Tiny House Platform
Here is the platform build for the tiny house. My job during the build is to watch the kids, so forgive my lack of details. They started out by laying the beams on the cement blocks. Lots of measuring to be sure everything was square. The beams …
Shower Improvements
May not seem like much, but we have improved our shower. We now have the bag hanging on a pulley system so that we don’t have to climb the ladder every time we want to shower! This is a big deal. We put an old dog tie down in the …
Shower Improvements
May not seem like much, but we have improved our shower. We now have the bag hanging on a pulley system so that we don’t have to climb the ladder every time we want to shower! This is a big deal. We put an old dog tie down in the …
Post and Beam Foundation
We decided to go with a tiny house and use a post and beam foundation. Again, our whole lot is ledge so we really can’t dig a foundation of any kind. We really don’t need to. The ledge provides a solid base to build the house on. Frost heaves are …
Bee Deterrent and Flattening the Building Site
This is part of our building site. I doubt you can clearly see, but there are bees living there. They cannot be there, but the bees have enough problems as it is. I don’t want to kill the bees and I don’t want to use harsh chemicals. We don’t want …
Item of the Day: Coffee Percolator
A long time ago we would go to go get coffee every morning at the chain coffee place in town. Then we decided that we needed to save some money and started making our own at home in the electric coffee pot. Now we don’t even have electricity. What to …
Hugelkultur Squash Beds
Even though it is too late to really get a garden going, I figured I would at least plant some squash beds. I’m putting them among the trees in my orchard, so it is relatively shady right now, but hopefully one we clear a little more, the sun will kick …