Out at our place I find that we have to jury-rig things a lot. That is, figure out a way to make stuff work. (Or is it jerry-rig? Or rerry-jig? Depends who you ask, I guess.) Making do makes for a lot of ugly stuff, but maybe that’s the reason homesteaders build their hodge-podge empires …

Combination shed and coop. Therefore, “shoop.” It’s actually the first frame building I have ever built from the ground up (if you don’t count the wood shed, which as I’ve mentioned I’ll have to rebuild this spring. Too small). It’s 8 feet square with a pitched metal roof, a back window and a front door. …

One modification to the parameters I set up for this blog: I can write 15 minutes only on those workdays when I’m in the office. So you’ll probably not see any posts on weekends.
One aspect of homesteading is having to do lots of things for yourself that you used to pay others to do for …

3.11.2009
In a hurry as always. I’ll have time to set up this blog tomorrow. I went long at lunch because I was up at the meat place getting our pig-in-boxes for the freezer, which I realized during the drive would not carry us through till next year because it’ll take our pigs longer than that …