Category: Episodes

In this episode, Ryan and I get a little kid free time at our land which is GREAT because we have a fun new tool that we are hoping will be a great resource to us with lumber prices being so high. We get to try out our chainsaw mill (or Alaskan mill as some… Continue reading Lumber Prices are CRAZY // Building our own House – Ep. 23

We are getting SO CLOSE to having the foundation work for our a-frame cabin complete. Once we have the area around our foundation backfilled, the build of our cabin will be 100% in our hands. But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, we have to make sure we are ready for the backfill… Continue reading The FINAL step // Building Our Own Home — Ep. 22

Follow along as we FINALLY complete a covered entrance for our yurt. If you’ve ever been to the Hood Canal in the Fall, Winter, or Spring you know that the probability of it raining is HIGH. This makes a covered entrance to our yurt even more important. Without a covered entrance the door to our… Continue reading Is this SAFE??? // Upgrading our off grid YURT – Ep. 21

Up until now, we have been using a small step ladder as the entrance to our yurt. This has worked fine as a temporary way to get into our yurt, but now it’s time for an upgrade. It’s time to build a permanent deck and stairs as the entrance to our yurt. If you’ve been… Continue reading Is This a GOOD IDEA? // Building a Deck out of Repurposed Materials – Ep. 20

It’s time for our first building inspection and we are a little nervous!! This is the inspection that has to happen before our cabin. If we don’t pass in the first try it means our pour will be delayed. After our inspection, we put in our foundation drain. A foundation drain is a drainage system… Continue reading Will we PASS our FIRST Building Inspection? // Installing our Foundation Drain — Ep. 19

I’m curious . . . . Did you have a part in building your home? If you did, what is one thing you wish you would have done differently in the building process? We want to know because even with the just preparing for our foundation for our cabin build we have already had to… Continue reading Will WE be READY? // Prepping for the FOUNDATION of our HOUSE — Ep. 18

Keeping a yurt warm in the winter can be tricky. However, we’ve done quite a bit of research to find all the tips and tricks from other yurt dwellers out there. This research has helped us decide what to add to our yurt to keep it as warm as possible in the winter. At this… Continue reading Staying WARM in our YURT // Installing the Yurt Floor Insulation – Ep. 17

We’re back up at our land. The purpose of this trip is so we can be at our property as the foundation to our A-Frame Cabin is being built and hopefully poured. However, we have a little bit of extra time when we arrive up at the land so we get to work on some… Continue reading Owning LAND // How we MAINTAIN 5 Acres of Land – Ep. 16

Things are getting REAL up at our land as we prepare to build our A-Frame Cabin in late Spring. We are getting ready to have the forms for our cabin foundation put in place, and then the cement truck will come to pour the foundation. This means we will be having a LOT of HEAVY… Continue reading PREPPING for our CABIN Foundation // Couple Builds A-FRAME Cabin

In this episode, you get to see us install the stove piping for our pellet stove into our yurt. Our yurt will actually become completely off-grid so we don’t have to code it as a liveable structure. Now, you may know that a pellet stove requires electricity so we will eventually be installing solar panels… Continue reading How we HEAT our OFF GRID Yurt // Ep. 14