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The Pacific Lumber Co is mulling the sell of tens of thousands of acres of timberland. Company says that it is concentrating on producing redwood lumber. Financial analysts seem to take announcement with a grain of salt, predicting that this is just a step towards liquidation of the company. You can read more about the matter over here.

What makes this news interesting is another similar story, U.S. government being the seller. Bush government is planning to use the proceeds to concentrate on main functions like public services, rural schooling to be exact. However, there have been some analysts and politicians who claim that sale has to be done because of poor management of public affairs. More about the topic over here.

What’s the lesson of these two stories? No matter which way you look at it, there is awfully lot of land at sale right now, go and grab some.

This site is about celebration of log homes. Sometimes my wife asks me why is it that I like log homes over stone houses? In general terms I would like to quote Ralph Kylloe, author of “The Rustic Cabin: Design & Architecture”. He thinks that the rustic lifestyle is more popular today because,

“We spend our days in buildings made of Sheetrock and filled with highly manipulated furniture and we drive our metal vehicles on concrete roads. We crave nature, but we also don’t want to give up the luxuries that the modern world offers.” (Quote over here)

I couldn’t agree more with Ralph also I would like to add that even my wife considers stone homes just as natural as log homes there is still this clear difference that most people are able to build log homes given some persistence, but stone homes require too much skill to erect. Log home is my choice, because I feel so close to the material it is made of.