technical
January 30
The foundation is laid. The concrete is setting up. The building site is neat and tidy.
Time to get this adobe block party going!
The tall triangular structures are “speed leads” that will help “sight” the laying of the adobe blocks properly.
The wood will be used to create “bucks” for the windows and doors.
personal
This is the road we are hiking now that Bullfrog Mountain is closed.
It is flatter, as you can see, but the sky is just as blue! And there are dividends to this flat road which will be revealed later on.
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technical
February 2-4
Lots more stuff being put into place all around the building site now.
The wooden frames are “bucks” for the floor-to-ceiling doors and windows. The smaller window bucks will be inserted once the adobe blocks have reached the appropriate height for them.
It is very exciting to see all of these preparations underway for the Adobe Block Party!
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- Window “bucks” for the large windows in the living room and dining room
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- Door and window bucks not yet raised
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- Pallets of adobe blocks are placed all around the site
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- Niles investigates the dirt for the mortar that will hold the adobe blocks in place
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- Things are getting organized for the block party!
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- Steve and crew make shaped adobe blocks using different molds
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- The first layer of adobe blocks is laid down to check the spacing
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- Adobe blocks will be used for both exterior and interior walls
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- Dirt made by Steve from his backyard (!) will be mixed with cement and lime to form the mortar
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- Cement and lime
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- Mars rover on a tractor. No wait! It’s the Mortar Mixer!
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- Steve brings several pallets of adobe blocks up to the site in his big truck and then places them all around the site using the Spyder.
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- Nice working conditions, yes? But very cold!
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- Bella admiring the sky
