If you want to get farmy, you’ll find a way to pet the goats, mini horse, and other animals, and pick your personal herbs and vegetables from the garden. It most likely would have value us greater than $1,000 to have our cabin roofed by a contractor, but — with some luck — we were able to do the job ourselves, for free! After we determined to make use of a cedar-shake roof, we walked the native beaches till we discovered a big cedar log among the driftwood that always washes in during winter storms. Rejoicing at our good luck, we reduce the log into 24-inch bolts, and split every of those into half-inch shakes with a mallet and a cleaving software referred to as a froe.