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Building It: Log Home Advantages
In my last post I started talking about building your home, and introduced the subject of log and timber frame housing. These homes are becoming more and more popular all over the country, and offer...
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A Log Cabin Christmas
During this 2007 holiday season, it seems the children are all nestled asleep in their beds, with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads… oh, wait. You say the “children” are all teenagers now,...
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Teeny, Tiny Houses
A friend left a little 16-foot travel trailer in our back yard a couple of years ago when he had to sell his land and move east to tend his aging parents. The plumbing got wrecked because he forgot to...
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Earthlodge: The Original Sod Home
Mandan lodge, Edward S. Curtis, 1909 I read an interesting article on the “earthlodges” of Native Americans in the Dakotas the other day. I’d learned early in my life when the family moved from New...
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A Timber Business That Doesn’t Cut Down Trees
In my very rural neighborhood with lots of small-acreage homesteads that have been going for generations, there is a lumber mill. Belongs to a neighbor, mostly just a big-timber circular saw and...
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Emergency Planning: Surviving an F5
Holy Oklahoma, Batman! My old stomping grounds of Moore, Oklahoma has been slammed twice in the last month with monstrous, mile-wide F5 tornados. Now, it’s certainly nothing new that tornados happen...
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