Category Archives: The Cabin

Possum Day

Possum Day Back in the 70s an 18 year old girl, pen named Dolly Freed, wrote a book about her adventures growing up with her divorced dad outside Philadelphia, in what would be today called a mini homestead. The book … Continue reading

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Moving in

The time has come to make the big move.  I’ve been splitting about half the time at the house and half at the cabin.  Time to make the cabin home.  Things are set up enough at the cabin, in many … Continue reading

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Spring!

There is still a little snow on the ground and it drops below freezing at night, but it sure feels like spring. 44 outside now. The outhouse survived winter. So did the solar panel. I’ll be connecting the other panel … Continue reading

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Preparations for Spring

It’s not even the end of January, but it’s not to early to plan and prepare for Spring projects.  I’ll leave this as an open post where I will list my ideas as they come to me. The first things … Continue reading

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A New Member of the Pack

But first, today is the fourth anniversary of the previous pack member’s death.  Frisbee never got to see the Pithole Homestead.  She was a good dog.  In her memory. Now, Introducing a new member to the Pithole Pack. She is … Continue reading

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A new vehicle

The PT Cruiser finally broke down. But now I have 4 wheel drive. A 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo

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Window Dressing

Today I did a little dressing up of the inside window frames on the cabin. This is what they looked like unfinished. Although they were framed and didn’t leak they weren’t very pretty. So I made use of the 1 … Continue reading

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Not exactly kiln dried

Yesterday I had a bunch of 1 x 4s stacked to build windows frames today. Then it rained.  All night.  So I came up with this rack to dry them quick since there only seems to be one dry, sunny … Continue reading

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The Two Bears

  Two curious bruins were exploring the homestead this morning. One looked in the the window and said “somebody has been sleeping in my bed”. After reviewing the video I believe what I thought were two yearling cubs was really … Continue reading

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The Cabin’s Evolution – nearly a years journey

The Basic Shed The interior also evolved. The composting outhouse is also developing. Not really a composting outhouse.  This basically an outhouse with a removable holding tank.  The outhouse is designed to moved forward on skids after the back panel … Continue reading

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