[Strawbale] Our SB house

[Denise Ohio]

Kathy,

Thank you for your kind words. We are excited, but still have a long way to go.

Today's excitement involved epoxy and All-Thread. And lifting things. No 
shoveling yet, but it's still early. Dumpster-diving is planned for this 
evening---a local stone fabricator has said we can take whatever we want 
from his dumpsters for our flagstone floor. So my girlfriend jumps into the 
dumpster while I stand outside and point.

Who says we ain't romantic?

Posts and beams (except a 32' glu-lam) for the interior beneath our 
cupola/clerestory go up tomorrow. The big beam is getting set on Wednesday. 
Our building inspector has been great---he was up here yesterday about the 
epoxy and All-Thread setting---he got out of the truck, asked if I was 
going to do the work, and when I said yes, said, "Great. We're done." Then 
we talked about other crap.

Had a bad night on the 4th as fireworks are legal here. Nothing says 
freedom like booze and explosives. I dragged the garden hose over to the 
site, then slept on and off until 4am, waiting to see if anyone was going 
to land a bit of artillery on the bales. Not a thing, though not for lack 
of trying.

ohio


>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:43:06 EDT
>From: Raftercat5 at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [Strawbale] Denise's SB house
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>We got our bales, stacked and tarped on our slab for loadbearing walls  going
>up in August.
>
>yeah, Denise!  Way to go!  I bet you're excited.  I would  be!  We have the
>blocks almost done (give us another week or 2), then we  have to prepare the
>ground for the slab.  Bales won't come til next  year.  Seems like it's 
>going so
>slow....but then again, we're both of the  retired generation.  It's too hot
>to work outside today.  Get the  picture?  LOL.  Anyway, it's refreshing to
>hear of your  progress.
>- Kathy
>
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