This is the sixth chapter in my book The Bailey Line Road Chronicles, the 30-year story about moving from the city to live a modern homestead life deep in the country on Manitoulin Island, Canada. Missed Chapter Five? Click here…
This is the fifth chapter in my book The Bailey Line Road Chronicles, the 30-year story about moving from the city to live a modern homestead life deep in the country on Manitoulin Island, Canada. Missed Chapter Four? Click here…
When you move to a country property that has no buildings, the first thing you should construct is an outhouse. But that’s not as simple as it sounds . . .
When I show people the 10 x 20-foot cabin where my wife, Mary, and I lived each spring, summer and fall from 1986 to 1990, along with our golden retriever, King, they usually shake their heads and wonder how we…
Learn what it’s like to live between two feuding families in a backwoods corner of a rural island, and see what it teaches about life, harmony and getting along.
I woke up with the rising sun on the morning of Thursday May 15, 1986 in a tent pitched on my homestead property. It was my first morning on the land, I was there by myself, and it was one of the most sharply depressing moments of my life. It was all I could do to stop myself from running away from the crazy venture I’d gotten myself into.
The quickest way to change the look of your home is by changing the colours on your walls. Use these steps to ensure that your walls look like they were repaired and painted by professionals.
Want to earn a living outside the city? Watch and see how Bill and Joann Woods do it. Smart decisions, hard work and a little innovative thinking has made all the difference for them . . .
Back in the 1980s I did some exterior woodworking for a client. They were very pleased, at least at first. Eight months later I got the phone call. The finish was peeling and ugly. “How could you let this happen?”,…
CLICK BELOW FOR A VIDEO TOUR of my course called Razor Sharp. It teaches the fastest and easiest way to make your chisels, plane irons and knives sharper than new razor blades – literally. I’ve been using this technique for 30 years and…
Steve Maxwell researched and installed fabric-covered shelters and shares the knowledge to help homeowners solve their outdoor storage problems.
UPDATED 13Jun2020 + video: Some of you may remember me telling you about our daughter, Ellie. We adopted her from South Africa in 2008. Click here to read if you missed it. She was 7 months old when we met her on…