IT'S BEEN SOME HARD WORK And there's a little bit left to do before we start building the wood house.(I'm so excited to be at this point!) All the logs are on the ground and cut to length(11 feet). These

STONES FOR STEPS I am currently working in Alton Illinois and am in the process of rebuilding a wall that was leaning badly. As the wall was being removed we quickly realized quite a bit of the stone was

THE HOMEMADE SAWMILL If you've been following our progress, you may have seen my recent post concerning building a sawmill using my chainsaw as the milling device. That was a few days ago, and I have rounded

SPRING IS ALMOST HERE... And this is exciting to me as I am waiting for drier, warmer weather to break ground on our homestead. So in the meantime, I am preparing for it. In order to build our Stone House