Jay builds a house

After putting up the yurt, we needed a way to get in the front door. For a while we used a milk crate: This was good enough, allowing us ...

The old compost pile got full in a big hurry. It took about a month! I did have 2 big trash cans full of food scraps ready to go in on day 1...

The plan was to put up walls on day 2. There was light rain in the morning, and I didn't want to trap any moisture in the wall layers. S...

Here are some pics from a day of yurt raising: Getting the top canvas cover on was the hardest part, as expected. It's big, heavy,...

While we had the trenches open for electricity, we also put in water lines. Now, next to each subpanel there is a "frost-free yard hydr...

Previously I wired up a subpanel to supply power to the septic system . As long as we had the heavy equipment on site, I wanted to bring uti...

A few days ago they did the "squirt test" on the septic system: We have clay-rich soils, which water has a hard time seeping t...