Build a Cabin and Put an End to the Cabin Fever Epidemic

Every year about this time we are faced with an epidemic of Cabin Fever. In the cold winter months people seem to lose focus and get restless. New research has uncovered a potential cure for the midwinter blahs that has no known side effects, and makes you smarter, happier, and more effective. Better still, the therapy is readily available and doesn’t cost a dime.

For years now people have been attempting to quell the onset of winter boredom and restlessness by heading out to see a movie or going shopping. According to a recently published study led by Marc Berman from the University of Michigan, heading to the mall or cinema may be exactly the wrong thing to do.

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There are exactly 66 days left until the end of winter .

You have lot of snow and a lot of time left to build a snow fort . If you are at the cabin with nothing to do, looking out the window at all that unadulterated whiteness, its time to grab a shovel and get busy.

A quinzhee is a shelter made by hollowing out a pile of settled snow. This is in contrast to an igloo, which is made from blocks of snow.

If snow forts were houses, Igloos would be the large ornate mansions and Quinzhees would be efficient simple bungalows.

We’re going to show you how to build a snow fort equivalent of the simple, modern snow bungalow.
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Approached with proper planning, budgeting and design selection, building a new cabin can be a rewarding undertaking. Your cabin will form the base for all sorts of great experiences and memories. The construction of the cabin itself is no exception. Building a prefab cabin kit streamlines or eliminates several steps associated with traditional building techniques. The result is a quicker build time and reduced potential for error. You might be one of those confident and skilled individuals who takes on the construction yourself or you might work with a local contractor. Whatever the case the process from purchasing the right property to budgeting, planning and building should leave you with that sense of accomplishment you get whenever you do meaningful work.

Building a prefab cabin from start to finish is a 12 step process. Obviously there are many details within the 12 major steps and we will get into some of these over time but for now lets have a look at the process from start to finish. Read the rest of this entry »

There was a mountain resort my family vacationed at years ago that didn’t have phones. A smart resort developer realized they could save the expense of running phone lines to condos, and sell it as a benefit. Even twenty five years ago this seemed odd and even a little dangerous to my ten year old self. Now it seems radically right.

Cell phones and email have led to a disturbing epidemic of workplace co-dependency. A survey undertaken earlier this year by Ipsos Reid on behalf of Expedia.ca found that 48% of Canadian workers feel that electronic devices such as cell phones and blackberries make it harder to get away from work. This is a 7% increase over last year. If you are taking some time off this holiday season you may experience this problem yourself. It is not unusual to find in the first days of your holiday that your colleagues back at the office are relieving their separation anxiety by calling your cell phone with supposedly mission critical issues like misplaced files, or lunch ordering procedures.

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