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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Wanted: Difficult Piece of Land
If you can’t find a perfect piece of land, buy an imperfect piece and make it perfect.
Chapter 2: Designing Small
You can’t buy happiness by the square foot.
Chapter 3: The Rules
When you build, build with hands, head, and heart.
Chapter 4: Paperwork & Earthworks
Mensch tracht, Gott lacht. (Man plans, God laughs.)
Chapter 5: A Solid Foundation
When you dig a hole, be smarter than the shovel.
Chapter 6: Kat — Wife, Lifesaver, Carpenter
When you marry, you marry the whole person — not just the parts above the waterline. You get both the silk sails and the barnacles.
Chapter 7: Cabin Bones
Destiny can throw down a pretty sparse trail of popcorn for you to follow.
Chapter 8: The Drive
If all the difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Chapter 9: Buying Cabin Parts
Keep an open mind — you never know what might crawl in.
Chapter 10: Skin of the Cabin & Middle-Age Blahs
Beauty is only plywood deep.
Chapter 11: A Superior Lake (Some Superior Towns)
When you get caught with your pants down, run like hell.
Chapter 12: Wood, Wire, Pipe & Drywall
The quandary with life is you’re halfway through before you realize it’s a do-it-yourself project.
Chapter 13: Family Matters
Life is a fluid, not a solid. It changes. Be ready for it.
Chapter 14: Finishing Touches
When it’s ninety percent finished, it’s finished.
Chapter 15: Troubles in Paradise
Mistakes are the dues you pay for living a full life.
Chapter 16: Settling In, Grooving Out
There’s more to life than increasing its speed.
Afterword
For Further Reading
Other Books by Spike Carlsen
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