God bless this mess.

The Sangre De Cristo Mountains have been capped with snow! It seems early to me, but I don't think it is. It's getting chilly, which is putting us into warp speed for building and construction.

As we wait for our wood order to come in from the local saw mill, we are putting together the front wall of our kitchen. Only half of this will be glass. The other half is going to be the sink, and some of our bathroom wall. These pictures may be a little confusing. Bear with me, I'll try to explain.

This is from early in the week. We started framing the door and windows on the left side of the room.

From Kitchen, Greenhouse & Roof (Late Summer/Fall 2011)

Our roof showed up on Wednesday. But, like I said, the lumber from the sawmill hasn't. We have our horse, but no carriage. So, on with wall building! We need to build this wall to enclose this room anyway. But man! Not having a plastic roof right about now sure sounds like a grand idea to me. So, here is more wall. The can wall will be plastered over, and hold the beginning of our planter. The other side of it will be our kitchen sink. Notice the white PVC pipe in the middle of it. That will drain our gray water into the planter. We're going make the top of this wall out of bricks or stones, we're still deciding. That will be merely for aesthetics. The rest of it will be covered in dirt, because, like I said it's a planter. I want to put citrus trees in front of the kitchen. Lemon and Limes! That wont be for at least a year, though. Above this wall is the beautiful triangle window frames that Dain built yesterday while I was tending to the wild herds of teenagers at work.

From Kitchen, Greenhouse & Roof (Late Summer/Fall 2011)

Before work we hung the kitchen door! (before work, work) The blue is not our choice, that will be painted over. It's a recycled door, as always. We even have got some glass in! This is getting exciting/close to enclosed.

From Kitchen, Greenhouse & Roof (Late Summer/Fall 2011)

God bless this mess. This is a view from the inside. That can wall needs to be extended up. Then our kitchen sink and some counter will be put in front of it. There will also be counters on the right and left of the room. I can't wait. I'm a little nervous though, because we don't know how to make counter tops. We will find out, as we always do.

From Kitchen, Greenhouse & Roof (Late Summer/Fall 2011)

I pray that the next post is of our roof.