Arnold, CA…For today we thought we would take a look back at a book that for many started it all. Many young readers including me dreamed of one day going into the woods and building our own small cabin. The quote below has spoken to almost all of us at one time or another. “I …
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Arnold, CA…In tonight’s video we cleared away the snow from our log pile that has been aging about a year getting ready to be milled. The temps are going to be above freezing the next few days so if we removed the snow tonight by tomorrow night we should be dry enough to start making …
Arnold, CA…On January 10th we did work on project but not much that was worth video. So we thought a bit of trail cam footage on property might do the trick for today. We needed to change the batteries anyway so it was a good time to pull the files. The video is just raw …
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Arnold, CA….Normally I am not a big football watcher as I usually feel too guilty for not putting my time to a more productive use. But I could not resist today with teams fighting to get a playoff spot. I did however get a bit more done cleaning up the downed branches…
Arnold, CA…Today was a bit more treading water instead of real progress. We count ourselves lucky though as in this last winter storm many had real damage from downed trees and more. We just had downed limbs & debris that made a mess. Yes as is our want we are turning even this into fuel …
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Arnold, CA….After the recent winter storms that left us without power for 5 days last week and in some areas 5 feet of snow we needed to run some errands and clean and catch up. So there will be no video today but just a photo. We know is early in our project but we …
Arnold, CA…This afternoon we cleared away the brush from the northern side of our building site. Looks like we will have to move a few wheelbarrow loads of material to get the pad level. But all in all not so bad for building on the side of a hill.
Arnold, CA…Today we made it to the property and started measuring the pad for the first building. It will be on a fairly steep hill so we will need to do a bit of shovel work to get is all laid out. Today’s video is below…
Arnold, CA…This afternoon we made a few more cuts in a downed tree to fill up our wood supply. The Video is below..
Arnold, CA…For today I spent a bit of time at the property turning a brush pile into kindling & fire starter twigs etc. Sometimes we take for granted the inherent value of many things. It takes so many BTUs per day to cook our food, keep us warm power our lives. I live in a …
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