by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 30, 2011 | Animals, Buildings, Chickens, Construction, From City to Country, Lessons, Livestock, Materials, Repair
It’s something out of a horror movie. You come home from a fun, barn dance/Halloween party with your young family to find your livestock slaughtered in their pen, blood spattered everywhere, corpses ripped to shreds. A gory end to a family’s pets –...
by Victoria Gazeley | Aug 27, 2011 | Construction, Materials, Repair, Rural Living Skills
There’s something about rustic shakes or more refined shingles that just screams ‘country charm’. From old New England cottages to sprawling West Coast estates and tiny rural cabins and outbuildings in the Rockies, wood shakes and shingles have a...