Have you ever wanted to leave the big city, and build a home in the north woods? Author Renee Peek and her husband Allen have taken that leap, finding themselves up to their necks in adventure. Notes from a Northwoods Novice is a diary of their challenges. Sharing their place with bears, daily chores can be thrilling! Adding ducks and chickens gives the adventure a more humorous note. They must be alert and ready for anything nature has in store - tornadoes, two-foot snow falls, five inch rains, even sixty below wind chills.



The Peeks are not immune to the...