately we have an amazingly...
Apr 9, 2018 | Building Project
Travelling through central Europe a few years back we were encouraged to visit castles and cathedrals. Built by lords and popes with riches either taxed or stolen, they seemed self-aggrandizing, to me. Well, (swallowing judgement here) I’m changing my mind. We...
Feb 25, 2018 | Building Project
Every day our faithful Jupiter escorts me on the 5 minute commute to work. When it’s warm, she lays on the south side of the house, basking and watching. If it’s cold, she comes inside finds a window – and changes it up by watching and basking....
Dec 13, 2017 | Building Project
A while back I reported on the house being closed in for winter. That was premature. We assumed the doors and windows would arrive as planned. There were some bumps in the road, let’s say, but we’re happy to say the installation was completed a couple days...
