The pine box has now transformed into a tiny pine seedling. I replanted it into a bigger pot. Now I’m thinking that if I manage to keep it alive, I’m going to plant it on my yard. Coming out of the box, it looked like this.

Just ten hours later from watering the cube for the first time, here is the result. Dry wood and water do not make a good couple.

Remember the tree cube from my faltering 1 Big Dream project? As project was cut, there was need to downsize the key personnel in the project, namely the tree cube. This is why the cube is now assigned to other duties like to grow into a tree. Here’s the cube after first watering.

I have gotten two contacts from Asia, concerning a trade of pine block. Unfortunately, customs have been very much against sending soil and seeds without airtight packaging and sterilizing treatment. Looks like this item is bit more complicated than I originally thought. Therefore I would like to make an announcement. I will turn this trading project into sponsoring project. I’ll let Finnish log home manufacturers pimp my log home for me.

This little log cabin is the reason that kept me away from updating this site. I have come a long way from those match log cabins.

At the moment the cabin is weather locked, but I can’t show the pictures yet. They are on my new video camera and as my technology skills are rather lo-fi I haven’t been able to get the pictures out of camera quite yet.

The whole building process was full of surprising difficulties. One always expects them while building but there is always something that just doesn’t meet the expectations.

Well, this little log cabin is just a first step in a bigger plan. There are already plans for a large log home on this property. This current log home will function as a sauna. Location is just great, just 30 or so feet from the lake. Can’t wait to test bathe it.

My first log cabin was made of match sticks. I suddenly thought about it and decided to make a replica Here it is, just look at it shine. Post me a picture of your match stick cabin and I’ll post it here.

This time I expect that we have much wider spread of goals than what we had with blogging habits. Therefore I am not going to make statistical analysis of submitted posts. However, I am going to write a comment on every single submission and give my feedback to you all (here and here). Oh, by the way, did you notice how Darren goes from numbers to letters?

INTRODUCTION
Darren is having another blogging community event. This time it is about Blogging Goals. I already wrote about my motivation for working with log homes, but maybe it is time to tell you why this site is here and what are site’s goals.

NO GOALS FOR BLOGGING
I have no goal for my blogging. Instead I chose blogging as a medium to realize my dream of being an independent log home exporter agent. Finnish log home and log cabin companies weren’t (and still aren’t) too active in electronic field. I thought (and still do) that this lack of clear web presence could give me a natural entry into the field. Blogs just happened to be the most accessible publishing technology for such a non-tech guy as I am.

BABY STEPS
Now, my ultimate goal is to be an export agent. How to get there? These steps that take me to the goal actually become much more important than the ultimate goal itself. Sure, I could go around and ask time and time again, who would like me to sell their log homes? At the same time I could keep asking who would like to buy one. Doesn’t it just sound way too troublesome?

WRITE AND WAIT
I decided that I am not trying to find anybody interested in log homes. I am just going to start writing about them and people could come and ask about them. By answering their questions I wouldn’t have to make so many questions myself.

You might have noticed that my first book review has Amazon associate link included. That’s right, I am going to be a millionaire with the little help from everybody. Seriously, I’ll use any money that might come from this arrangement into buying more books for reviewing. However I’m going to introduce other ways to make money on this site. At some point of time I will probably have log home kits as a drop shipment delivery. Anyway, those days are still in distant future.

I start to realize what a tedious task it will be to upgrade. I won’t do it today instead I will wait until next weekend. I should have plenty of time then to make all the needed arrangements.