Day 6, 77 person hours so far in the construction of our joint this season (April 2009).
Noble is working on getting the stairway going up. This view is the east wall of our second floor flat. This year we're working on the east third of the second floor space of our dwelling--it's about a 15 by 15 foot space which will be the bathroom and a little space for an office. Our plan for this year is to finish this second floor room--the bathroom a small office-- and then at least get started on the third floor which is our bedroom--still trying to figure out what we'll do for a ceiling in the bedroom - vault?, groin vault? dome? 3-foot mini vaults? hmmmm?

Day 5, total person hours worked on our hand built papercrete flat -67.
Noble is having a blast putting together those arches.
I love putting in those re-used liquor bottles (there's also a couple of pains of traditional glass block put in with my home-made glass block.) SUPER!
The stairway (on the left) will soon look like a stairway.

Day 4, total person hours worked 60.
Check out those recycled glass bottles, with the sunrise they are incredible!
I call them home-made glass block. Every morning I swing over to the two bars in town and collect their empty booze bottles. Then I slice them in two with a diamond blade tile saw, clean 'em, and stick 'em together with silicone.
Tomorrow, the second arch.