We start a new season with a lot of ideas and plans. Early on, we get busy clearing land, excavating and trail building. A couple of mishaps early in the season are the harbinger of problems we encounter down the…
Ahoy there! Can you guess where we are with our post and beam log cabin at a remote lake in North Vancouver Island? A lot happened over the last several months, with several projects going on at the same time.…
We take a detour from our POST and BEAM cabin build to a side project on the property. It is all about transformation, as we turn logs into lumber, waste into firewood, pallets into wood crates, bush into build lots,…
We return to our off grid land in North Vancouver Island to finish setting up the saw mill, and start milling wood for various side projects. But when everything is finally set up and ready to go, we come back…
Snow, ice, hight water, fallen trees, swarms of insects… is there anything else that we have not been prepared for before winter comes to our remote off grid cabin in North Vancouver Island? All is well that ends well. For…
The story of how we built an off grid post and beam cabin at a remote lake in North Vancouver Island. Going back to the beginning, when our land was a dense rainforest, to the point when we could lock…