February 9, 2011
Planted seeds today. Bought potatoes, 100 pounds.
January 23, 2011
Still spending a good bit of time monitoring the temperatures in the green house. Tim added three 50 gallon trashcans of water for thermal mass. We added a borrowed heater as well. These teens and twenties at night challenge the heaters to keep it above 40 degrees. But the temperatures are much less extreme. I have added a compost bin and worms for body heat. Hopefully, with a few more worms and a lot of insulation, we will conquer the greenhouse temperature flux.
Any materials for insulating are appreciated.
Clear plastic is at the top of our garden wish list.
Also
trays, pots, potting soil, red wigglers, watering can, spray bottles, starter plants, and seeds
January 12, 2011
Snow and ice have kept us inside most of the time. We have made sledding and snow ball fun a priority.
I have managed to transplant 25 aloe plants donated by Charles. For sale in the spring.
Time to start seeds. Now starting cauliflower, lots of greens, and carrots. I will start many other varieties over the next 4 weeks. Peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and leeks.
December 27, 2010
Happy New Year!
Check out Tim's New Blog page
Thanks to donations received this holiday season, we will be able to purchase stone and mortor needed to complete the foundations of the front south facing walls. We also plan to buy the windows and framing needed for the south walls. Keep a look out for BIG double insulated picture windows. Thanks.
How to make infused oils
Take any herb you enjoy and flavor your favorite cooking oil by steeping the herbs for at least 10 days. You can then strain the herbs or leave the herbs and put in a decorative bottle. Add a holiday tag and give to your loved ones.
What to do next?
Some of my favorite herbs to use
Garlic, Rosemary, Basil, Thyme, and Ginger
You don't have to stop at cooking oils. Moisturizing and massage oils can be infused with skin nurishing herbs and fragrant flowers.
Some of my favorite herbs for massage and beauty oils
Calendula, Elderflower, Lemon Balm, Lavendar, Comfrey
Always remember to be super diligent about cleanliness. Sanitize your equipment, sterilize your jars and rings, always use new lids, and wash your hands often.
Water can spoil your oils and shorten their shelf life. Heat your jars/containers in a warm oven for 15 minutes or until all evidence of liquid is gone.
December 17, 2010
The Season of Thanks.
Thank you.
The cold has frozen our sugar snap peas and some of our greens.
We have maintained 50 degrees through the coldest nights in our greenhouse. So what do we do on those cold, snowy days? We get ready for our starter plants. This is the time to steralize potting soil and germinate seeds. To steralize compost, place it in a pan no thicker than 4 inches. Cover with foil and heat in a preheated oven at 170-200 degrees for 30 minutes. Using a meat thermometer is helpful to determine the internal temperature of the soil, but not neccesary.
What to do with your infused oils...
I also spent some cold days on the infused oils that have been steeping for at least 10 days. These steeped for 12 days. I strained the oils through a sieve and warmed them on the stove. While the oil was warming, I melted beeswax. Then I combined them and poured them into tins.
These are healing salves for dry, cracked skin, rashes, and broken skin
made with Comfrey, Calendula, Lemon Balm, and Peppermint.
Tim has a blog now
check it out Tim's Blog http://earthinmind.net/TimsBlog.aspx
December 10, 2010
Our Fall Garden
Still plenty of greens for all! The cold has frozen the tips of our sugar snap peas and some of our greens. We lost the soft green lettuce pictured in the back ground.
Starts are planned to go into the COMPLETED! green house towards the end of December.
We are shopping for seeds.
Bulk buying opportunites, contact us.
Tim and Julius, as well as others, have begun a wood working shop in our community space. Julius has made a bench with the help of his dad. And Tim has built two bar stools, all from local wood, hand worked into beautiful hardwood, outdoor/indoor furniture.
Tim's Two Barstools
SOLD SOLD
The green house is COMPLETE! Glass in the front and the back wall is finished as far as plywood goes. Tim made it weather tight by adding pond liner to the bottom of the walls (buried in the ground). FOUND a glass door! Ken donated a door knob. Tim and I will add a heater this week. We are shopping for seeds and anxious to start our own starter plants! Pics Soon.
Looking for rain barrels...How to Help
November 18, 2010
The Season of Thanks.
Thank you.
Our Fall Garden
We have several successive plantings of Collards, Kale, Turnip Greens, and Mustard Greens. Onions, Garlic, Sugar Snap Peas, and Lettuces fill the spaces.
Plenty of greens for all! Starts are planned to go into the green house towards the end of December.
The most recent updates on the house
This is taken from the top terrace inside the earthhome.
Notice the frame for the kids sleeping loft on the right.
Tim and others have been milling wood for siding and framing. There are plenty of down trees and the mill has been donated for a time. Our earth home is waiting for wood scraps and milll ends for the back walls and spaces between windows, windows for the front walls, and scrap built in boxes for the cob wall. Plumbing and electrical materials need to be gathered and laid. Then the cob can be completed. Move in is in the spring so we need to get moving.
Tim has framed up the community green house. The walls are under construction. Looking for rain barrels...How to Help
From the back door on the upper terrace.
Notice the hand laid rock on the right, built with local materials.
Tim and Julius have begun a wood working shop. Julius has made a bench. And Tim has built two bar stools, all from local wood, hand worked into beautiful hardwood, outdoor/indoor furniture.
pics soon
October 20, 2010
It's Fall!
We have several successive plantings of Collards, Kale, Turnip Greens, and Mustard Greens. Onions, Garlic, Sugar Snap Peas, and Lettuces fill the spaces.
Looking for fresh produce?
Excess produce is now for sale. Pick up only.
Contact us for info.
The most recent updates on the house
Tim and Don have framed in the sliding glass doors. The loft is coming along.
There is a mill on property and we have been utilizing it. Mill ends and scraps will be used for lumber on our earth home.
October 7, 2010
Mushrooms on the roof.
We have completed our move. Settled mostly. It is a continuous adjustment. The kids and I had to find time and space for our school year to begin which took great adjustment. But we have carved out a comfortable place to call home for the winter.
Our earth home is still moving forward. This week the loft will be framed. We have two beams in the air. Three more to go. Hand tools and patience! Thank you Dan and Don. Mushrooms and greens are growing on the roof as you can see in the picture above.
So many emotions this past month. Having to leave our Carrollton home, the faulty brakes on the bus (our moving bus), the transmission on the truck going bad,
getting through it ALL just fine
and collapsing in what already felt like home...
I'd like to thank our community for the generous energy put toward our move-out/move-in. All the hands made a big difference! The smiles, too. Home is where the heart is, Thank you Heartwood.
Thank you Larry for working so hard on the bus! Thank you Dan, Julian, Scotty, Jess, Jay, and Bill. A special thanks goes out to Ray and Kay for hauling our beautifull sauna, loading and unloading.
September 14, 2010
What a wonderful cobbing weekend!
Saturday our home was packed with so many cobbers, we had to make SIX batches to keep everyone busy! The kids pitched in sifting clay and loading sand. And of course they were fabulous at cob dancing! Danny started on another project, the sleeping loft. Thank you everyone! Stay tuned for pictures of the loft.
We made clay balls again. This step was omitted last session. We just rolled our last "burito" right onto the foundation. We found that while rolling the "burrito" onto the wall did save us some time, it took a lot of energy to get it in place. Then it had to be molded and sculpted properly which took some time. All in all I think the ball making is easier, although time consuming. However, we also had some of our most engaging conversations while sitting and looking at one another making cob balls. A good opportunity to build community.
The wall came up three inches or more.
We ran into a problem with our gas generator, the pull cord broke. Luckily we were able to use Heartwood's portable solar generator to power our electric drill for mixing cob.
Thank You Heartwood!
This week has been a trying one. Our house in Carrollton was foreclosed on by the bank. Something we knew would happen as soon as we embarked on this journey, but it has taken some time for it to happen. And in that time I got used to it always being there when we needed it. Whether it was just to do a load of laundry and watch a movie in the air conditioner or a place to quarentine our family during an illness, it was a comfort. All our Carrollton family and friends are a comfort.
I will miss my Cow town family.
Luckily we are not far away.
Now we have a place in Heartwood to call home. Our project will continue. And the bright side is that now we are free to fully commit ourselves to building the community. We will have no need to go to Carrollton to pay bills or check the mail. Or cut the grass.
We can be here. Now.
August 23, 2010
The change can be felt every morning and evening now. It is cool and so nice on the hill. Fall is close. The cool weather is appreciated. The garden hours are spent preparing fall beds and harvesting tomatoes and peppers. Soon we will plant garlic and onions. Collards and kale.
We scored some awesome FREE sliding glass doors, 5 ft wids, just like we needed. Thank You Tom. Tom saw an ad on Craigslist and forwarded it to us. Scan our materials list for other items we are looking for and keep an eye out for us.
We also scored some alpacca wool for insulating in between the windows and doors. We were planning to use straw clay (Straw dunked in clay slip and pounded into wood forms. It dries and the forms are removed.), but opportunity has lended change to our plan. No worries. GA mountain fiber has plenty more. Thank you.
The Roof
1,000 pounds may sound like a lot, but this is what it looks like.
We decided buying a light weight growing medium would be the most efficient way to get a layer of top soil on the roof. This weekend we added more soil. And planted the first thousand pounds with clover seeds. Thank you Ken for the donation. I would like to plant a crop of winter greens; collards, kale, mustard and turnip greens. Any seed donations are appreciated.
This is the rock foundation Tim has been building. This picture is taken from the front of the house.
From the inside.
August 11, 2010
Roof Construction
Part 3
Two rolls of straw and 1,000 pounds of top soil. The top soil that naturally occurs in the forrest is really just a couple of inches of thatch or mulch. Not really the best growing medium. And the clay is too heavy and awkward to move onto the roof.
We decided buying a light weight growing medium would be the most efficient way to get a layer of top soil on the roof. However, our local supplier had run out when we went back for more.
This is our current roof.
This weekend we will add more soil, whatever means neccesary, and seed to root and hold all the soil ON the roof.
I would like to plant a crop of winter greens; collards, kale, mustard and turnip greens. Any seed donations are appreciated.
Community Gardens
Our gardens have produced a bounty of food this summer. Over 100 pounds of potatoes, 50 lbs of sweet potatoes, hundreds of tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, lettuces, and a few spaghetti squash.
The peppers are still making.
Now is the time for tidying up the spent growth and readying the beds for fall crops.
This week we plan to plant two rows of greens in place of the potatoes we dug. Collards, kale, and lettuces with radishes too. We love broccoli, but it is a hard one to grow from seed. Seed and plant donations are appreciated.
Our Outdoor Kitchen Project
We finished the main countertop side of the kitchen. Now I'm working on a smaller countertop mosaic.
Its hard to see the design without the grout. Finishing the tile work today. Grout by the end of the week if the weather cooperates.
The main area of the outdoor kitchen
August 2, 2010
Roof Construction
Part 2
Furry Roof! Well, it looks furry.
This is recycled newspaper insulation.
Our EPDM was almost big enough. Our volunteer crew covered what we could with the liner. We tarped the whole roof to protect the small sections of insulation from the elements. We found some smaller peices on craigslist at about 50 cents on the dollar.
Glued EPDM liner
Our Community Gardens
were harvested this week. We estimate 50 pounds of Heirloom Ga Jet Sweet Potatoes, and 100 pounds of white potatoes, also heirlooms.
My Organic Heirloom Cherokee PurpleTomatoes are selling!
Local restaurant, Harvest on Main, buys 15- 20 lbs per week.
This week I took the excess to the local Farmer's Market and sold out on tomatoes!
And canned the rest.
Outdoor Kitchen Project
is coming to a close.
July 25, 2010
Our roof construction went well.
Part 1
Tim added a layer of Tyvek to protect the canvas tarp. It may be a redundant layer, but better safe than moldy! On top of the Tyvek, we added recycled newspaper insulation. The 14 bags of insulation filled the truck bed, but unfortunately only covered a small area of the roof. They had to purchase 30 more bags to finish. Thanks again Ray!
We took a siesta. It was about 100 degrees. We had planned to get back at it by 4pm. But at 3 we heard thunder. Rushing to protect our new insulation we unrolled and rerolled the pond liner.
Check Back Soon for the Finished Roof Pictures!
Mid-summer Sunflowers
Our three sisters are doing well. Studies have found there is a good chance our ancestors planted FOUR sisters. Tall straight corn, climbing beans that climb the corn, and squash for ground cover. But there is evidence that a fourth sister brought the pollinators, a big bright flower. A sunflower perhaps.
We chose to use sunflowers as our tall straight plant. Scarlet Runner Beans have a bright red flower and sunflowers are big and bright to attract pollinators. Spaghetti squash covers the ground.
July 17, 2010
Oh, the ~GRASS!~
Lovely rains and soil fertility have grown more than just tomatoes!
Our community garden is doing great. We have harvested early potatoes, greens, peppers, tomatoes, and beans so far. Pretty good for a first year garden.
We also planted a cash crop area of 130 Heirloom Cherokee Purple Tomatoes. We are harvesting 20- 30 lbs of tomatoes per week. This is only the beginning! We expect these numbers to double by the end of the month.
We are selling to a local restaurant, Harvest on Main in Blue Ridge, GA. We will also use the local farmer's market to sell on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Please Contact Us for tomato sales.
Wild harvested foods help supplement our food supply.
Blackberries grow all over the property and local roadsides.
And I found a pick-your-own Blueberry farm.
I spent some time this week harvesting and preserving berries.
An Update on our Brick Oven Project
June 3, 2010
Oh, the gardens.
Three sisters mound. Fresh Greens!
Tall Autumn Beauty Sunflowers in the center,
Climbing Scarlet Runner Beans with beautiful red
flowers, and Spaghetti Squash for ground cover.
All from heirloom organic seeds.
First Bell Pepper One of the first tomatoes, we have 130 plants.
Peace and heirloom vegetables.
We are also working on another project.
An outdoor kitchen.
The deck on the bar side
Brick Oven foundation
Dome Style
May 25, 2010
We made a little more cob and sculpted it into our interior thermal mass with steps, cubbies, a storage bench that doubles as guest quarters, and who knows what else will find a home in our cob.
It's planting time, so much energy has been put into the garden.
More to come.
May 18, 2010
Thank you so much to everyone that came out Saturday and Sunday.
Several batches of cob were made and applied to the foundation.
Here's the play by play...
Moisture barrier on the earth berm, tucked into the gravel trench/french drain
Moisture barrier on the floor tucked into the gravel
More gravel
Rock foundation to keep the cob off the plastic
Soaked clay, sand, and straw mixed with feet
We made cob balls. The mix was a little wet. We thought it may help dry it out a little.
We omitted this step Sunday to conserve energy.
Cob on top of the gravel at the end of the day Saturday. Holes help push the straw through to the layer below it.
Some say it also helps dry the cob.
Cob over the foundation
Since we omitted the ball making stage, we had to roll the burito shaped cob batch onto the wall using the tarp and a lot of muscle.
Then we used our feet to mold the cob into the spaces.
Setting the second step
May 1, 2010
Our roof is coming together!
April 26, 2010
The canvas tarp has been ordered. Next order, pond liner. We'll need a few hands to get it in place.
Please enjoy the
Seed to Table pictures
Phase 1 2009 April 2010
April 18, 2010
Seeds have gone into 10 rows in the garden. More planting is planned for this weekend. Cauliflower, lettuce, spinach, sweet potatoes, sunflowers, beans, and peppers have all found a home in the beds.
Community work days are every Saturday.
Volunteers welcome!
We are shopping for a canvas cover for the roof. Soon the roof will be ready to assemble. Be on the look out for pondliner and plastic for us. Thanks! Canvas too!
March 28, 2010
Spring gardens have been started in the big field. We scored a trailer load of horse manure. Green manure for the compost bins. Potatoes are planned to go in this week, greens and strawberries too.
Bell Peppers Strawberry Four Sisters Mounds
We ordered some thick slabs for the roof decking. Tim and Forrest nailed them in. Plastic soon!
March 21, 2010
Workweekend was a success! The compost bins are built and ready to start compost. The camp faired the winter well. We tightened the tarps and straitened the rest out. Everything is now ready for the wonderful work season ahead. Cheers!
March 17, 2010
Seedlings are doing well. Time to seed some plots. We are experimenting with gardening techniques, new to us.
The donated mill ends were transported and added to the roof. It's so close to completion. Soon the "green roof" layers can be added.
Compost bins planned for the workweekend.
March 1, 2010
Thanks to all the wonderful children that came to our planting workshop and brought their parents. The collards are up. The lima bean runes are 5 inches tall. Other seeds planted for another project have sprouted as well; lemon cucumbers, cherokee purple tomatoes, medicinals, wild flowers, and more.
February 2, 2010
Kids Imbolc Planting Ceremony
Carrollton, GA
Newspaper pot making with the kids
We'll fill our pots and plant some seeds. Some have saved their bean runes from samhain to plant. Seeds will be provided, but feel free to bring you own. This could also be an opportunity to swap seeds.
mill ends for the roof de-barking the mill ends
Janruary 24, 2010
Permaculture plants and seeds have been ordered for the 2010 growing season, Phase 1.
January 21, 2010
Our Permaculture design is in progress. Sending out orders for plants and seeds to arrive in the spring. Starting seeds this week.
As I sit and count the hours untill Tim gets home, I am reminded of the reason we longed for change in the first place. Sustainability became a common topic of conversation in our home a little more than one year ago. Struggling to stay on top of the ever growing mountain of bills became unacceptable and unsustainable for us.
When Tim works for someone else, the fruits of his workday quickly vanish into the next job priority. He comes home exhausted, satisfied for a work day well done. But disappointed, for it is usually time to send the kids off to bed. He delights in hearing stories about their day from me, beaming at their accomplishments and brainstorming with me as to how to help them through their next challenges. But what he really wants, what we all want, is for him to be with us. Life is much more pleasing when your daily efforts give you daily pleasure.
We have peeked through the window during our work fillled summer last year. We caught a glimpse of how our daily life could be. So fufilling were the days of rising and eating together, working and playing and retiring to bed as a family. I hope this year will be as enjoyable as the last and much more. I smile knowing that we will be together in that space again, soon.
January 3, 2010
A local saw mill has agreed to give us the mill ends we have been looking for, for FREE! Thanks Mike!
Two loads so far. And I think we have a borrowed trailer to haul them with. Thanks Bill!
December 2, 2009
Rough hewn cedar boards have been purchased from an Amish community in Tennesse. These will become the north wall. More will be needed. We will continue gathering materials on our Items needed list.
December 2009
Happy Hoildays
from us at
earthinmind
November 2009
Tim's finger is healing fine. Rain and cold weather have slowed us down.
Focus is on gathering materials and preparing for spring.
Some cedar has been purchased from an Amish community in Tennesse. More will be needed.
October 20, 2009
With the unfortunate amount of rain and the accidental chainsaw to the finger, the cob must be postponed. We will continue to finish the roof. The rough hewn cedar boards for the back wall will be gathered/purchased. We will continue gathering materials on our
Tim is fine. He'll keep his finger and all range of motion.
It is still sore so he's trying to take it easy but he's already back to work!
October 9, 2009
So much rain!
But the cob must go on.
The rafters are being lashed together split branches. Tim de-barks them and splits them with a frow.
Cob building
Come help us build
an interior cob wall.
Lunch provided.
Many hands make many muddy prints.
Come play in the mud again.
Saturday October 7th
Cob is = Sand, clay and straw mixed with water
The name "cob" comes from the shape of the blobs of building material. They look like corn cobs.
Cob dance = stomping feet up and down to mix sand and clay and water
Cob blob = Double handful size if cob, kneaded and mixed with straw, ready to be pressed into a cob structure
September 2009
The RAFTERS are UP!!!
It seems like as soon as they were up, the rain began. And it hasn't stopped since. We are very excited to move forward with the next step. Cob.
the prop in place
Thanks for helping DAN!
September 2009- So the newness has worn off and so has the easy. Its hot. The days have been long. The kids want to know why we can't just buy a house and move it to the mountains? School has begun and homeschool is not so easy to accomplish in a camp scene. Walls seem to help focus them better than the grand outdoors. Luckily we are about to begin a great experiment with cob. An educational experience like no other.
Some things I've learned...
Toilet paper is an invaluable commodity
A wet nap can be priceless in the right moment
Magic happens all around us every day, weather we choose to see it, hear it, experience it, or not
August 24, 2009
Our arched side doorway.
Taken from the master bedroom loft
This week we will scout the forest for more dead standing timbers to use for rafters. Our next challenge is to find a mill or other source for planks and boards to attach from post to post. Tim will split small branches, if no other scraps are found, to attach the roof rafters together. French drains must be dug out again as the rain has washed dirt into much of them. Then we will place a bit of moisture barrier and begin the stone foundation for the interior cob wall.
August 19, 2009
Our Front Doorway
ALL THE POSTS ARE UP!!!
ALL THE POSTS ARE UP!!!
The beams on the back posts have been installed. This week we have begun to set the beams on the front/VERY TALL posts. This is much more difficult, walking up a ladder with a huge round wood beam and then lifting it over head to set it in place. More wood must be scouted this week as well as debark them.
Julius likes the draw knife. He is good at it. Wish his attention span was longer.
Lots of HELP!
August 12, 2009
August 12, 2009
Beams are going up on the short posts. All but two posts are standing now.
^ "Big Moby"
Thanks for the help lifting "Big Moby" into place. The massive oak took 7 people to place.
Left to right; Tim, Jo, Michael, Glenn, and Ronnie. Paul and myself didn't make the photo.
Thanks again to Paul who helped Tim and I place the other huge oak, just right of Big Moby. Only two posts left to be set. Then beams will be placed across the top. And finally rafters . Then our skeleton will be complete. Planks and split limbs will tie the skeleton together to further support the structure and give it more form.
July 30, 2009
We have five posts set!
The much anticipated moment has come. It has taken so much time for the dig,
that it's almost surreal actually stepping back and admiring the work we've done.
And here's the man who makes it happen through sun, sweat, and rain,
sun-up to sun-down. He's working hard to make our family's project a success.
We strived to follow through with Mike Oehler's 5 plastic bags and tape and tamping to set the posts. But we had concerns about the depth of the holes not being enough support. Rock was hit in several places only inches down. We went back and forth and finally decided to go with Mike's idea. But the bags bulged with air pockets. Tamping the dirt into the hole relieves the air and creates a more stable footing. However, Mike dug 3 foot holes which was proving difficult for us once rock was hit. We went back and forth weighing the options, researching for more options, and weighing those. So as a second or third choice we decided cement must be used to secure the footings of each post. We were able to use one bag per post. Hopefully we can use one bag per the rest.
July 17, 2009
Rejoicing in the glory of harvested sun rays.
Yes, the solar power system is up and running! Now we can play with the capabilities, how much of what we can run, etc.
The french drains are beautiful! These will be filled with the excavated shale. The french drains will give any water moving through the earth and towards the back of the earth home a place to go. These areas will be backfilled and packed with earth against the walls of the earth home.
Wonderful NEWS! Road work around the corner finally brought excavated rock right to the property. A road is being widened and there were several dumptrucks of byproduct. Wonderful, hard, stone in huge flat pieces. Pics soon...
July 6, 2009 edited 7/10/09
The digging phase is coming to a close! 
our three terraces The digging phase is coming to a close. However, french drains and the foundation for the stawbales still must be dug. That will only be a foot or so. Then the post holes may be dug. Our solar shack, as we affectionately call it, is coming to form. Tim has finished building the solar panel mounting rack TODAY. We'll be plugged in soon on the hill, plugged into the sun that is. We met a producer and she passionately offered to work on a video documentary with us. She'll be here this weekend! We are totally stoked. Anyone interested in helping should contact us via email earthinmind.net@gmail.com or telephone. 770 328 0331 We will need several hands to steady the posts and beams and rafters. We have some pulleys and a come along and also some chains. |
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June 22, 2009
Our stairway to heaven is slowly coming to form. The rough grade is dug. We are anxious to finish digging the extra foot deep foundation for the strawbale walls. We will mark where the posts are to be set. Beams will be added to form a sort of skeleton frame.
Other projects have been the focus lately. Another composting toilet has been built, a double pooper!
Community building projects in the works as well. Pictures soon...Stay tuned.
Wildlife encounters
We have had several run-ins with theives in the kitchen. Mouse, squirrel, and we think an opossum. Not so bad, besides the half eaten chicken in the coop. But by far the largest, a bear. Only our camp mate has seen it and only when we were away with Roscoe.
We decided to always keep a dog on the hill.
And Roscoe is such a great dog! He has come into his own out here. He is healthier and happier. Thank you roscoe!
May 30, 2009
the third terrace started steps organically formed from the rocks excavated
Lots of green things being planted in the orchard.
This is a temporary garden. The plans are to plant the field next year and expand the orchard as well.
May 16, 2009
An awesomely productive week!
Seeds are being sown. Seedlings are finding beds.
Our foundation becomes more defined every day.
May 4, 2009
It rained all week so no pictures were taken. However, Jess and Jay came again and we had an amazing afternoon Saturday. We moved 6-8 inches of Earth from the 2nd terrace. It was beautiful! Tim and Jay worked the pick-axes busting up the shale and clay while Jess and I filled wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow. Jess counted 10 or more.
Solar power system received!!! Soon our camp will have 270 watts of solar electricity available.