Homesteading in Hawaii

Slow but sure, the roof is getting replaced. We're about halfway done. The entire bedroom section is complete. This roof covers the bedr...

Finally...finally, we are starting the roof project. The current roof is only 15 years old, but due to the erupting volcano, it is significa...

I'm still working in our house, though I'm almost done. Still have the bathroom to finish, but we got a bug in our butts about wanti...

"T" wrote to ask about the weird handle on the little shed that was just painted multi colors. "The door handle looks unusual...

With the daily ashfalls, we had to prioritize getting a way to divert the rainwater from entering our catchment tanks. On the outbuildings, ...

Came home to find a surprise....David's artistic side has come out to play. He's made some decoration for the new back doors steps o...

Came back from the farmers market today to find that David managed to make a little more progress on the back porch stairs before it rained....

David had a chance to work a couple hours before the storm arrived. He got all the lumber cut to size, painted, and some of the framing in p...

After taking this past week off from working around the place, I'm back on the job this Monday morning. But it turns out that my plans h...

The closet is one of my sloooooow projects. It's getting done one small step at a time. So as of today, the clothes rail is finally in p...

I've been trying this past week to get some of my various projects completed. I have a whole long list of partially done things and it w...

Another little baby step accomplished. The cedar ceiling between the rafters is up. In the photo it looks to be a different color from the w...

Yesterday there was a major stride in the building of the walk-in closet. The floor got installed!   I had recently made a trip into town an...

I haven't posted an update lately. I'm still working on the walk in closet, but I keep getting sidetracked. So I'm trying to mak...

We're back to working on the house again. I skipped over finishing the bedroom in order to make the walk-in closet, a place to stash the...

It's about time that I start working on the house again. It's been too long of a break. Lets see, we've gotten done the livingro...

One of our farm dogs, Crusty, is a diehard thief. His favorite target is food, any sort of edible food whatever. And one of his successful t...

The rest of the hallway floor is now installed.  There is still a bit of trim work for David to do. And the threshold plate for him to manuf...

On the section of the hallway that I intended to get done --  it's finished! Floor installed. Trim work done. The only thing that needs ...

I mentioned the flooring we chose for the hallway and that prompted several emails asking for more info. Wow, it was like throwing out a cou...