Today the vigas went up on the roof, we began nailing the ceiling boards onto those, the vault on our entryway was placed, and the greywater planter cell was filled with sand, rocks, gravel, more sand, then topsoil. It was a hot, sunny day, but we are becoming an awesome team who really knows how to work together and have fun!
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Christina working on bottle bricks |
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insulating the cisterns |
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pipes sticking up are for checking the water level in the completed planter |
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rolling the first viga on |
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Beau, LJ, Jacob, and Mike were the ones to guide 45 vigas onto the roof |
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rolling it across the beam |
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they decided to start carrying the vigas by hand to make it go faster |
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only two more left to place! |
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moving the metal vault in place |
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sand, large rocks, then gravel placed into the greenhouse planter cell |
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starting to plaster the vault |
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beginning to lay the "decking" which is the wood planks perpendicular to the vigas for our ceiling |
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Kelly porcupining the vigas for can and cement placement |
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I got to jump in and run the nail gun |
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digging one more planter cell for our orange tree! |
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a peek from inside |
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Jesse and Christina at the bottle brick station |
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Dori at the bottle brick station |
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drilling the vigas in place |
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Hello Jacob! (little windows to let light into the vault) |
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a very tired group at our 4:30 beer |
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Solar shower buddy up! |
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end of Day 4... wow! |
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cold storage pantry |
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open greenhouse hallway at entryway |
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living room/kitchen wall |
Amazing! I am so happy Kelley (my daughter) sent me your blog link! It is wonderful to actually see the progress of a home as it is being built - and for me...it does my heart good to see glimpses of Kelley & Beau! I miss them so much!
ReplyDeleteWow! It must be amazing and so gratifying to see it all come together!
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