It is from year 1972 and under the log siding beats a metallic heart of doublewide trailer. Owner of the trailer is a retired metal worker Gale Spicer. The whole process of converting the trailer into a mobile log home took about four weeks. Mr. Spicer screwed log sidings directly to the metal walls of the trailer. Unexpected benefits include better sound and heat insulation so the mobile log home trailer has better living quality. Mr. Spicer says, “I’ve had people come here taking pictures. Others are going to do it to their trailer. I think we’ve stirred up something.” Article was originally written by Sylvia Anderson and it is called - Rustic way to remake doublewide.

You might remember Luoman Log Homes, a Finnish log home company, which introduced a mobile log home called MobileHome. I suppose Mr. Spicer could have something important to contribute for this Finnish company, after all he does have hands on experience.

INTRODUCTION
This article leans heavily towards communication skills but I still post it here, because many of these life values help in realizing dreams, maybe you will get something out of it to make your log home dream come true.

LIGHT STUDY
Cut the dreaming and get with the program. Darren Rowse had a blogging community effort in which everybody could write about blogger habits. It was a long read as there were almost 100 submitted articles (check them all over here) , but finally here is a layman’s statistic view on those habits presented on all published articles. I left out those comments that really have nothing to do with log homes, also I had to use some creative classifying while putting habits into respective categories. Here is a quick picture of the results, followed by actual qualitative numbers.

PICTURE

NUMBERS
45 network
28 frequency
28 writing brand
25 original content
25 patience
21 writing schedule
18 writing goal
18 research
17 follow media
16 blog purpose
15 use tools
15 reinvent your blog
14 enjoy writing
14 be humble and ethic
07 always prepared to write
06 write uninterrupted
04 make money
04 prioritize

SHORT ANALYSIS
Interesting point to notice on such general study is that networking counts most and technology is relatively low on standings. One might just believe that it is not about what we know but whom we know. Also notice the low importance of money.

HOW DOES IT FIT WITH LOG HOMES?
If one makes the jump from blogging into logging, most of the reasoning remains the same. One has to know right people to get support and then it is about persistence and quality work.

PERSONAL FAVORITES
Personally I found some refreshing articles among those that were posted. Here are my TOP3. Please go and check them out, I bet you will be pleasantly surprised.

Daragan Magayon

All Kinds of Writing

Transposable Element

WOMEN ARE THE BEST
Based on my choices, is it so that women blog better? Right now Darren happens to run a poll that fits well into this topic. Looks like men overpower women in head tally, but that has never proved anything, has it?