Above ground like a BOSS!

Solo building isn't as fun as building with friends, or even strangers, but with the right music it's doable. This week the right music was Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, Misfits and 311.

I only built Tuesday-Friday this week but managed to get tto the row above ground level. That row seals the liner into the structure. So many butterflies and crickets but I couldn't shoot them all!

Making progress 

Sneaky lil guy follows me all day long 

crust

Familiar Things

Wise gregarious hopper

Ground level

Phat rows

Angelic music playing

Status Update

Tired and Hungry

Why?

I guess it is satisfying when it's all done.... 

End of the bags!

Friday EOD

Badassical!

So niice

Nice work

Keyhole dome?

Life's a peach 

I just like this shot

I am feeling the momentum.

Being alone all day long in the desert makes you a bit loopy!

Thanks for visiting!!!!  

Doorways define domes

When you get the door frame in it becomes real. You can see where the dome will be and the angles start to really appear.

I got a door, made a frame, dug supports and cemented them in. Screwed the supports to the frame, and put in the first row that butts up against the frame.

Proximity

It gets in your blood and then you become the desert

Storm shelter door goes down to a doomsday bunker 

Framing the door 

Perfect fit

It was pinker than this

It will all work out in the end

These boards on the rows will be sandwiched between the rows and the frame will be screwed securely to them. 

The plank is nailed into the bag, the 2x4 is screwed into the plank, they will both be sandwiched between rows of sandbag and barbed wire.

Joy of SuperAdobe Season 2 Episode 8

Row 3 lil dome

We are out of the foundation and over the pond liner but the exterior pond liner will fold over the row flush with exterior ground level. That will be in about 3 or 4 rows.

Foundation rows complete on Baño Dome

I am so tired!

Awesome sunset, Thanks God Ross! 

Coyote Ugly 

THE Joshua Tree 

It was a good spot for a drink.

Lil Stinker

2nd row, foundation row, completed, less jelly roll!

Baño Dome Foundation Row

It has been a few weeks and I promised daily reports, but there was not much to see. I poured the floors in a few sections in the main dome, and I left a small cavity with rocks to put in a fun resin feature. Imagine a little lake in the middle of the floor. I still have not ordered the resin but have begun work on the bathroom dome. It is set down several feet, so digging the whole and getting it leveled by hand took a few days. I will be back t it, most days in 100 degree heat down in the hole.

I promise to do better and upload the days progress now that it should be basically a row a day.

Easier to pour the floor in sections, using corrugated plastic strips

Who knew masonry was so complicated  ;)

Epic creature sadly named stink bug. 

If there is a way not to splatter, I have not found it.

Nice place for a little pond. 

A clear resin will go in there with a few sea creatures.

Here we go again!

Sexy footprint

At this point I could just build a pond!

The desert changes you...

Back at it!

First batch of bag Earth from the mixer was jelly roll, too wet! Its not a big deal but not desirable. It took longer to be ready to tamp and puddled because of the liner. 

One ring to rule them all!

This guy...

A bit of perspective on there the bathroom dome is in relation to Solstice dome.

Superbloom goes from yellow to purple in Landers.

I will be posting every work day from now on. Stay tuned.