Kitchen tires: D-O-N-E

Kitchen updates are here! We've been busy. With visitors galore! Can't wait for the next two weeks: MOMENTS OF SILENCE. No visitors will be a good thing, actually. I'm not saying I don't like my friends.. but, I mean, we did move out here to be hermits. Of sorts. Secret Hermits, I guess. KITCHEN! 100% Tires done! 100% retaining wall (can wall) for bond beam done! 90% Bond beam done! 40% Wood for truss support done! HURRAY! We are also building the front wall so we can put the greenhouse walls up. Hopefully we'll get this done before winter! HURRY! This is last month: and now (it will be one more tire high, then we'll put the glass wall on and have our INDOOR GREENHOUSE!!): Done with tires for kitchen, done with can wall, almost done with bond beam (one more day of work!): And a view from the top: Alright! Cheers to digging, cheers to leveling the ground! Cheers to Pounding More Tires! Cheers to exclamation points!

Earthship Movement on KUNM

So, I guess I was on the radio a few months ago. Talking about building an earthship. Check it out! Here is the link if you're interested: Earthship Movement on KUNM

Kitchen walls

Well, every home needs a kitchen... it looks like ours might happen sooner than expected! Here are some photos and a ...one minute video... !!!!! We're starting the GREENHOUSE walls too!! And... um.. our pathetic garden, pray for it, please.. And also, paper macheing giant heads... I guess I'll post the finished projects in a week or so..

Half done with kitchen walls!

It's been a busy month! Everything here is wonderful. Spring is in the air, which is almost awesome. The wind here is outstanding and sometimes out of control. That's only one or two days out of the week though, usually. For the most part, it feels like summer here, which makes me unbelievably happy.

Everyday has been a productive one. We're six tire levels up, out of our ten tire high walls! Over half way done. We're really moving fast with this one. Dain & I can pound a tire in fifteen minutes, no problem. It used to take me forty five minutes to pound a tire sometimes! We'll be done with these tires in a month. We have about 100 more to go. If we didn't have to knock down the hill in the back (to make the next wall, the back wall of the living room), we'd be done in two weeks. So be it. We're getting some of the next room done too, which was awesome when we began these tires a month ago.

Here is a picture of some friend labor from exactly a month ago:

And a picture from this morning: We cemented some rocks into the wall this morning, did a few tires, some digging, and a little more cement. All before noon. Then we played a game of scrabble. I won.

It might seem like I always win, but I just don't write about the loosing*.

*losing with loosing.

A video!

A very low resolution tour of our "house" ............! More to come (video, and house).

Cowboys & Dirtykids

This movie (cowboys & aliens) is either just out, or about to be out... I don't know if I'll go see it. It was filmed a few miles away from my house...

See! Neat! Yet another busy day at work...

From FRIENDS

Starting our kitchen! (aka: livin' my dream)

We've been super busy, doing super awesome things (what's new, right?).

I got a job. An awesome job, that's just 3 days a week. I work at a Teen Center. I can either hang out with the teens, or not. I am setting up an art class. There are no teens here right now.. and there haven't been any here at all today.. but the center is brand new, so hopefully it'll pick up. Besides, I wanted to update my blog at a leisurely rate, so it's all for the best.

We've started our kitchen wall! We are now including a curved wall in the back of the room, where we'll put a built in couch. We always planned on the couch, but never planned on making the wall curve around it! This was exciting. More exciting than any job could ever be. Here is the kitchen wall. One row of tires done, thanks to Dain! Who doesn't have a new job, or a part time job, but that good old full time house building job. I have two part time jobs, one where I get paid. One where I throw my back out 3 or 4 days of the week swinging a sledge hammer.

And thanks to the Teen Center's lack of attendance, here are some mock-up's of our "floor plans." A lot of people are still in the dark about what our house is going to look like. I mean, to some extent we are, a little, sometimes. The plans change constantly too. Never for the worse though. Some people have even thought that we were done. Let me tell you this: There is no way in hell I would live in one room for the rest of my life! We are building three more full rooms (bigger than the first even), a greenhouse, and a bathroom. Not to mention an outdoor patio with a BRICK OVEN! I'm not kidding! A brick oven. You, my friends will always be welcome over for pizza pies. And our roof is plastic right now! We're estimating that we'll get a real one around the end of summer. We're thinking of making it bright orange, but that's still up for decision.

From Kitchen!!

Anyways, here are the mock-ups.. to hopefully clarify a little.. (you could also go back to the beginning of the blog and read it, because I did go into a lot of detail over the last year...!) Oh, and our neighbor found a dead bobcat down the road. He told me that if I had the stomach for it, that I should go grab it. I did. We road bikes down there and got it. It was pretty messed up, but super amazing looking. We were afraid it would have diseases WWII would catch, so Dain buried it. We'll dig it up for the skeleton in a half year or so. Oh, and it's spring. Which means that winter never happened. I love New Mexico.

From Spring! Again!

Alas, back to the "grind." I'm going to go work on a sewing project I brought.