Sunray Kelly, Bonnie and Eli makes a visitl

Sunray added the roof structure onto Gabriel's treehouse

(click here to see some of Sunray's past work)

Wall plastering part 2

Below, Edgar hard troweling on the lime/sand plaster

Plastering with lime and sand

below is clay/straw/sand plaster on left with rough coat of lime/sand on right


below is next step, rough sand/lime on left. on the right below is putting on
a really fine lime/sand finish


below is fine finish on right polished with a yogurt top


below is our finish plaster ready to be put on the wall

interior

this shot is from a month ago. i will post more soon, its pretty much done!

tree house and arched door

Arches and treehouse

bag work

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Recent work

This is why it has been so long since I have posted. It takes many weeks to complete just one job. The 2 photo's below are an earthen wall going up along the road. The foundation is rammed earth tires and they are placed in a traditional bricklike pattern. Above the foundation is around a yard of cob.

Interestingly enough to me is that I harvested all the earth for this cob wall from less than 6 feet away from this wall; when I got near the end of constructing this wall the earth physically started to change; the clay rich soil gave way to a pink clay; perfect timing; I took this clay with a 1:1 ratio of rough sand, and armful’s of chopped straw and lathered the whole wall with this.

Below photo. Trench for an earthbag retainment wall.


below is the start of the base for a table, the big wooden wheel will lay on top of this base


below is the cob oven with a lime finish

Avocado Tree

Tire Wall updated

tire wall

Cob Oven