Interior Shminterior - Plaster begins inside the dome!

After an awesome 4th of July weekend, I'm glad to report that some plaster work was accomplished on the inside of the dome. After some recommendations from the www.calearth.org Alumni, we decided to use plastic cement in a 20% mixture with the Earth (sand) we have on site. This mix was very sticky and a bit more forgiving. This translated to more plaster ON the wall instead of the floor (still the ground). The floor is still raw sand and that means ants WILL come out of the ground even inside and bite your (my) knee. :(  ...  :o So the goal is to plaster the inside walls as quick as we can so we can pour the floor. Then we can get to the real fun... This whole dome was built as an excuse to decorate something like Luke Skywalker's Tatooine farmhouse. But actually it WILL have lightsaber LED wall lights. It will also have a marine themed floor to match the "stained glass" marble window above the front door.

Sticky mix 

Plastic Cement 20% 

We've done 1/3 of almost 1/2 of the first layer. Well, at least in between the rows.

This scaffold is what makes time trav- er, exterior plaster possible. 1.21 jiggywatts?

Stripe likes to chill upside down. I hope to keep him safe from my plaster disaster. 

After a bit of plastering, we took off to enjoy our National treasure, Joshua Tree National Monument.

This is a landscape unlike anything else on Earth. 

This spot is 28 miles from the Solstice (turtle) (volcano) Dome.