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Started by jwv, January 10, 2006, 06:46:59 PM

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jwv

Hi,

I like reading this forum and hearing all the experiences and tips from different people.  I also LOVE looking at pictures of all the projects going on.   Thank you to all who post and post pictures.  However, I'm wondering if anyone is aware of builder's who blog?  As we move into the construction phase (the plans needed some tweeking for the city but hope to pour the slab around the second week of Feb) am thinking of starting a blog and wondered if anyone was aware of other blogs.

Do you know of any? :question

judy

Mommymem

Daddymem and I are planning on doing a blog to document our building adventure. I've been looking around to different blog sites to decide where I want to put it up. It should be started soon since we've finally got our septic go ahead!

~Mommymem



Jimmy_Cason

#3
Here it is..

http://hollishomestead.blogspot.com/

If someone wanted to give a quick lesson in blogging I am also willing to learn.

benevolance

I am not sure what the difference between a web site and a blog is...

Then again I am not really a big high tech guy...I prefer to pee outside and all ;)

Can someone explain the difference to me please?


glenn-k

#5
A blog is a Web log.  Just a public diary of your daily progress - rants -information  nearly anything you want to write about what you are doing with or without pictures.  Format is pretty simple - much like what we do here.  Some or many have adds on them.  A continuing story generally with the latest stuff at the top -- you can usually scroll down for earlier postings or go to archived information for even earlier.

Probably not affected one way or the other by your need to water the trees outside, Peter. :)

Blogs are more automated and easy to do like this site- web sites, html using Front Page or other then FTP to the host are a lot more trouble.  That is why I never do much on my website.  I'm lazy. :-/

jraabe

#6
The Blogger site (and others) have made the process of building a website and updating it much easier than it was a year or two ago.

Here is a site I did for the 200sf contest. If you click the "My Complete Profile" button you should see some other blogs for a vacation in Colorado and pics of my camper project. http://cpdesigncontest.blogspot.com/2005/09/under-200-sf-design-contest.html

This would be a good way to setup an ongoing project diary by combining photos you could upload from your camera. It is very easy to do decent looking formatting, edit your text, etc. Such tasks involve real work when done in HTML. Of course you can't do nearly as much in blog as you can in HTML, and I don't think blogs are as easily found by the search engines at this point. However, for most people that is not a problem since they can give the links to those who need it.

If you have a blog setup you can copy a link right into these forum posts in the same way folks have linked to their Yahoo photo pages. (And, you can probably link to a photo in the same way... let me try.)



Yep, easy as pie! (right click on the image, select and copy "properties", paste between the img tags - from the little picture frame at the top of the edit toolbar)

Update 1-12 Evening. The image posted the first time but is now blocked. Interesting, maybe blogger only allows a certain bandwidth of image download???

Here's the image of me and Mrs in a hot air balloon (how appropriate!)



Well, what do you know? Now [highlight]both images [/highlight](the blogger and the one uploaded to ImageShack) are displaying. Guess that's enough pics of my mug for awhile.  :P

Daddymem


jwv

#8
Great Steamboat pictures, John!

Thanks to all for the input on the blogs and keep the blog addresses coming.  There must be more out there.

Glenn, didn't know you had a website!  i had looked at the yahoo pics before but on website I see an earthen stove oven (duh)!  I built one at the previous house and we had a lot of fun with it.  It wasn't quite as decorative as yours, I sculpted some flames around the opening and tried to color them but that didn't work.  It was still a great experience.  I love working with mud.

judy


glenn-k

#9
I did it because I was hoping to do a little video of the place -a few other things - now it's getting to where you can do videos etc anywhere - even here.  I'm just too lazy to keep after a website.

The Clay oven is there because there was a rock there that weighed about 10000 lbs rough guess - so I put the oven in that area rather than fight it.  There are lots of easier places to dig. :)

jwv

#10
Here's an interesting blog with some good solar info and links.  Check out that little stove.

http://www.glenhunter.ca/index.html

judy
resident Balehead, I guess...

glenn-k

#11
The suspense is killing me , Judy.  I can't breathe.  Curiousity is killing me but I can't find the link.  :'(

That's cheating -it wasn't there a second ago. :)

Mommymem

I started our blog! Read at your own risk. I tend to babble and ramble when excited.
http://schluterhomestead.blogspot.com/

Enjoy! ;D ;D
"Change your thoughts and you change the world." -Norman Vincent Peale

http://schluterhomestead.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FDBuilders/

Jimmy C.

#13
Looks Like a good start Mommymem.

I know it is a work in progress, I would put the welome at the top of the page.

I have been dying to know. What is the significance behind the name Mommymem And Daddymem
The hardest part is getting past the mental blocks about what you are capable of doing.
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Mommymem

Thanks for the idea Jimmy, I did change it. As for the names you'll have to ask Daddy.
"Change your thoughts and you change the world." -Norman Vincent Peale

http://schluterhomestead.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FDBuilders/

Daddymem

#15
Since you asked....On a MUD I was using a nym of Memnoch (from Ann Rice's Memnoch the Devil) and people would shorten it to Mem.  When my first child was born I changed my title to Daddymem and it just kinda stuck.  I'll let you connect the dots on Mommymem  ;)
Où sont passées toutes nos nuits de rêve?
Aide-moi à les retrouver.
" I'm an engineer Cap'n, not a miracle worker"

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Jimmy C.

Thanks, Now I can sleep at night!
The hardest part is getting past the mental blocks about what you are capable of doing.
Cason 2-Story Project MY PROGRESS PHOTOS

jwv

QuoteI started our blog! Read at your own risk. I tend to babble and ramble when excited.
http://schluterhomestead.blogspot.com/

Enjoy! ;D ;D


Cool!! But now we want pictures (we are a demanding public, aren't we?)

I'm going to take some pictures this weekend of our lot and take the blog plunge.

judy
http://strawbaleredux.blogspot.com/

"One must have chaos in one's self to give birth to the dancing star" ~Neitszche

Mommymem

I was debating taking pictures of the site. But there isn't really anything to see but a bunch of trees and old sheds. Maybe I will anyways.
"Change your thoughts and you change the world." -Norman Vincent Peale

http://schluterhomestead.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FDBuilders/

jwv

Our lot is nothing but dirt and not a lot of that, the dimensions are 64 x 80!  :o

judy
http://strawbaleredux.blogspot.com/

"One must have chaos in one's self to give birth to the dancing star" ~Neitszche


Mommymem

"Change your thoughts and you change the world." -Norman Vincent Peale

http://schluterhomestead.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FDBuilders/

glenn kangiser

#21
Looks like a really nice site, Mommymem.  Glad to see you are making good progress.  I also tried to leave all the trees I could, only cutting one when I couldn't go around it.  I can get wood from other places.
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

Daddymem

Mommymem means leave as many hardwood trees as possible.  With only 25,000 sf septic and well with their separation and a house, a bunch will have to come down.  We want to clear the rear of the site so the sun won't be blocked. Fortunately, the majority of the trees on our site are pine which grows around here like weeds.  My goal is almost all the pines will come down and only the deciduous that are too close to our house will go.  A careful stakeout of the site structures and some flagging of what trees to take down should do.  I am still contemplating doing the clearing myself but there are some monster pines there so if the price is low from the site contractor we may go that way.
Où sont passées toutes nos nuits de rêve?
Aide-moi à les retrouver.
" I'm an engineer Cap'n, not a miracle worker"

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glenn kangiser

#23
Are you going to try to use any of the pine for boards for your house?  It's always nice to use your own wood in your own house. :)
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

Daddymem

Probably not, I don't own a sawmill and there isn't enough wood to invest in one.  The FirstDays come with pine exterior already.  Perhaps I'll put some of it to use as details.  
Où sont passées toutes nos nuits de rêve?
Aide-moi à les retrouver.
" I'm an engineer Cap'n, not a miracle worker"

http://littlehouseonthesandpit.wordpress.com/