Jay builds a house

Today we put in conduit for electrical service to the land. Jeff at Centerline Construction trenched across the road, from the transformer...

We've been digging holes that we marked out before . Here's the template for marking the hole, and an example of the marking: Th...

We spent 3 nights in Coach in the back yard . It was awesome. I loved being close together as a family. You have you have to keep up with ...

We've moved in to the RV, at least for tonight. Just in the back yard, but still. Cooked dinner. Brushing teeth next.

That title is a bit inflammatory. It should be "The falacy of solar power on grid-tied homes." Instead of putting solar panels on ...

Yesterday I started working with a carpenter on the new yurt platform. We spent the day setting up batter boards and string lines to lay out...

After taking the yurt down , we still had some daylight, so we started working on the platform, but it took all of the next day to finish ta...