Sunday, February 21, 2016

Milestones abound!

Dork!
The intersection of the two domes and the lanced arch doorway looks stellar from above, too bad this is getting covered with more bag.

What a day! You'll see in all the pictures that today was quite the productive day. But you can't see that it's like 40 mph winds and I'm standing on soft rows of bag and barbed wire 12 feet up over a doorway supported only by rebar and planks, while wrestling a 300 lb anaconda. I had help though, Jon gets to hear me cuss up a storm when I get caught on the barbed wire or jam my finger and exclaim unintelligible tongues when I lose my balance from the weight from the sudden shift of an earth filled bucket or the wind catching the bag like a sail.



The boards that will bridge the doorway. 

First section of bag over the doorway with rebar jammed in the bag too!





Even Jon is getting excited about the door fitting and prospects of completion!



Superadobe structures are 100% climbable!


You can see the gap we have to close with our leaning arch doorway, something I am very excited about.


300 lb Anaconda balancing on a toothpick.

From this angle it looks like we know what we're doing!
Don't let that fluffy, feathery foreground flora fool ya, ffs, it's got FANGS!

Prego beats Ragu! Pasta sauce jar windows... just you wait, you will see soon enough.

Focusing on delivering a bucket of stabilized Earth and NOT looking psycho.

Well, focused on the Stabilized Earth bucket, at least! ;)

Full moon, sunset, joshua trees, sigh.

Running the second row of bag over the doorway. Wedging the pasta jars in between the rows. Realize that there are 2 jars taped mouth to mouth for every window.
Sunset progress photo

Art

The full moon shining through the arched window of the doorway.



Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight...




Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight, And dance by de light of de moon.