tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82354911210558249952023-11-16T00:45:54.153-07:00Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.[digging myself into a hole]Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-35861038204357968872016-11-05T07:40:00.003-06:002016-11-05T07:40:58.653-06:00Chicago Climate Fest Video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is the video I put together for Chicago Climate Fest 2016! Thanks for the push from Christine Skolnik, allowing me to get the video together!<br />
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The video is about 20 minutes long, documenting the house from the beginning, and touches a little on the systems in the house. Here you go! <br />
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Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-62756957295491093162016-04-26T14:24:00.000-06:002016-04-26T14:24:27.063-06:00FINALLY an update.. a little one<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ok, this is the third time I've wrote this blog update.. lets see if this will work (It gets shorter every time too.....)<br />
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Our fig tree that our friend Will gave us is growing figs! It's only it's second season!<br />
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And here's some other greenhouse plants... We've been busy <b>Not Gardening. </b><br />
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We turned our living room into studio space. It'll stay this way until we build Dain's bedroom. Then his room will be the studio until we finish the house, and then BUILD THE STUDIO. All in under ten years I hope. Some people have kids, we have house.<br />
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We only have about 30 tires left til the ENTIRE house is done.. with it's tires!! This is a milestone. So excited.<br />
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And, I made a shirt, I wove it, sewed it, dyed it, and now I'm wearing it... probably everyday for three years. I made three others as well. MORE TO COME!<br />
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Plastering the final coat of the kitchen's Adobe floor!<br />
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Almost dry! Another week and then we will seal it. After it's sealed it is the color of the wet floor, that nice dark brown.<br />
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The beginnings of our new outhouse mad out of adobe and bottles. It will have a cement plastered roof and be semi-permanent but probably not always used... Mostly it's just a fun project we started. It will whistle in the wind!<br />
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We've been working like dogs trying to tie up some loose ends. Loose ends that should have been completed long ago, but got put on the back burner, and then on the back burners back burner, and then on the back burners back burners back burner. </div>
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Our greenhouse is 90% done! Or at least I'm going to pretend it is. We still need to do the final coat of plaster on the planter, line it with rubber, and fill it with lots of rocks and soil, not to mention plant things... dye half the concrete floor, plaster a wall... but besides that, it's closed in and getting super close! </div>
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We've been using this space as a sort of weaving and fibers studio. I've been doing a lot of dying projects. I wove some Ikat scarves, which I hope to start selling. Dain has been learning to spin wool with Yak wool he got in California, and some local sheep's wool. He has been weaving, too. He rented a larger loom at the Fiber Arts Center and wove a rug. We hope one of these days we have more than one loom. Right now we take turns using it. </div>
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The monumental work we've been doing is the next room. We've pounded all of the tires, which was quite a task because the room is going to be two stories. We're about three or four weeks from putting this roof up. We hope to put up the entire structure of the house by December, or February (more realistically). This next room is the second to last. It will be the living room, and have a lofted second floor for guest quarters. The bathroom is in the front of this room. It's only structurally half there, which is why we don't have a real bathroom yet. It'll happen around 2016. What's another year of waiting?</div>
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We've also been finishing the floor of the kitchen. Unfortunately we started in December and it got too cold for the adobe to dry, so we've been stopped up for about 3 months. Just last week we put the tiles in and have just one more coat of adobe to do. We use the Earthship recommendations with the adobe, doing 4 coats and letting it dry slowly, this allowing it to dry without cracking (too bad). It's so close. We have to use ramps in the kitchen so we can avoid walking on the floor while it dries. This is annoying, but at least we're not locked out of the kitchen. The new rule of our house is: FINISH IT BEFORE YOU MOVE INTO IT. This will be a touch rule to keep, but I hope we can do it. </div>
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We are building a dome over the mud room of our house. It will be a separate room above the mud room, accessible from outside. We are going to build a staircase up to it, in front of the house, eventually. It's about 12 feet in diameter, with a very low ceiling, about six and a half feet high.<br />
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Here's the house before the Mudroom (about a month ago). <br />
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Luckily we had some friends in town, Reem, Dan, Genevieve, and Aminah to help! Getting these beams up was sort of insane!<br />
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And so... we first started with a rebar frame. This took forever, but not nearly as long as putting the tar paper and chicken wire around the frame! <br />
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And this is the current state it's in, we have started the plastering. We're using cement plaster, as well as experimenting with Expanded Perlite. I'll let you know how that goes when we're through with it. <br />
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A new herd of donkies I aquired...<br />
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And here's our new greenhouse mosaic that is 80% done. Our friend Aminah started it, we are in the process of finishing it. We're going to mount a 3D snake head at the top, the crystal bottom is the snakes rattle.<br />
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Dain and I took a weaving class at the Espanola Fiber Arts Center this month! It was amazing! I should post what we made, maybe next post, I don't have any pictures! Here's Dain fixing up his pieces with our extremely well behaved cat. </div>
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There are a few reasons it took me so
long to get to updating. The usual reason, which is that the work has
been very slow around here. The short days and long nights make house
work very difficult, but winter has finally dissolved. A windier,
but much warmer spring is about to commence. Now we're working
harder, getting more done.
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The bigger and more unfortunate reason
for my blog truancy is that of the death of my beloved cat, Moogalee
(AKA WWII). I know that the last entry covered her miraculous
recovery, and I didn't want to announce her sad and senseless demise.
In October, when we were we were traveling, our cat sitter was as
negligent, and irresponsible as he could have possibly been. He left
her outside the first night (and I guess the only night) he was in
charge. Either a coyote or owl got her. I couldn't have been more
clear about how important her being inside at sundown was. I know she
went while she was having fun, hunting some smaller mammal, which is the only consolation for this disaster. I will say this: If
you are a larger mammal and you see a german guy named Frank in
Manhattan, about 40 years old, boring and dumb looking, please get
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RIP WWII<br />You will forever be in my heart.</h3>
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In December, after extreme mourning, we adopted a new cat. Life was nearly impossible without a cat around. The new one's name is 'Lil Weaz. 'Lil
Weaz is great. She plays fetch and lets us walk her on a lease. We modified our
traveling accommodations and bought a little “camper” to put on
the back of the truck. I like to
consider it the biggest and most expensive cat carrier I could have
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It was an extremely mild, extremely dry
winter. We are still praying for snow and rain. The entire southwest
is in the midst of one of the most severe droughts in recorded
history. We've gotten almost no precipitation this winter. It's
getting a little scary. All we can do is dance for rain.<br />
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We have been digging, digging, digging.
Our “hole” is now about eight feet high. We have to get through
these eight feet in order to get to ground level. It's rough. And
now, it is also about four feet of rock, opposed to the past which
was only about a foot of rock. Because of this, we bought a used jack
hammer. It's great. The only problem is that it weighs sixty pounds,
that and it doesn't move the dirt for us. So, most of our time now is
spent hauling buckets of dirt out of a trench and dumping them either
in tires or the back of the back of the house. We are getting very
close to being able to start the lumber construction of this next
room, which will be our living room.
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We also spent the cold short days this
winter finishing some of the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen. We
are now about 90% done with this one wall of the kitchen! All that's
left is the upper cupboard doors, which we are in no hurry to
complete. We have halted interior finishing work until we have
another room. We plan on finishing the next room before we move any
of our stuff into it. What a peculiar concept... <br />
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Here is a video because I didn't think the pictures truly captured it.<br />
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In february we went to the Tucson Gem
and Mineral show. IT WAS AWESOME! People ask us if we miss trees here
in the desert. We don't. We just love rocks now. I'm might be turing
new age. Here's some of the stuff we got, and a cabinet Dain built to
hold some of our haul. I did the plastering and tile work, for the
most part, our friend gave us all the broken marble we used for tile.<br />
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The other project we are embarking upon
is the construction of our mud room, and the entrance to our house. A
real door! It'll be a pretty nice upgrade. We've only just poured
the bond beam, but it might be completed by the end of summer. All we
have so far is this funny little illustration of an <b>idea</b>
of what it's going to be. It's going to include a room on top for
reading, guests, and when the apocalypse happens either a jail cell
or possibly a donjon for battle.<br />
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We are about to start our next wing! Well, it's
not actually a wing, but we are about to start tire pounding for our
next room. Our house is only half done, which I have to repeat over
and over and over because no one listens to me. Or actually, it's
more likely that everyone thinks we're a tad bit insane.
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WE ARE HALF DONE WITH THE HOUSE
(STRUCTURE).
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Half. Done.</div>
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One of the first blog entry that
has our “blue print” in it's ever so professional colored pencil
sketch, you can look at it here: <a href="http://raisehightheroofbeamcarpenters.blogspot.com/2010/07/finishing-first-u.html" target="_blank">penciled blue print. </a>When completed, we will have a bedroom each, a giant kitchen,
a living room with a lofted guest bedroom/TV hideout, a completed
greenhouse, and, of course, a fully functional bathroom. Not to
mention a giant attic storage and work space. When we have completed
this, we will continue to pound tires, and build an art studio on the
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Don't fret, we do see the finish line, in a
blurry and distant three year future. The art studio will happen when
the house is completely finished. We are only about a third done with
“finishing work.” Our three year house building anniversary was
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To sum it up, we are currently:
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-One third done with the houses
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-One eighth crazy.</div>
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-One tenth tired.
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-One hundred percent content, ninety
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It's been a few months, as usual as far
as raisehightheroofbeamcarpenters goes. I'll back up to May 2013. <br /><br />
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May was a little bit more crazy than
we're used to. We invited our closest friends over for a week long
reunion party, May 25<sup>th</sup> til whenever. To our surprise and
utter enjoyment, forty five people came. Some driving over a thousand
miles to this week long celebration... It couldn't have been more
exciting, more perfect, or more insanely magical. With a lot of
perspiration and determination, as well as two dear friends Luja and
Phoebe, we were able to build a gigantic stick and log gazebo. This
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DD, best of the best 2013. <br />
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Ream, my long lost sister. <br />
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So, we were left with a ten year supply of peanut butter.. ..... not to mention, we already had some. <br />
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And as if that wasn't enough... you can find more party pictures here:<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/2241738@N23/pool/">http://www.flickr.com/groups/2241738@N23/pool/</a><br />
(If you need my username and password for it, just ask me). <br />
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A week later, I lugubriously watched
everyone drive off, back to their own promised lands. And for the
next two days, while I did nothing but sleep, I was in a constant
surreal fog of dreams where everyone was still here. Laughing.
Loving. Living. During those forty eight hours of desperately needed
sleep, I woke only to wonder how everyone else was able to drive
their one thousand miles home. A bona fide world of a week. Thank you
everyone for being amazing, and here, all at once. I love you guys.
I'll see everyone again in three years for our second triannual
desert reunion.
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Flash forward back to reality. June
started off pretty slow for us with a much longer recuperation than
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We've poured two of our three primary
kitchen countertops. We'll start working on the third one this week,
and eventually, in that distant foggy future, make an island, and
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We built the countertop forms and
poured them in place. After a long patience inducing month of letting
the counters finish drying, we stained them with acid. The sink
counter was finished with a polyurethane coating and the other less
wet ones are getting sealed with beeswax. We got our acid etch from
the company Direct Colors, which I would have to recommend, because
they were so insanely informative and helpful on the phone. <br /><br />
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Pouring the counter slab for the sink. <br />
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I stuck a mold of my teeth in it, and an african goddess, and Dain stuck that rock in up above. <br />
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Two days later, after it dried a bunch... And then we started the form/counters for the first counter. There will be more in the future. <br />
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And then within days we poured the next countertop. Moogalee AKA WWII, loves cement. <br />
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Our general contractor, inspecting just about anything we do. She approves. This is the acid stain, which was sealed with beeswax. <br />
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More cupboards that don't have their doors yet... so not a priority. <br />
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These sliding shelves we made rule. <br />
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The finished drainboard counter. <br />
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Break for New Mexican apple pies, and a
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With the dirt we chop out, we are burying the back of our house, this will keep us warmer next winter, cooler this summer, not counting the sweat involved in order to move it.... <br />
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We almost finished this spice rack this morning! I can't wait for it to be up. It's over twice this size. You'll see eventually, one way or another. <br />
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A bug box I'm building.. <br />
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A nightstand Dain completed in one day. It looks great, too. <br />
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A cool rug Dain got at the Folk Art Market in Santa Fe. I can't figure out how to turn the image below, but you should read the care instructions...<br />
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The finished pretty night stand..<br />
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A new installation. And a pretty book case Dain made me for my cook books. <br />
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I wont make you fret. I'll start with
the good news. Moogalee, formerly and formally known across the
country as World War Two, is fine. She is looking great and in a
full and fast recovery. The past two weeks has been totally nuts. On
the third of July she was bit by a (thankfully non-venomous) snake.
We didn't know what it was though, and had to rush the Vet ER when
her foot doubled in size in a matter of minutes. She was sent home
with some antibiotics after blood tests and five hours of waiting.
Things seemed fine for about five days after that. But then she began
throwing up, and not eating. This continued for a day and the vet
told me I should bring her in the following if it continued. It did
continue. And continue, and continue.<br /><br />She was admitted to the
vet's and was looking really rough after a day of hospitalization.
After 24 hours of no progress, they rushed her into surgery. They
suggested that I say my final fairwell as a precaution, but luckily
she literally walking over the keyboard of my computer right this
second. They did not find a tumor or cancer, but they did find what
the vet referred to as “the most swollen intestines I've ever
seen.” They took a part of her poor intestines to send off for a
biopsy, sewed her up and began steroids. She almost instantly began
eating and drinking, and has started her recovery.
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She was at the vet for what felt like
the worst five days of our lives. I am pretty sure she was more
miserable than I was, but you would never know by looking at me or
talking to me. I was a wreck. The amount of love I have for this cat
may rightfully be viewed as obscene. It's unfortunate that she wont
live forever, but she is only thirteen and I am not yet ready to part
with her.
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She is almost completely back to her
normal self, and has only been home for a day and a half. She does
have something called Eosinophil, or something like that, which is
treatable with the steroids, and possibly curable. I'm not sure what
this is, because I haven't got to do the research since I found out,
last night. The vet will see her on and off for the next few months.
But we all know WWII, my Moogalee, and she is more than just a
trooper.
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Godspeed, furbrain. She shall prosper.
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Viva la Mooch. Viva la summer. Viva la
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I need to learn some spanish.
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Until next time, Amanda J Speer</div>
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Busy, as usual. Working on some of the interior of the kitchen, plumbing the kitchen, and as usual breaking our hill down with a pick axe and moving dirt for the final burial of the rear of the house. It keeps us super busy, but unfortunately, a little too tired for my comfort level. Fit though.<br />
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I wanted to save this blog entry for the grand announcement of RUNNING WATER!<br />
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It was a lot like the wiring of the solar power. Multiple trips to town to buy tiny things that we couldn't work without. Tiny problems that we would have never been able to account for. But unlike the solar power, the reality of the plumbing was that running water is pretty cool, but our “temporary” system worked so well that it this was much less of a priority for us. In fact, a bigger priority was to get the massive amount of plumbing tools and parts out of my living space, rather than getting the sink going! We still need to get our water heater and shower. These will be much more exciting than a sink that only has cold water.
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But that said, done it is. I even let the cat drink from the faucet to celebrate, like the constant drip she had in Chicago, but this is over, no more sink water for el gato.
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Here are some pictures of the plumbing laid out before installation. This was for the spacing as well as to determine if we had all the parts we needed for this particular part of the set up. We probably didn't, and we probably went to town three times before we did...<br />
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Like all earthships our cistern water that comes from our roof water enters the house, is filtered twice (a third drinking filter is installed, soon), and run to sinks and shower. It then drains into indoor planters, these are yet to be built.
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We also built our first drawers! This cabinet is not finished, it needs doors and some trim, but the drawers are done.
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And the wall! We were plastering like crazy for the past month and a half. To finish a wall in our kitchen so we could get some cupboards up. Doors coming soon, probably, possibly. We are now working on the lower counters so that we can build our CONCRETE COUNTERTOPS, that'll be in the next month or two, we hope.
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Like all our plastering ventures, this one ended far after the sun set.<br />
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Finishing things up isn't easy, but so so worthwhile...
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And now we're going to start working on the lower cabinets, so here's a footing we did this morning..!
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Here's temporary planters Dain and I made for the greenhouse yesterday. We're going to get some herbs growing in here this summer.
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This is a trellis that I am building...<br />
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The hill we've been digging out.<br />
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Here's the back of the house, plastered and ready to be completely buried (up to the attic).
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It's not all work.
Local tourism with V. Harris. Here's Dain and Vanessa.
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Car commercial.
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An old friend and new neighbor, Andrew arrived.
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And I can't help but say that this is the most beautiful cow patty I've ever seen, glowing, iridescent, a true fare well to this long over due blog entry.<br />
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Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-31589900528109183152013-03-20T15:17:00.001-06:002013-03-20T15:17:31.966-06:00Woman Made GalleryTake a gander, our house is featured here, in the online show:<br />
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<a href="http://womanmade.org/show.html?type=solo&gallery=inthegreen2013&pic=1" target="_blank">Woman Made Gallery </a><br />
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A real blog update before the end of the month.. I swear. Pictures of piles of dirt I move daily just hasn't inspired a post. But I will do one. Piles and piles and piles of dirt for you to see. I swear.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-44005936176769467352012-11-17T15:47:00.000-07:002012-11-17T15:47:15.301-07:00Slow and steady, finishing a room.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We've finished one room, completely. That is, besides three light switch covers. I can't believe how long it takes. I'd pound tires any day, over finishing work. We'll maybe not any day, but some of these days. The floor alone took about three months.
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<b>The Floor Alone
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or The Mud Floor
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The mudding a floor isn't three months worth of work, but it took almost that long. Letting the floor dry was a grueling patience inducing experience. The floor is three layers. The first is two to three inches, to flatten it out. This layer took over three weeks to dry. The second layer is about one inch, and took over two weeks to dry. And the third, bringing it to floor lever, is about one half inch thick, and not more than three quarters of an inch. The three layers are for strength, and to get it level. This last level took from sunrise to sunset to lay in one day. The last of which I had to do in the dark with a headlamp on. We finished. Or so we thought.
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After this we had to seal the floor. We're rough on everything we own, so I wanted to make the floor as durable as possible. We sealed it with a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits. The floor drinks this solution. It dries relatively fast, in a few hours. After that we put three more coats of this mixture onto the floor, letting it dry in between each of these layers. We increased the amount of linseed oil and decreased the amount of mineral spirits with each layer, until the last coat was approximately 60/40, linseed oil to mineral spirits. This process took 3 days. And is still smelling about a week later. I'm not sure if it's still the mineral spirits, or if its the polyurethan, which brings us to the last step in sealing the floor.
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I painted on a couple polyurethan coats. I used the 'Earthship D.I.Y books' recommended Varathan brand. The Varathan says that one gallon covers 500-600 square feet. Don't be fooled, my gallon covered less than 400 square feet. I put two coats on my floor, then I ran out and decided enough was enough. I'm moving in. After one more seventy two hour wait. Added to that is the off-gassing, causing just a few more days of waiting.
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And we have a floor. A mop-able, sweep-able, live-able, relatively water proof floor. A floor that glistens in the sun, and emphasizes any minute speck of dust. I could paint the floor, but I do love the rich chocolate brown color of the mud, so I wont. Mud, unlike cement, is not hard on the knees, back, and joints. It's a healthy alternative. Not to mention the cost, which is $0. Unless time is money, because if time is money, you'd have to do some sort of 3 months of drying + not really knowing if it's going to work + my patience at a rope's end x's $$$. But, I'm no mathematician, so I'd have to say it cost about... $0.
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The walls are mud as well. The darker painted walls are one layer of linseed oil. Most of the walls are unsealed adobe plaster.
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The ceiling is stained rough cut lumber. I used a brand called Transtint, and it rules. The colors are awesome, and I could mix it with water, which was great.
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So, besides this room, we've also closed in the greenhouse in the most temporary of fashions. But it's heating our house during the day. The sun sets and the heat leaves the uninsulated temporary doors within a few hours. It's nice to have this space closed in though. We can leave more stuff out there, and use it more during the day. But it's only for true sun lovers, as it gets to be about 100 degrees during the day. I'm no sun lover, but I did move to New Mexico, so I take it as it comes (daily, and non-stop).
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Trying to maintain sanity. We now have two livable rooms. This will surely help.
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<b>Walls, Ceiling, and Floor</b>
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And a little greenhouse ceiling decoration, but we're not even close to finished with this.
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<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/w-RZmyEa8krDbkPo8fO25dMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOrFiakRX1DIeKqeIr7S30R3BbC0L7Vezh_YBQ4xCAipoQoQJubwiTbmpDtE2LAfV-j-W8oJxcVlIKh1JEMcIZyet3O-O533HUeATrdPxAtYBVF5iPpvdrQ1x7sn-KSNPDxFTQ3FhPNmQY/s640/IMG_2314.JPG" height="640" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101367826418593588339/SeptOctNov2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">Sept-Oct-Nov-2012</a></td></tr></table>Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-11432025871866155602012-08-08T18:45:00.001-06:002012-08-08T19:27:24.729-06:00Flash Flood 2012Yesterday early evening, we had the biggest rain storm of the season. It has rained everyday for the past four days, poured actually, buckets full.
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The flooding arroyo in this video, or the temporary river is a road we usually drive down. Luckily there is an alternate road that we usually take. We drove down this "road" about 20 minutes before the flooding. I thank Lakshmi: we didn't. I thought we'd be struck by lightening, but in reality we would have been washed away. Well, who really knows, maybe I was running away from an adventure. Either way, I'm glad we were home to see it instead of stuck in the middle of it. This has only happened one other time, two years ago, since we've been here.
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You will also see a hummingbird we rescued, it flew away after a few minutes, but that's not recorded, and also the first wall we adobe plastered. I still have to seal it with linseed oil. This wall is one of three in my bedroom. Two more to go, then the floor as well and a wood plank ceiling. Eventually, we will be back in that room. Two rooms! What a luxury, I can't hardly imagine.
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The music in this video is by Single Moms, our band. The recording is very rough, but I thought it felt right.
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SUMMER 20-12</b>
<iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1bSpnlaF6kA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-9548823650544630912012-06-29T11:23:00.003-06:002012-08-08T19:28:00.403-06:00With Googley eyes, we exist!This just in: google has updated it's satellite pictures! The time has come! I don't know how long this has been up, but I do know that it is at least a year old. We don't have any roof up, and there is almost no greenhouse built yet!
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I'm so excited about this, I have been waiting. Dain found it. I don't think you'd be able to find it, it's too far out there.
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From the far right, our truck, and then follow our little path to our cabin (which has a blue and white roof), and keep going and you'll get to our house, what it looked like a year ago. The car isn't there, so maybe I'm at work. You'll notice the busy metropolis of bushes.
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This entry will be filled with both house and life, since it's been so long, and we've been living in such a vivacious style. Rewind to late April when we took a trip into space. My favorite place on earth, which is a few hours drive away. Unless you get lost on back roads, and then it will take about eight hours to get there, and your horn will eventually vibrate out from underneath the hood and onto the washboard gravel road.
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We took a field trip to the Ghost Ranch to learn about the dinosaurs who used to claim these lands as their local stomping ground. We collected dinosaur bones that were scattered all over the ground. A bit of enchantment is actually a constant out here. Luckily for my mother, a friend was with us and he took some pictures of me. Here you go, Mom. Thank you, Joshua.
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We were attacked by gremlins in late May. This is why the blog never got updated. They ate my hard drive and ransacked our house! I knew we shouldn't have fed them after midnight but Dain wouldn't listen to me. We won the fight, but I'll spare you the gory details.
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Here is the front of our house one month ago, and two months ago, which will help you understand that we have been doing something out here...
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(This is actually February, when Nora visited, but you get the picture.)
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One month ago:
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Earlier today (it's actually even more done now):
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The western wall of our attic is still made out of the good old fashioned plastic/carpet/rope combination. This is a challenge that we are going to have to live with for quite a while longer. We made a tarp that can be raised during rain storms. It has a real nice boat feel to it. The boat aesthetic is one we have been enjoying and are planning to continue to incorporate it into our decor.
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We have been busy, closing in the entire front, in order to get our gutters up and our water catchment started. Here are some up-to-date pictures. It's been frustrating and slow. We somehow managed to get every last pane of glass for free. The frame of this greenhouse is made out of redwood, and it's turning out beautifully. You may notice the two little windows that still have to be put in, we did that earlier today, but this picture was from this morning. Damn it! It's already out of date!
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The bottom of the house is now closed off with cement. It will be buried with dirt up to the bottom of the cement. All of those cans will eventually be HIDDEN FOR ETERNITY. You can see the mosaic we made in the front of our house with broken ceramics we've collected over the past two years.
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Finishing up the cement and mosaic:
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Cans flattened and used for siding (work in progress/we need to get more cans/eat more coconut milk):
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We've also been able to use as much power as we want. We are rich in power. We've been able to make music, digital art, non-digital art under BRIGHT LIGHTS, watch movies on a huge old completely energy inefficient tube TV, and use the sewing machine that was Dain's Great Grandmother's. After some re-wiring this old Singer has been godly. I'm just now learning how to use it, but I'm not lying when I say: IT HASN'T JAMMED ON ME ONCE! It is amazing. I am in love.
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Here is a dress I made: My 2012 summer look is a synthesis of comic book attire, post apocalyptic dress wear, and the desert discomfort.
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Inspirational look.
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Making art, playing music...
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Our band, Single Moms, will have recordings available soon.
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We have been at it for two years on July 4th. You can rewind like a archeologist and click back to the first entry, July 4th 2010 and check out of "ground breaking" explosion.
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A new thing we are trying out is something called... what is it? How does it go? Is it called... taking it easy? I can't really remember what that is.. but the vague memory of it sounds so appealing.. it gives me a warm bubbly feeling inside.. I'll let you know how that works out for us when it comes into action.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-22845802258045474342012-04-04T17:42:00.008-06:002012-08-08T19:35:26.291-06:00Is your refrigerator running?Mine is.
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MY REFRIGERATOR IS RUNNING. I still haven't fully grasped the concept of owning a refrigerator. I have lived out of a cooler for about two years now, and that is over, over, over. R.I.P. It's over. I had a bad falling out with Coleman.
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In the past month and a half, we have done quite a bit. The house building never seizes to stop. We installed our stove! That was exciting. If you live off grid, you can only have one brand of stove, and I love it. I bought the ridiculous huge one, and haven't regretted it yet for a second. It is a Peerless, and it uses almost NO power, just propane. It only uses 2 watts to light the flame. This is important, for people who have "limited" power. I'll get to that.
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The stove has six burners, a griddle, and a gigantic amazing oven that has so far made beautiful quiches, cookies, breads, pies, and more. I am in love. But it's ugly, we're going to have it painted at an auto body shop!
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<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jw0biPTnxkOK8S4gnlCSu9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmYXQ4QZqR-HHdqOq7Y8syJRV_mG8xx-sga19ZpNh-mapx792TpG42ZT2CwOOR10fZ5Egzzp8qkiC9uA6sbyR_p8Yjo22GCvmN9Z9mSL3IdYSBShyIHRbPDNOFABlGNP4ZyYgez4mIT9U9/s640/IMG_1615.JPG" height="427" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101367826418593588339/BuildingTheUtilityClosetSolarPowerFall2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">Building the Utility Closet, solar power, Fall 2012</a></td></tr></table>
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I hate to admit that the six burners are most awesome because: You can keep so many dirty dishes on them! It came with a griddle for the middle burners which is pretty awesome. You can make six pancakes at once! So, first was the stove.. Then hell broke loose when we moved onto our next task: Power.
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I'm going to try to keep this a short update. One without too many details. I've been so stressed out with solar power, wires, thousands of dollars being spent, thousands of hours being burnt out, and the never ending project we found ourselves knee deep in. This has probably been the most insane month of work we've had yet.
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Now it's over. Mission accomplished. We have power. We are going to go to a museum on Friday. I swear. And maybe I'll have time to get my camera fixed this month!
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We now have enough solar power to do basically what we want, when we want, and run our refrigerator off of it, too.
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Phew.
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We started with our panels:
We installed four 240 watt Canadian Solar panels onto our roof using an Albuquerque companies "professional installation materials." This company called <B>DPW</B> and they are totally rad. You can go visit them, they know everything and extremely helpful. This was the easiest part of our project, getting these huge, heavy things up onto the roof. (I'm not saying that this was easy, just the easiest thing we did in the past month).
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Each of these panels is about 50 pounds. They are about 3 x 5 feet. They have been working awesomely! They get an incredible amount of power in cloudy weather, and they are about $1.20 a watt. We bought them at Affordable Solar in Albuquerque. The people there know next too nothing, but the equipment they sell is the cheapest. Recommended only if you know what you want before you show up.
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We had to build a completely enclosed structure with a completely sealed box to put our four L16 fork lift batteries. Here's the batteries before we installed them:
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We then started digging. And building. Same old thing we do when we have to build just about anything at this point. I somehow managed to be too stressed out to document very much of this. And it really happened pretty fast. Picture nothing here, because that's what what there, and then this, our new UTILITY CLOSET!
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<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/M0F7rpCpjOe9XjCEcg_X-NMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHyY1i_Z49cBlTwU5f_JIYHbUKGSYFUEekyxIeTxYbMDKMLbn-hJC8JW3yDY09igY09cDpgHWSAA4W6kV3CUYi8Wmww14Y-e2oDwzkEvbdfjSUCZdPZ2X9KhRI-2wzqWCcxzjWQUUutDQ/s640/IMG_1602.JPG" height="640" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101367826418593588339/BuildingTheUtilityClosetSolarPowerFall2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">Building the Utility Closet, solar power, Fall 2012</a></td></tr></table>
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An adobed structure, that will soon be decorated to resemble a rustic cottage. We built this closet to hold our solar equipment, and our water set up. Right now it's only holding the solar stuff, because, well, the water stuff has yet to be installed.
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On the outside of the "cottage" cabin, drum roll please... the FRIDGE!
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It's only been plugged in for a day, but it's amazing so far!! It uses what seems like no power at all, though it does use a some. For a fridge it's incredible! This Hotpoint (model HTH18GBC) is totally huge and quiet enough. It's ugly, as almost every fridge I've ever seen is ugly, but we'll paint it.
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Ice cubes! What a revelation!
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<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/U4Ze2AAagth76pz2GGoyatMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwPhhixNvnYKd-ny6Z_iq-19JSSbh8J9k3kptOd8ZnrK5HxzBtuu_vC1SlSEqu4TTJhaZZwv6ZT5bwQsGXFAiH2Fx8DMerHhr0TOCCyqf5KDRVQDqwbtF2a3MyHDMBoIF_Jrr407H0-gZX/s640/IMG_1606.JPG" height="640" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101367826418593588339/BuildingTheUtilityClosetSolarPowerFall2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">Building the Utility Closet, solar power, Fall 2012</a></td></tr></table>
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Cold food! That's not in a cooler! That's not 40 feet from the house, outside, in a blizzard!!!
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<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2ZjTdFBHn6X8b4CMW316-tMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOQacf1rsO670EGBaoJgKTs1PFnWfX5_EWhS9gzGdO1M2AGWRSeTsR0M8eqM4C0youCl0w9Ozz05wxz0giKdfzDlnNBSmtM2L8NxCi5uOsBSUXJkjS-sYDRWI_S_40IToUZQZ6l2s_7jfe/s640/IMG_1624.JPG" height="640" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101367826418593588339/BuildingTheUtilityClosetSolarPowerFall2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">Building the Utility Closet, solar power, Fall 2012</a></td></tr></table>
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Buying all our solar stuff, inverter, batteries, charge controller, cables, wires, etc, etc, etc, around 6k.
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Making this salad for lunch without having to go to the cooler once? Priceless.
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<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/AeCyUMBivN1uICQLmkYSSdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYE8xez9beYEkRg6qhcPwFpNdLw-sbEAN6Mx2cM06_bDNKIGaS_C55GxdkSydHJCVszIvnfQHqB2tc1FE0IVaZTjx81auwTMy5vBih-u6dADWOydW9e11JzCbmzSwhSSvL1u33EYBQhx-n/s640/IMG_1621.JPG" height="427" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101367826418593588339/BuildingTheUtilityClosetSolarPowerFall2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">Building the Utility Closet, solar power, Fall 2012</a></td></tr></table>
<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RvhOewSdaaZAchoPPNuLAtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2iUzIODuKFdcR5ZSigMvfhJuv2zkyyf-oFgiTNnGgTASh-dzUDrIc8PF09aq7OmJMxhq78LLRYVkZyNsouqjXdwBL4I76GNZEGtf33o7jvqirXDUfcD17Ga-B3pe7E11KvzDCapFKVMQT/s640/IMG_1593.JPG" height="427" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101367826418593588339/BuildingTheUtilityClosetSolarPowerFall2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">Building the Utility Closet, solar power, Fall 2012</a></td></tr></table>
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My operating cost? $0/year. The only thing we'll for sure have to replace is the batteries, once every 10 years or so. Knock on wood we don't have too many mechanical failures. We'll see. It'll be worth the price. I can't believe I lived so long without a refrigerator.
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After a gazillion hours of research...
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We built a little closet...
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Put together a few crazy pieces of machinery...
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Hooked them up to solar panels...
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And feel like kings.
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I wish this was over, but we still need to wire the whole house:
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Wish us luck. I'll write more soon, I swear.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-20054053367629558062012-02-24T16:25:00.004-07:002012-08-08T19:36:00.156-06:00Homemakers galore.Hello world,
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Winter is about to be over, and I'm feeling much more inspired. Working on the house is the same: Never ending, extremely difficult, but rewarding as always. We've put up "half" our roof which is all that can go up, seeing as the other half of our house doesn't exist yet. Following? Anyway. Here's a video and some pictures. Lots of love from the good old southwest.
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Here is a video of some progress! UGH: The sound didn't work on the video. Oh well, maybe I'll fix it, but maybe, I'll just make a new video instead.
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A few months ago our house looked like this...
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We've put up the "rest of" the roof. "Rest of" meaning that we are still building two more rooms on to the house.
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And, we had some visitors! Thanks for coming guys.
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Wow. This is a bad picture of everyone. Yikes.
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Here is the back of our house from the road!
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I will update more, eventually. ;)Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-32746348611337883512011-12-28T16:47:00.004-07:002011-12-28T17:51:40.913-07:00Another Merry BirthdayI don't have a house update. Maybe I don't have any readers anymore. Only a life update. Heave and ho, ho, ho. Either way, I'll write.
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Christmas eve we went to the San Juan Pueblo Dances. I only recorded the sound, because I thought the camera would be inappropriate. It wasn't, I guess, because lots of people were taping it. Here is a picture from the blog <a href="http://speakingloudandsayingnothing.blogspot.com">Speaking Loud and Saying Nothing</a>.
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Here is a sample of my field recordings: <a href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/980004112f54e8da/">Christmas Eve Dances Sound file, click here</a>.
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It was out of control amazing. A beautiful culmination of a bastardized Spanish Catholicism and magical ancient pueblo rituals. I will assume that the dance would have been even more spectacular if the Catholic Zuccetto and Mitre headgear didn't make an appearance, not to mention their religion. Regardless, it was an incredible event that I didn't know was so open to the public. The Puebloans made my holiday and were a yet another heavy reminder of how lucky I am to be able to be here.
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Christmas festivities and gift giving don't seize to exist out here, off the grid. Even the yard was decorated by Dain and his old hair dye water.
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And I can't figure out if Dain gave me the Julia Child Mastering the Art of French Cooking first and second volumes, or if he gave them to himself. As I will be cooking from them, for him. But they are beautiful, and I love them already.
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The first dish I cooked from them was a whooper. Crepe de Gateau aux Florentine: A 24 layered Crepe dish with alternating layers of filling: Spinach and cream, and mushroom and cheese. I didn't have spinach, so I used tilapia and brussel sprouts and cream. You also top this ridiculousness with a white butter and cheese sauce. It was a little out control and only fit for a king. Recommended only as a suicidal heart attack inducing delicacy.
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It barely fit in our small oven.
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The cat liked it.
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Dain did too.
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I made Dain a really insane clock. The elephants at the bottom spin around.
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And for my birthday, we went to some beautiful hot springs a few hours drive away. And had a hotel party. This was in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I can't recommend them more. Also, if you want to go to the weirdest little place, this might be it! It was great. We even saw a yard full of dinosaurs!
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I don't know what could have rapped up this explosion of fun better than this:
<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6UdJD6kxRk9yrcQYDThN4NMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmsunijsudh25K4vpK_OgaJots2vWr6PhJRy2SHh8rN349-uXuMtbp2jnnifrXlgospTASoQHf4PRHkXpPkBPG-If0J8uIx9UuohYZ4aqGD14NzWW4wTSCAnNkQOkXlOER97JXLT1jL1RD/s640/IMG_1469.JPG" height="640" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr></tr></table>Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-33862821495763642072011-12-01T15:37:00.005-07:002011-12-01T17:12:04.853-07:00Rolling out of the bedroom and into the kitchen.We moved out of our old room, and into our new room!
Here is the latest video:
(Full quality, pretty big file)
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(Low quality, loads faster, looks worse)
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Old room vacated until we get the roof on top of it! Here is it:
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Out with the old, in with the new. The new room is incredible. It's almost as big as our tiny Chicago coach house! Hooray. And in a few months we'll be able to live in both, and also, we'll be able to start some finishing work! But first, we need to put the rest of the roof up.
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Eventually, this will be THE KITCHEN. ONLY. THE. KITCHEN. Not for some time though.
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We're also going to start to working less, now that we're at this phase. WORK LESS. LIVE MORE: 2012.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-20916526731541535872011-11-10T12:24:00.003-07:002011-11-10T12:57:18.896-07:00Cold Cat Falling Off the Hot Tin RoofOUCH!
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This morning WWII, the legendary, lionized, calico cat, decided to break her tail. Decided to walk on our stapled up vapor barrier, which appeared to be a cat floor. It broke, it was only temporarily stapled up. She fell. Her tail suffered. We think it's broken. We don't know what we're doing yet. Pray for the poor tail and it's cat.
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On another note: same as always: I haven't updated because we've been insanely busy and we've gotten a lot done. Etc. Etc. Here goes.
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We got half our roof up. It's the roof over the kitchen. We're moving out of the room we're in, and into the kitchen in a FEW DAYS. Then we will start working on the next roof, over the other room we were in: GOOD BYE PLASTIC ROOF FOREVER.
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We are finished closing in the wall to this room. These pictures are taken over the last few weeks. The brick is where the sink will be on the other side, and the planter on this (greenhouse) side. The glass with stuff in it is bathroom wall. There is minimal visibility into it, but it still gets some sunlight.
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All hail ET.
From the "Bathroom" looking in.
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From the "Kitchen" looking out.
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This is the back of our house, Dain standing in the attic. We'll put that door up tomorrow (and the insulation in, and than MOVE IN (this room is much bigger))!
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Two days ago, I woke up to an early snow fall. It's all melted now. It was pretty. If we had our cistern hooked up we would have got at least 100 gallons of water from this 1/2 in and this 1/4 of a roof we have!
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More to come, after we move in. Wish my cat well.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-28726731904470972022011-10-06T10:36:00.004-06:002011-10-06T12:09:24.091-06:00God 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.
<p></p> 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.
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This is from early in the week. We started framing the door and windows on the left side of the room.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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<p></P> I pray that the next post is of our roof.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-29494518613448171322011-09-28T17:01:00.002-06:002011-09-28T18:59:04.902-06:00Taking shape.World War Two thinks she's a mountain lion. We can't brake the news to her: she's an ordinary, lowly house cat.
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It's getting so big! We've ordered our metal roof and we'll be putting it up next week, hopefully.
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A bull snake crawled into the tires! It was a few feet long. Cute, for a snake. These snakes are good, they eat mice like crazy, and eat rattle snakes too. Yum.
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Maybe this will be the last pie I bake in our temporary kitchen... I doubt it though.
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This is what 1000 feet of string looks like when you drop the spool off the top of your house.
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We got our sink!! Our SINK! OUR SINK! It's HUGE too!!
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Almost as big as the encyclopedia I picked up!
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We also (drum roll please) got our front door! And attic door! They are beautiful! Solid, carved wood! Cedar. They smell amazing!
Front door:
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Attic door:
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If anyone wants to send me money to get my camera fixed, go for it.
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<p></p>Fortunately our plastic roof is somehow still holding up. We had few intentions of having this improvised roof for such a long period. It's working, in an intricate maze like way. Keeping us dry. Thank you plastic sheeting?
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A funny thing that I wouldn't believe you if you told me: Plastic sheeting is extremely expensive. If we find 12 feet X 100 feet for $60.00, we're excited! What a joke. I never thought I'd spend so much money on plastic.
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Plastic: Not lovely. Waking up to this, very lovely.
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Sometimes I feel like I live in Jurasic Park. Thank you mother earth, I love that movie.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-73843249778412113922011-09-08T10:45:00.006-06:002011-09-08T13:11:21.765-06:00A kitchen with a roof and greenhouse, OH BOY.I haven't updated in a over a month. This is not because I have given up. It is not because I have been sitting around. Quite the contrary. Besides the fact that we've been super busy pretending to be carpenters, raising roof beams, etc. I have also been knee deep in work at my "real" job, or rather, the job that pays the bills. (Work at home, work at work, work at home, work at work. I outta retire in five years due to exhaustion, but for now: work at home, work at work, repeat.) Work at work is where I get my internet and try to post a blog. I am currently the assistant director of a Teen Center. And yes, we have fun, almost too much fun, usually. High school lunch doesn't get out for another forty five minutes, so I don't yet have 40 high school kids to hang out with at this moment. That said, Voila! Here is my long overdue, action packed blog post. <p></P>
A month ago we started working on the greenhouse! We were finishing up the trusses for our roof. These "trusses" are being made out of scrap wood that we get from our local saw mill. They are free, free! FREE! Except for the price of screws. We've put over 50 pounds of screws into our house so far.
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This is from about a month ago:
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And we built on! Collecting enough wood for these trusses is a little bit of a challenge. Driving to the saw mill takes time, and when you get there, you have to hope the scraps are good. Eventually we collected enough. The pickings have been a little more slim compared to last year, but we're not yet complaining. It is free.
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After this, we finished our greenhouse bond beam which allowed us to attach wood to the tire wall. As well as the rest of the kitchen roof trusses.
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And then we were able to start the greenhouse construction! It took us over a year to build the outer three walls (the tire walls), and only four days to frame the front face (the greenhouse wall). Phew. I hadn't been that tired in a long long time. But we did it! It was such a great relief, too! Here's a nerdy photo of two very accomplished feeling individuals from my camera's self timer. We lifted that huge thing up all by ourselves, only dropping it (and completely breaking it) once, while raising it.
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Our greenhouse is made out of redwood: which means $$$. The wood is supposed to last in the humid environment that we'll be creating in the future.
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And: Ta-da! We finished over half of it! You are looking at our greenhouse, minus the glass that's going in there!!
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And, I leveled the kitchen floor! Soon we'll be able to tile with the tiles we scored from the Habitat Re-Store. Well, "soon" as in: we need a roof first. But that's around the corner!
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This will be the view from our bathroom!
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And speaking of roof, we'll be putting one onto our house in the near future!
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Alright. You are now UP TO DATE. I will make you a promise: I will update more than once every five weeks for now on. Promise. Wish us luck!Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-19332186062034476562011-07-27T14:44:00.005-06:002011-07-28T14:41:49.804-06:00Finally, a ROOF D. SI. TiON.We have come to a conclusion that picking out a roof from the company "metal sales" is worthless. They offer the most bland assortment of colors. Beige, dark beige, light beige, gray, dark gray, light gray. Etc? Why is it that Americans enjoy these colors? It hurts my eyes, my soul, my head. I was depressed this morning, when once again, we stared at our sample color chips. It actually almost gave me an anxiety attack! We don't need this "pro-panel roof" except for the fact that it is a lifetime option, one of the most inexpensive, and it will possibly NEVER need repairs. So, in a way, we do need this roof.
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Here is what the have to "offer" (please try not to cry):
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<p>Bland, bland, and blander can not stop us. </P>
We've decided to do this:
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We're using all the colors. Take that metal sales!
A rainbow of roof. And, if you're ever flying over us, you'll notice. Otherwise, it's not even going to be that obvious, unfortunately.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-10866840440209693282011-07-20T17:20:00.002-06:002011-07-20T17:44:22.728-06:00Burning Hot Oil, Mid Summer Work PartiesA lot has been getting done 'round here!
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We have had guest after guest after guest. We've had a stream of friends coming in for the past month and a half. My cousin is here now helping us work. It's been busy busy busy, and I'm excited for winter down time: long lonely dark nights, getting snowed in, etc. But as for now: We are here, working, sweating, and then working some more.
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We have been working on the front wall of our house. We will be putting up the slanted glass wall on this tire wall. The cans are put in place for our bond beam. This winter we will have so much more space! As well as more heat, because the house is buried more, and also: we'll have two glass walls! A real roof too! And not to mention, we'll be getting our solar set up, refrigerator, and kitchen soon! What a dream. What more could we ask for? A bathroom maybe...
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We are getting very very close....
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The sun hasn't been treating us too well, a lot of people are saying we are beginning to resemble gnomes. Here is our most recent portrait:
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A ridiculous mural that I painted, with my friend Ossian, for my cousin Sam:
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And in other news:
I burned the living day lights out of myself with some hot oil. It splattered all over my neck mostly, but hit my face and shoulders too. It's the worst I've ever been burnt. But at least I dyed my hair orange first so I looked awesome whilst being burnt.
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That was the first day... It's been three days. Now they are all exploding blisters. It hurts. If yr gonna do it, do it all the way:
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Ouch,
Amanda J SpeerAmanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235491121055824995.post-17234404593905504182011-06-23T16:00:00.002-06:002011-06-23T16:22:49.415-06:00...it's getting hot in here...Roofbeams being assembled. Adobe being assembled. Kitchen being assembled. Friends being assembled.
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July is here. It is hot out. And in. We still need to bury our house. It is always colder than outside, but not quite as cold as one would want it. For what it is, it's manageable, even for me.
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We are putting together our roof. Building scrap wood truss after scrap wood truss. We'll be done in about two more weeks maybe. Hopefully sooner. So many visitors though, it distracts us from the labor. And two more on the way... summer has begun.
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We build these for the price of screws:
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We have also been experimenting with adobe. We're pretty sure we'll be able to make it with our local dirt and sand from our property! This is exciting, because it'll be free, and efficient. It feels good to make adobe. It's so much easier than cement. It sticks more, and is cleaner and non-toxic. So, our current experimental recipe is: 1/2 dirt with clay in it from a specific site on our property, 1/2 sand from our arroyo, and two hand fulls of flour and straw that we got out of dumpsters.
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Using the adobe as filler on the walls, eventually we'll plaster with adobe too:
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And a final note: the fires wont stop. The pollution is insane. We haven't had a completely clear day in months. I am glad that they aren't any closer, but we can see the one in the Santa Fe forest burning. It's not a pretty sight. Stop stop stop the fires. The pollution does make for out of this world sunsets and moons.
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<b></b> More to come.Amanda Speerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225167691430900599noreply@blogger.com1