We had work schedules this week that wouldn't let both of us off on Friday afternoon, so Jeff opted to run for the border on Friday right after work with the van. I would follow super-early Saturday morning with the Subi. The prospect of 26 hours apart with no way to communicate was daunting. If anything went wrong for either of us there would be no way of knowing what, where, etc. It was also unusual for us as we've only been apart for something like 20 nights over the course of almost 17 years together.
(For the peanut gallery: no, we're not codependent, we just really enjoy being together - that's why we got married. If you're with someone you don't want to be around, you're {BOTH} doing it wrong.)
By taking two cars we were able to get two full loads of junk up north - like 100+ beer and 50+ wine bottles for building, shredded paper, old ceiling tiles and cement for the walls. (We have a craft room again! The wife promptly set up her sewing table in there.)
Anyway, Husband got up Friday evening without a hitch, and early enough to get some stuff done, like set up our water tank! Now we have means of storing water on site and not having to make as many runs to town. We can bring water in with us and store it for more long-term usage.
And speaking of water - there appears to have been a flood some time in the last few days. The southern third of the courtyard was soaked and there were water marks on the walls 4"-5" off the ground.
As you can see from the above pic, we also got more rows added to the interior bottle wall and we sealed the roof of the hexebo. (The wife's Pocahontas braids + roof sealant = bad. Just saying.) We've figured out that by the time the inner wall is done we'll have placed approx. 2000 bottles and cans just for that section. The outer berm-wall comes in at around 2000 bottles as well, even though it's longer; we used bigger bottles and started with a bit more elevation on that part. Still not bad, and really we're not even trying all that hard with our collecting. If we grabbed every bottle and can we saw we'd never get anywhere. It would be a full time job just collecting and storing them. We're not "that guy" yet.
After a long night of solitude in the desert, Jeff got up early and got right back to work while waiting for the Wife to show up.
The Wife's trip was a bit more eventful and a bit more of a concern. Apparently the Subaru doesn't like Wyoming anymore; it spent a great deal of the trip from Laramie to Rawtown with the thermostat needle jumping up to the red zone. At Zero Dark and Early it shouldn't have been overheating... The same happened on the way home, but only between Rawlins and Laramie - yet again. The drive to Ft. Collins was fine, and again I-25 to Denver was no problem. Must be Sunspots or Ghosts or Government conspiracy in that part of Wyoming that only affects Subaru Outbacks owned by Erkharts. I'm not saying it's Aliens, but it's probably Aliens.
Anyway, back to work:
We also brought up our Hexagon molds for bricks so now we can manufacture a bunch every trip and just leave them up there to cure. Got our garage cleared out of a lot of stuff this trip! Maybe we can actually park in there this winter??
Husband also got to work on making the arch pretty and more structurally sound:
Also saw this Sunday morning in the neighborhood in Rawlins:
Apparently, the Buck stops here.
(The wife was thinking that it was a heck of a realistic lawn ornament!)
Here's a better-ish picture:
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