Welcome Daycreek.com is a web site devoted to our cordwood building adventure and living a more self-sufficient lifestyle. The DayCreek Journal now has over 200 entries chronologically ordered for your convenience. And if you are looking for information regarding cordwood masonry construction (also known as stackwall), please click on All Things Cordwood. There's also plenty of information on Renewable Energy , Self-Sufficiency / Homesteading and Permaculture.

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If you are in the market for books and plans related to cordwood construction, please be sure to check out Richard and Becky Flatau's book order web page here at Day Creek.

What's New?

Cordwood Construction Workshop - August 16-17, 2008
Richard and Becky Flatau will be hosting a two day cordwood workshop in Eagle River, Wisconsin on August 16-17, 2008. For more information, please click here to get the details.

03.15.08 - Bald Eagles Fishing on the Upper Mississippi River -Part II Bald Eagles along the Mississippi River are on the move northward now. Here are a few more photographs of these majestic birds taken this past winter.

03.02.08 - The International Festival of Owls The International Festival of Owls was held in Houston, Minnesota this past weekend with plenty of exhibits, presenters and of course, owls!

03.01.08 - The Exciting Adventures of Owlman! Faster than a speeding owl pellet! More efficient than a hybrid car! Able to leap cordwood buildings in a single bound! Look up in the sky! It's a rufous sided towhee! A yellow-bellied sapsucker! An Ivory-Billed Woodpecker!...no wait...it's Owlman.

02.25.08 - A Real Winter Records are being broken in the Midwest as snow totals continue to climb. Madison, Wisconsin has received 87 inches of snow and counting!

02.20.08 - Lunar Eclipse Even though it was a very cold night, the stars were shining at Day Creek the night of the total lunar eclipse. Check out some photographs from the event.

01.12.08 - The Swan Lady of Monticello, Minnesota Who is the Swan Lady of Monticello? On a trip recently to Saint Cloud, Minnesota, I made a diversion to Monticello to photograph the Trumpeter Swans found there and to meet the Swan Lady of Monticello.

01.07.08 - Bald Eagles Fishing on the Mississippi River After weeks and weeks of uncooperative weather, sunny skies prevailed and I was able to photograph the Bald Eagles fishing along the Mississippi River. There are 120 bald eagle photographs now up on iwishicouldfly.com.

 

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