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We had another fantastic work party! It was a mad scramble the week before as we watched the rain in the forecast go up and up and up! AC got the house all nicely tarped up and we got all the remaining bales moved into the house where they could stay safe and dry. We…

The work party was a huge success! We got probably half the remaining bales carved and placed and at least 2 folks got their first experience using a chainsaw. Y’all are amazing! Next work party is August 15 – 17, can’t wait to see you there!

Hoooo Boy that was a heck of a week! We had 46 workshop attendees, 3 instructors and myriad friends and family helping support us and it was a huge success! Everyone who came out worked so hard and was incredibly kind and considerate of both each-other and our new home. AC was in the mix…

So most of you probably know that a couple years back (ok, way back in 2019) we took a straw bale house building workshop. While there we, along with about 30 awesome folks, helped build a strawbale house in Kingston, WA. It was incredibly fun and we learned so much. It also convinced us that…

Wow, the weeks have really flown by. Its wetter and colder out but AC is still plugging away out there whenever there is enough of a break in the rain. Chris and Adam have been coming by to help when they can which has been wonderful! Especially since everything happening right now involves being MUCH…

We’ve had a fantastic string of helpers over the last couple weeks and have made a lot of progress! Just 2 weeks ago AC got the very first beam up. Then with some awesome helpers we got though a good chunk of the south wing. This was a bit grueling as we hadn’t gotten the…

The last piece of subfloor going in! It was a very well documented chunk of plywood… We also found a fun little squatter when we went to cut the last piece of plywood, they were relocated to a shady spot nearby. And now for the reality check. After the work party was over and we…

The first week of August my lovely family showed up in force for a work party weekend. It was so fun having the place swarming with helpers. We even put the kids to work! (Please note, on all these posts the fantastic photos are almost always taken by someone else!) Folks got a TON of…

Ok, This post is hilariously late in coming, but before I post all the pics of our family work party I wanted a post for all the work Adam and AC put in on the subfloor during so many hot HOT days! AC’s whole fantastic family also joined in the sweaty fun 🙂 Seeing as…

So when we first started looking at house designs we had planned to do a ‘slab on grade’ foundation. Meaning a simple slab of concrete that we set our house on top of. The frost depth isn’t super deep here so these can often work great. Plus a slab foundation means we could ‘easily’ add…