Hello, Little Blue Visitor! I've been amazed at the number of different birds to have passed by my cabin this spring! In the 15+ years we've lived here I've only seen an Indigo Bunting two other times. What a treat!... 3 days ago Bird Wildlife A Curious Visitor One of the perks of having my office in the middle of the forest is that I get occasional visitors. This red fox had stopped by a few days ago but I only had my phone for pictures. She poked her head around the cabin this morning and I had my dslr at... Apr 10 Cabin Wildlife Photography Raising the Cabin Frame While I enjoyed cutting the joinery on the raw wood, the actual raising of the frame proved to be my favorite part of the cabin build! It moved very quickly and the progress was highly visual. ... Apr 8 Cabin Timber Frame Woodworking Common PHP/Carbon Date Formats For some reason I can never seem to remember the specific syntax for formatting dates either in PHP or Carbon! So instead of continually referencing the php docs I thought I'd start compiling a list of formats I frequently use:... Apr 7 Code Carbon PHP Date Format A Ladder for the Loft This video shows the building of a timber frame ladder which replaces the green fiberglass step ladder. Now it's easy to get into the loft!... Apr 1 Cabin Timber Frame Ladder Woodworking The Building Site With the timber framing course wrapped up and the beams transported back home it was time to prepare the site. What a change it was from building in the breezy workshop to sweating in the buggy Wisconsin forest!... Mar 29 Cabin Timber Frame Home Office A New Desk Top When we first moved the office to the cabin we chose to put the desk facing the window with the worst view. The logic was that I'd want to save the best views for windows that wouldn't be blocked by a desk and computer screen.This worked fine until I... Mar 23 Cabin Woodworking Desk Home Office Remote Workspace Big Joinery & Precise Measurements If the first day was all about setup, the next few days were all about making shavings fly! The timbers had been cut to rough length the day before, so we wasted no time laying out our joinery. ... Mar 22 Cabin Grand Marais Office Timber Frame Mocking Fluent Laravel Facade Chains Laravel offers a few different ways to test facades but the documentation doesn't cover testing individual calls within a fluent chain. As is normally the case with Laravel, testing in this fashion is totally doable... I wrote about the process over... Mar 21 Code Laravel Testing PHP What a Surprise! On June 17th, 2018, my wife and kids surprised me with one of the most extravagant gifts I've ever received. We were camping in Duluth, MN, where I was running a race on the Saturday of father's day weekend. After the race was done we stuck around... Mar 21 Cabin Grand Marais Timber Frame Camping Page 1 of 2 (11 total entries) « 12 »
