tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34169737872413700132024-02-06T17:52:51.382-08:00Playing in the muda summer of building with earthKate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-30731185989865208172012-09-24T21:02:00.000-07:002012-09-24T21:02:05.033-07:00Its all coming together<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, thanks to Britt Nielsen, I finally have photos to post. I must
admit, I have kinda fallen off the wagon on the photo taking, and since
her photos are always way better than mine I just wait to get hers!<br />
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the last week we have been installing the earthen floor, slate roofing
all week, finishing the interior plaster, putting up decking and tar
paper on the porch roof, healing cracks in the earthen plaster and
filling cracks with a sand heavy slip paint, and finish plastering the
ceiling.<br />
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It is incredible how much it has transformed
here at the end. Who knew that our moldy scruffy-looking straw-clay
walls could become these beautifully smooth orange-brown earth colored
walls and that our tarp-covered roof could become this gorgeous
blue-grey slate masterpiece?!<br />
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So without further ado, I present to you the almost finished WASI retreat cottage! <br />
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<span id="goog_794808580"></span><span id="goog_794808581"></span><br />Kate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-31136849520322651982012-09-14T19:33:00.005-07:002012-09-14T19:43:52.133-07:00Gettin' plastered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a few weeks since I've updated you all on our progress, but
we've been moving right along! The last few weeks have been earthen
plaster central, including 2 Saturday work parties with our new found
community of natural building friends (both new from the workshop and
old friends from the neighborhood here). <br />
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We also managed to finish the leveling layer of our earthen floor and
the earthen plaster on our ceiling. And the plaster on our garden
wall. And starting slating the roof. It's all coming together!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BEAUTIFUL natural built house at Earthaven (nice work, Steveo!)</td></tr>
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I got lots of food for thought and inspiration last week,
with both a tour of Earthaven Ecovillage and AsheVillage (the creation of
Janell Kapoor of Kleiwerks in Asheville, NC).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Super efficient earthen oven</td></tr>
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Let’s start with AsheVillage because I’m obsessed with
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So…basically this is the kind
of place I would like to create in Austin or wherever I end up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a natural building and
permaculture demonstration site right in the middle of Asheville.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is in an urban area, which makes it
actually accessible to people and makes educating more and more people about
the possibilities provided by natural building and permaculture a reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a collection of three adjoining
residential properties right in a neighborhood that together make up an acre of
land to work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the front
two properties are the (fairly large) houses that came with the property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These have been lovingly redone by Janell and friends with
natural plasters and finishes, vaulted and fun shaped ceilings, niches, and
beautifully colored natural paints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Here are some photos from the front two houses (one of which
is rented out as a guest house, which provides a revenue stream for the
property…brilliant!):</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the guest house bedrooms</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bright yellow walls in the dining room. And bamboo curtain rods...I like that.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Storage niches</td></tr>
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Then, there are the gardens and all the permaculture
development of the site, which involves and extensive stormwater catchment and
filtration system (under construction), an aguaponics system (where a fish pond
and plant growing are linked with water and nutrients cycling through each and
forming a symbiotic relationship…and you can eat the fish!!), water features,
and tons of plants and herbs and flowers overflowing the property!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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More photos:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trellis for plants to grow on, and behind it is the aguaponics greenhouse...so cool!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty water features!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of trellised tomato plants</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a work in progress, but still cool!</td></tr>
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Lastly, there is a small natural built cottage/tiny house
built in the back and plans for many more, plus plans to expand their current
outdoor kitchen/tool shed into a full fledged outdoor kitchen with big windows
and a porch with a view. While we were there we talked about the idea of making small living spaces that are just enough to provide a place to sleep and some personal space, but don't encourage the habit of staying inside all day in our comfortable houses and never interacting with the world. When our houses are so large and comfortable that they become a bubble we can live in, we are never encouraged by those spaces to go outside and interact with the world outside our house. So instead, build small and then have separate buildings for your bathroom and for your kitchen (maybe even have an outdoor kitchen or communal kitchen). This encourages going outside and being in community with other people. I like that way of living so much!</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6HynkI8UnDjgF0KutECMEWNseFn4YjcefUqskJpYJ0c_S0HXiutBybCX_9ONLaybx5nO3ilTpJQQNTyDgVDB5ES1-jtOeIdJZXwcl740nKFG_k8eoGk1rDAkoRx3pVnAv7FIZ2AwClNQ/s1600/earthaven+hut.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6HynkI8UnDjgF0KutECMEWNseFn4YjcefUqskJpYJ0c_S0HXiutBybCX_9ONLaybx5nO3ilTpJQQNTyDgVDB5ES1-jtOeIdJZXwcl740nKFG_k8eoGk1rDAkoRx3pVnAv7FIZ2AwClNQ/s320/earthaven+hut.jpg" width="320" /></a>OK, now onto the Earthaven tour! Wow, that was fun too. They have so much going on there!! Huge 13-sided community building built like a yurt, lots of different creative natural built houses from tiny huts to very large creations, composting toilets, wood-fired sauna, and a beautiful home built by our workshop instructor Steveo that kind of blew my mind. So beautiful.<br /><br />Here are some photos (thank to Tan for most of these!):</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wood-powered sauna</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweetest balcony/deck I've ever seen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Community house roof: built like a yurt!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Earthaven house </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr>
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Kate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-37959622400176896052012-08-15T09:34:00.000-07:002012-08-15T09:38:19.721-07:00What a beautiful community we have<br />
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What a beautiful week!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In all ways the Natural Building Workshop this last week far exceeded my
expectations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had been sort of
anxious about it due to all the logistics to pull together and all the new
people to get to know and the nervousness about teaching…and of course once we
got to it none of that turned out to be worth worrying about (is anything
really worth worrying about?!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
turned out to be one of the most exciting and inspiring weeks of the whole
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First of all, we had an AMAZING group of people for the
workshop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People came from all
different backgrounds and all different ages and in one week we managed to feel
like one big family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People were
incredibly courageous and inspiring to me in so many ways: in the kinds of
sacrifices they made to be there, in their openness and willingness to be
vulnerable with each other, in their beautiful visions of the kind of future
they want to create for themselves and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reminded me that I really am part of a much bigger
movement, far beyond just this apprenticeship and this cottage build; a
movement full of amazing and fun people that I get to stay connected to and
inspired by for the rest of my life.</div>
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We learned a ton of new techniques this week too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a whirlwind!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned about base coat plasters,
finish plasters, earthen paints, straw bale construction and detailing, adobe
wall construction, chorizo (a straw-clay like wall system), wattle and daub,
and more of the details of navigating building codes.</div>
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So here are some photos of the week:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me talking about the cottage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah showing how to install cedar shake roofing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plaster mixing</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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We got to visit Earthaven Ecovillage for a super inspiring
tour of the various natural buildings on the property, including a gorgeous
house that our instructor Steveo built there:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The group at White Duck Taco in Asheville!</td></tr>
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Kate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-68377146252399143942012-08-05T17:59:00.003-07:002012-08-05T18:01:44.447-07:00Feelin' accomplished<style>
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Straw-clay walls: done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bottle wall: done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Roof decking: done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tar
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It’s been a busy couple weeks and it feels like we’ve
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cottage looks like a real building now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was starting to feel like we would be making and stuffing straw-clay
in forms forever, but now we’re done!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Other than patching the holes in our wall (so…our straw-clay tamping
technique wasn’t quite perfect), we are finished with the straw-clay portion of
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This next week is a BIG week for us here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are hosting an eight-day natural
building workshop and have 30 people coming to stay here for the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s exciting to be having such an
influx of new people (although a little intimidating to think of playing host
to all those people) and to get to learn so many new things in one week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the end of the week we will have
started plastering the cottage, have a timber frame porch on the front of it,
an adobe garden wall made, some kind of sculpture/relief work on the courtyard
yard side of the cottage, finish plaster on our cob oven, a second cob oven finished, a cob bench made, and
a straw bale wall.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Girls from the boarding school on Highland Lake that we had over for an adobe workshop. They really got into it!! (literally...)</td></tr>
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</div>Kate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-20303186166282347852012-07-22T08:49:00.000-07:002012-07-22T08:49:02.814-07:00The Deluge, and other adventures<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Making straw-clay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, it’s been quite some time since I’ve written, and I
blame the rain.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Yes, it’s all the
rain’s fault.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> No, but really, it
sort of is.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> It has been raining on
the daily for the past two weeks.</span><span style="font-size: large;">
First week it was pouring all day every day, then last week we got epic
thunderstorms every afternoon around 4pm that turned the whole building site
into a giant mud puddle and sent us scurrying to cover the building in tarps
and protect all tools, belongings, and precious building materials (fully
coated slip-straw is just straw when it gets rained on).</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Also let I remind you, I live in a
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So how has this stopped me from writing blog posts? Well, it hasn’t, but it’s a good
excuse. Let’s just say I’ve been
preoccupied trying to keep myself and my belongings dry and free of mold (the
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Put cleats (parallel strips on the rafters to hold the lath)
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Filled in most of our earthen floor. Lots of dirt first to bring in up to
grade, then gravel layer for drainage, then foam insulation (boo, our perlite
and foam peanuts idea didn’t work), then vapor barrier (to keep moisture from the ground from soaking into our
earthen floor), then sifted dirt with a little sand in it, tamped with a
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Put up the framing for our walls. Put in studs to hold door and window bucks, and future
shelves. These also break up the
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only to find they were too springy and have to take all the bags of them back out.</div>
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So you can see we’ve been busy. Hooray for learning curves! But despite all the rain and setbacks the building is
looking awesome, the group has managed to get along throughout and maintain a
positive attitude, and we are learning a ton. And hey, the more mistakes we make, the more we will learn to
never make those mistakes again.
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PS. i realize these photos don't make it look very rainy, but believe me when it was raining it was not the kind of weather to pull out a camera in! </div>Kate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-28860265221389140202012-07-09T10:41:00.001-07:002012-07-09T10:41:55.185-07:00My timber framing adventures...in video form!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here's a short video we did to introduce everybody and give a peek into our first week here. (so first week was a couple weeks ago, but I take a while to get organized). Katie and Emilie did the interview and I put it together with the titles and such on iMovie. Yay teaching myself basic video editing! (My more recent iMovie exploits coming soon with the video about our timber framing week).</span></div>Kate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-61576087948182638342012-06-18T11:11:00.002-07:002012-06-18T11:11:32.175-07:00We raised a house in 6 days!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week was a crash course in timber framing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By timber framing, I don’t mean nailing
a frame together out of 2x4s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
mean traditional wood frame joinery with mortises and tenons and wood
pegs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No nails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No screws (ok, so I think there were 2
screws in the whole thing, just to hold the rafters together at the top).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So we started on Monday knowing absolutely nothing about
timber framing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 6 days, with
the excellent guidance of our instructor Sarah, we learned new tools and
techniques, measured and planned out locations and sizes of mortises and
tenons, carved them out, cut out braces and posts and tie beams and plates, and
assembled them on Saturday with a crew of volunteers to make our three bent
frame for our cottage.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our awesome, badass instructor, Sarah</td></tr>
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It was a challenging week for the group, but we pulled
together really well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of new
information really fast, lots of long days (working into the evening with
headlamps on Thursday and Friday), a lot of communication and teamwork
necessary to make everything come together on Saturday. And hey, we didn't even want to kill each other by the end! I'd say that's a good sign for our group.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gathered around for some instruction</td></tr>
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But at the end of the week it was incredibly satisfying to
see what we had made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the
planning and detailed work and long days produced this beautiful, perfectly
fitting timber structure that will be seen on the inside of our finished cottage
and will be enjoyed for decades and decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There was much good local beer drinking and music playing
and singing and skinnydipping to celebrate <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfect end to the week.</div>
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Here's some photos from the raising day on Saturday: </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laying out bents 1 and 3 (a bent is 2 posts connected by a tie beam)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More layout</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raising bent 1. I am the one in the plaid shirt and the blue pants :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bracing bent 1 in place</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raising and bracing bent 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All three bents up!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bracing bents against each other. The temporary braces will be removed later.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look, temporary floor going on top of our floor joists! Britt is excited about this...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished!!! ...for now.</td></tr>
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<br />Kate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-23224616176612229442012-06-13T16:34:00.000-07:002012-06-13T16:34:59.480-07:00A little tour of my new home!It's been a busy week doing the timber framing for our cottage, but I thought I'd at least give you all a little photo tour of my home here.<br />
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So here goes:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really like this photo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out through the gardens toward the lake (lake is to the left)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Breakfast under the canopy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vicki in our little kitchen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The yoga studio out behind our building...and a slackline! Maybe I'll master it yet...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking down toward the lake</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path from the lake</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The chicken (and turkey!) coop</td></tr>
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<br />Kate.Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13824955426548984020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3416973787241370013.post-24110140920508134832012-06-05T18:27:00.001-07:002012-06-05T19:09:06.173-07:00I think I have arrived in paradise<style>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greenhouse, gardens, and the crazy white peacock</td></tr>
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...an exhausting paradise, but paradise. Today is day 3 and I already feel like
I have been here for weeks. We
have our adorable little tent village in the woods, are cooking meals for each
other, getting to know each other, and starting our first project: a cob oven.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cob oven! from left: Britt, Marina, Katie, Karen, Kelley, Vicky</td></tr>
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Side note: I must say, I have a bit of trepidation about
starting my first blog without Lissa, my excellent writer from our roadtrip
blog. I will just have to tough it
out by myself on this one….and you all will have to endure some not as humorous
writing. Although we’re kinda the
only ones that think we are funny anyway, so maybe you won’t notice a
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Anyway, I am so excited to be amongst such an enthusiastic,
passionate, inspiring group of women.
It is a pretty diverse group of different ages and different
backgrounds, which is really cool.
I think we will learn a lot from each other’s life experiences. Everybody has something different to
offer, from being a professional dancer, to knowing how to make homemade mole
and homemade tortillas, to having a past life as a massage therapist. Also, I’m being challenged a bit on my
cooking skills as we have limited ingredients (at least this first week) and I’m
not the most creative cook. Maybe
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So I am happy to be getting into a routine of waking and sleeping with the light, learning new things every day, being outside all the time, and being out in nature. I could get used to this! </div>
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Ok, here are some photos:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moving heavy logs using leverage!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Makin a really rustic bench</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woo! I know how to use a drill!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Home sweet home</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our little tent grove. This is my living space for 4 months!</td></tr>
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