Took a long weekend over the 4th to go camping. Not far away, just “over the hill” to a little campground called East Fork, near Willow Creek. Got away late on Wednesday and went into Willow Creek for dinner, then back to camp.
It has been a couple of years since I had any time off. [...]

When [building] code enforcement goes a-roaming, with guns and backup, what’s it really after?

That was howThe North Coast Journal’s Heidi Walters opened her article Fear In The Hills back in April. The article covered an incident back in February when:

. . . a convoy of Sheriff’s deputies and a county code enforcement officer wandered up and down the [...]

I must apologize to loyal readers for not posting here for over a month.
I have been working on The Cove House since the end of February (among other small jobs) and have been hoping to get a post in here about it. But on the personal side, my 91 year old Grandmother has been terminally [...]

Okay, so you want to build green, but you’re on a tight budget. You can’t afford to have a custom house designed for you, but those McMansions in the house plans magazine are also way out of your budget. Well, somebody finally noticed that there’s a market for smaller homes: Check out The House Plans [...]