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Barely growing in wet floor

Mud floor layer # ?

Pouring adobe floor over scoria

Bed room shaped

Bedroom floor leveled

Mic places the mirror in wall

Dana making cob

Ceiling with gypsum and sand plaster

Insulation going in

Dormer imperfection

Rainbow over Oasis

West side with cistern

Into the bedroom

Taos window light

Bedroom windows

Trim ready for stain

Fatty insulation

East side with new plaster

Taos Window- circle

Mixin station revisited

Let the plastering begin-

Solstice Darkest days

Window light - noon

Solunit in the snow

Door from inside

Door- and walls

View from the west

West front wall in

Floor in ( Take 2 )

More mud for the floor

Front west wall

John has 'goo' suck to his hands

John and Kindra helping cob

Wow. What a difference

Wall system minus mud

Future of the wall

Solunit front roof under construction

Front after infill

Smoothed SW corner

Smoothed wall- such a joy

Porthole - smooth wall

A Applying Aliz like paint

Angela the Alizer

Such wonderful scenes

Mushroom are growing

Warming the floor-

Aliz- Red clay mixed with sand

Lill Apricot is loving the rain

Still much to do on the front-

Solar powered electric mixer

2008 cornerstone

Earthworks filling up

Rounded window frames the view

Jim on operation oasis

Jim helping me with the dormer

Playing with colot

More mud for the rocket stove banco

Sol shining in the summer

Portal with LED rainbow lite

Embedded speaker in wall

Sculpting the serpent eating it's tale

Bedroom smoothing out

Burlap over wood

Taos Mnt. window

Wood from the dump

Lining up for the wall

Circle window ready for cob infill

Earthen floor drying

Many dinosaur turds...

Sun shining in from the west

Filling in with 4- - earthen goodness

Floor taking shape

Working it in by foot

Kevin tamps and does some heavy wheel barrel lifting

Mic levels the crusher fines

Cob covering framing

New kitty in the window

Entrance to space sans sliding glass door

Pallet framed closet

Arch for the bedroom popout

Burlap over wood frame pre-cob

East bedroom popout

Collecting local rocks adds up

Bedroom popout and shared closet space

Facing earthbag stem wall with rock

Double wide earthbag stemwall

Might have to redo the window buck...

Earthbag stem wall 2 bags thick

Front- now with window

Scoria for floor base and insulation

South side framing

Front with front posts

Bags that came from the hole

Rocket stove hole with pumice layer

Wintertime state....

Gutters into cistern

Solunit Nov 4th

Picture from outside

Scratch coat North

Top row still to go...

Western sun setting

NE corner with mud

You have to begin somewhere

Electric weed wacker cleans the bale surface nicely

NW Corner with trimmed straw

Northwall filling in

16 bales at a time...

Inside scratch coat

Walls are growing

Northwall with bales

Cob - Earthen stuff

Light clay cram wall

N. Earthbag stem wall with mud

West wall scratch coat

Scratch coat in the office

Vertical 2 x 4 supports

Baling wire ties on support

Exterior west wall with bales

West wall baled

SW corner with window

Light clay cram

West wall with rock faced stem wall

Inside the future office

Rock faced earthbag stem wall

North wall dry run

SE Corner with patio door

SE window and mud on the bags

North window buck framed

Look South from behind

Dry run of north wall

View of the south wall

North stem wall- not yet in line

Some tamped- some not.

Window and mill-ends in place

View from the South

Oasis Site behind the sage

Minimal rebar use

Earthbags SE wall

Leveled and filled

Level foundation

Leveling Rubble Trench

Filling earthbags

Back with new and improved roof

Patina green propanel

Mic on the new roof

Todd saves the day with his roofing skills

Josh ( the water boy) does the heavy lifting

Josh and Todd helped install the OSB on the rafters

Above ground... finally.

View to the East w me

View to the East

1- Rock and transport

Crusher fines and Rock... 15 tons a piece

Mic on lumber order

Diggin in the heat

Collecting rocks for stuff

X marks the spot

Pissed off ants...

Earth sculpting

Digging 3 - 4 '

Existing trench

Site in relation to pod 1