End of season...

As the weather cools we're winding down for the Winter.  Each trip we've been taking as much stuff up as the van will carry; partially to get stuff out of the house, but also to get stuff staged up North so we can jump right in next Spring.

 

Any time the roof leaks at work, the accoustic ceiling tiles have to get changed out, and rather than throwing them away, we keep them and soak them and grind 'em up to add to our "crete" mix.  Here's the stack we brought up this time.  There's still more at work .  We're bringing them up next trip.

 

 

 

We left at 3:00am Saturday morning and hauled ass for the border, got up there around 8:00am and got right to work. This time the weather was cool enough that we managed to get a lot done in a short amout of time.  Got the arch done:

 

 

 

And we started to wall up the inside of the bottle wall with Hexagons. 

 

 

 

And we managed to plaster over the earthbags before we do the same thing on that wall: 

 

 That's A LOT of plaster!

(Our hands, arms and shoulders were *sore* the next day!)

 

We also took up another couple of hundred bottles, giving us another row on the interior wall:

 

 

We got so much done in such a short amout of time that when we were headed into town to get dinner we decided just to head all the way home.  It was 6:45 PM.  We were both still awake despite a hard day's work with a really early start, so we just said "To hell with it!" and got back on the road.

 

We made it home at Midnight, totally exhausted but satisfied with what we had accomplished.  Our next few trips will probably be "drop and go", but if we can get stuff done, we'll try to take pics.  We've got a bunch of stuff planned for next year, and now that we've managed to pick up some steam it will be interesting to see how much we can do when building season starts again!