HowlingEchoesHomestead

Welcome back, we started this week off on a bad note this week because I forgot to clear the snow off the solar panels and lost a day of sunshine to charge up our batteries, thankful for our generator. Worked on putting up more firewood. Also started the framing work for the insulation and steel panels we are putting on the crawlspace of the house to close it in for the winter. We hung some canvas over the front of the woodshed to help keep the weather out more. Spent some time organizing the big shed before I close that up with some canvas as well. We hadn't taken the time to organize it since we loaded it up when we first moved up here. Trying to make room so we can park some of our equipment indoors this winter for the first time. Thanks for Watching!

Welcome back everyone, we are still working on firewood and will be for a couple more weeks. I took some time to enjoy some wildlife and worked on replacing the radio is the dump truck and the front porch light that have been problematic for some time. As always thanks for watching.

Welcome back everyone, we got the steel on the roof of the woodshed. As it's that time of year we need to make sure we have our firewood for the winter. I don't want to be digging it out of the snow like last year. To help us with that task we dug out an old M105 military trailer that was on our property and will use it for hauling firewood. Thanks for watching and please follow if you haven't already. Beautiful by LiQWYD | https://www.liqwydmusic.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Welcome back, we spent this week pulling trees out that were taken down a while ago and brought up to the house to be cut and split into firewood. We didn't get as much as we wanted to with the off and on rain. But the rain did give us a beautiful double rainbow.

Welcome back, this week, we worked on more firewood and started getting the plow ready for the winter. Short video this week, with other obligations going on and hope to have a better video for your next week. Thanks for watching!

Welcome back, this week, we worked on upgrading our parking area in front of the house so it's not so muddy when it rains. We also widened the driveway up at the top end where it had narrowed. It's not complete but will do for the winter. I don't want to do too much at one time so it can pack down better as we drive on it. Since we had some rain, we hung some sheetrock so we can help keep more heat in our occupied areas and not lose it to the loft or the parts of the addition that are not insulated yet. Oh ya and finished it of with some more firewood. Happiness by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

Welcome back to the channel, in this weeks video we broke out the lawnmower for the first time since our first summer living here. We worked on getting the driveway extension finished around to the shed. However the outhouse had to be moved, it as in the way. Hauled more dirt and got the rough grade completed on the driveway extension, now to use it and pack it down more and we can do more finishing later this season before the snow comes. Thanks for watching!

Changed plans and decided to work on the rough grading of the front yard down to the pond, since we don't need the old roadway tot he shed. We also started milling 2x4's on the sawmill for the basement shelving project. Thanks for watching, and please subscribe to our channel. Happiness by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

We decided to work on our basement stairs from the outside and the shelving on the back half of the basement. Outside of the OSB and the materials for the stairs, the rest was all milled from lumber harvested from our property. Beautiful by LiQWYD | https://www.liqwydmusic.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Dance With Me by LiQWYD | https://www.liqwydmusic.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US E.C.H.O by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We started doing the rough grading the side yard on the Southwest side of our house so we can try and get grass seed put down before the fall rains move in. Festival by Le Gang | https://soundcloud.com/thisislegang Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

This weeks video is focused the the Excavation of our future pond. Turned out to be a lot more time consuming than we anticipated. However in the end it will be well worth it. Thanks for Watching! Playful by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Welcome back, we made some changes to our front deck to give us some more room. We also cleaned up the ground and graded in front of the house because it was sloped slightly towards the house. We also worked on moving some of our stuff from the shed to the basement storage but didn't film any of that. After that we worked on the pond some more, all of the boulders make it slow going. Until next week, thanks for watching! Happiness by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

Welcome back, we have finished the pond excavation and couldn't be happier with the results. Jodi was out of town for most of this video so it was the first time she got to see it in person. We also finished the rough grading of our side yard. It's just so wonderful to see some of these larger projects getting completed. Thank you so much for joining us on this journey and please don't forget to subscribe. Music: Positive Corporate by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

This week we worked on extending the driveway to get it past the new woodshed as part of the rest of the extension going around the house to the outbuilding. This required cleaning up some of the trees we had stacked up from the ground clearing for the house addition and to get trees at least 50ft from the house for fire protection. We also worked on cutting up some logs on the sawmill. Thanks for watching! Playful by Jay Someday | https://soundcloud.com/jaysomeday Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

We are working on the extension of the driveway around back to our shed. We haven't been able to get as much time in as we'd like since I've been putting in extra hours at work due to a fire and trying to get those systems back up and operational. Thanks for watching and we will see you next week.

We continued working on the driveway extension around to our shed. Didn't make it to the "birch trees" like I keep setting the goal at. However the hardest section of the extension is completed so the rest should go a little quicker. Upbeat by 2TECH-AUDIO | https://2tech-audio.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

We got the extension to the driveway past the birch trees. we got it extended around to where the outhouse is. Which means another boulder pile to move and an outhouse to get moved. Happiness by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

We finished the major framing of the woodshed and am working on the finishing work of the bays. Did a little saw mill work to get the remaining wood for the roof supports. We setup a small temporary garden and Jodi got it all planted. Jodi takes you on a quick tour of her native plant and flower gardens.

We continued cutting more logs on the sawmill to produce the 1”x3” boards we need for the woodshed walls. Cut up for firewood, what couldn’t be used for the woodshed. Being that the mornings are still a little chilly, we worked on finishing the exterior insulation on the rest of the original structure to give our walls roughly a R25 insulation value. By screwing 2”x4” boards on flat and installing foam insulation between those boards and then covering it up with plywood. After that we continued working on the woodshed as we will need to have a place to put the firewood that we’ve been cutting that is piling up down by the sawmill. Thank you for joining us on this Journey and please subscribe if you haven’t already and feel free to share this video with anyone who might like this content. Happiness by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

Welcome back everyone, after some repair work on our ASV Track Loader, which I'll share in a separate video, we resumed work on our woodshed and it's coming together really nice.

Our weekend started off with a beautiful display of the northern lights. Our project for this video is the start of the wood shed and got the first bay of the woodshed walls completed. Music: Dance With Me by LiQWYD | https://www.liqwydmusic.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US E.C.H.O by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The warmer weather is here and with that our loader was finally thawed out enough that we got it out of the ditch. Worked on some external insulating and got a start on our wood shed.

We finally got the roof on and covered in ice barrier. Covered the one end wall of the loft and started framing and covering the other end wall. Installed a temporary window in our new hallway and two new windows in our Pantry. We didn't get missed by this snow storm, we got about 18 inches of snow total and had to do some plowing and snow removal around the house. Thank for watching and please don't forget to subscribe! We appreciate your support. Music: Dance With Me by LiQWYD | https://www.liqwydmusic.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US E.C.H.O by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Festival by Le Gang | https://soundcloud.com/thisislegang Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Happiness by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

We didn't get as much work this weekend as normal because we took time out to help out at the fire department serving food for the city's celebration. Outside of that we had more some snow removal until the we lost a tire chain and blew a seal out of the plow lift pump. We did the electrical rough-in for our pantry and spent the rest of the time harvesting firewood that is buried under the snow and still needing to be cut and split.

More snow again, ready for spring. This snowing hanging on make it hard to get motivated. We are anxious to get started on the outdoor projects. We had some beautiful northern lights the other night. We got the mud & tape of the pantry sheetrock up, two coats, just need to smooth it and check for any additional patching. Thankfully we've had warmer weather and the snow is melting again. Time for mud season, again. Thanks for watching.