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- Jackson County up in the Mountains
- I use this blog to chronicle certain aspects of my life near the Smokies. I'm building a cabin. I kayak. Sometimes I bike.
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Saturday, August 20, after some test runs , we hosted the first annual Burning Pig Festival at Coldholler. It was epic. Over 115 folk came... -
Other boardcutting posts: Handsaw (small) Ralph Morgan interview Handsaw (big, on the roof!) Sawyer (ripping a log with a chainsaw) B...
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Here I am, cutting a decking board for Abel's and Angus's sleeping loft, with Mark Budden's sharp Stanley ripping saw...it's not a 19th Cen...
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Saturday, lots of the folk who helped me along the way or even followed this blog came up the holler to raise a glass to a dried-in cabin!... -
The third wall has been chinked and daubed, and I can smell the barn. This is very hard work. The last remaining wall has no windows or do... -
It's been a long winter up the holler. Gravel never broke through the snow on the drive during the month of January. It fell on Christmas... -
Last weekend, I hung all of the rafters, working alone. As discussed in Chapter 38, I made some mistakes, but I corrected them. This weeke... -
I haven't had the talk with our cabin yet -- the one about protection. Using locust beneath it and building a good overhang on the roof wil... -
Cooking with gas, low and slow, in a large, indirectly heated smoker, can accomplish much . I've achieved a smoke ring too -- the small sta... -
Next week at the Coldholler log cabin, we'll slow-cook a 120 pound Mule Foot pig from Trillium Farms Natural Pork . More on that " heirloo...
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