Yesterday on my way outside I grabbed my leather gloves. I thought I would resume my battle with my thistles in my veggie garden. I pulled about ten plants, on the eleventh, I felt a popping in my lower back. then extreme pain. The rest of the evening I spent in my recliner, trying not…

It is morning as I wake, after gently pushing a cat or two out of the way. I look  over and see the montage of my kids on the wall, now grown up and gone. Then I look out the high window and enjoy my 60 foot tall black poplar. The redwing blackbirds singing me awake in…

I have romanticized Wolves for most of my life as mystical creatures. I have pictures of them on my walls. Feeling pain and anger hearing of wolves hunted for pelts or fun. I have always felt they were kindred spirits and seeing them, an omen of good fortune to come. Until a pair coming through my land…

Feb 24 2013. That is when I started to write posts about my tiny house build. June 14 2014 I am actually putting on my first piece of wood. First a layer of 2×3 ‘s to even out the bent trailer a little. I just finished a coat of paint on the trailer the bottom…

  My welder has dedicated his Saturday to fabbing and welding my extensions gussets so I can walk through my tiny house with hitting my shoulders on both sides . Thank you Rob. I am getting excited again. I have been waiting for a year. Not due to my welder, but weather, money, and all that…

. I am sitting in my summer office ( no heat). I moved over too soon, it was -5 this morning outside.  Its is only 12 degrees C in my office. So decked out in my my muskrat hat (I am sure the muskrat died of natural causes) ear  flaps down, four blankets and my very warm…

Forecast Snow more snow. I expect it I live in northern Alberta. Tomorrow night another four inches of snow. The big melt had started here driveway is muddy the five feet of snow was down to a foot. A few more days and the polar bears would have migrated north. Kidding no polar bears here….

Is determination to get through a project all you need. Or is it blind faith. Some days I feel Richard Dreyfuss trying to get to Devils Tower in the movie Close encounters. I need to build this tiny house in the face of what seems like impossible odds. Money, health issues, my own government ,weather…

What I should have said is that one of the answers I have been trying to work out is the final design of the frame. After studying designs from two builders. The design I came up with is a variation of Celina’s Design. Celina started her build when she was sixteen. Thanks Celina. This morning…

Saturday the temperature will be 0 degrees Celsius. It is supposed to stay that way till April. The last week the temp has been as low as -35 c.   It means I can start building my tiny house. Yehaw. I rushed to finalize the final design. Here are a few preview pics.