Thursday, February 12, 2009

Building the deck




Landscaping the landfill


The landfill below the barn that was covered with soil and straw. Today I planted natives -- pine, cedar, mock orange (a shrub). Hopefully they'll shore up the hillside. They go well with the many riparian plantings just below that were done last week after blackberry vines around Quartz Creek were slashed and burned.

Framing the Solarium




Framing the Solarium



Framing the Solarium





If you click on this last one you can see the snow falling....

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Concrete forms

Laying the forms for the solarium. It turns out that these forms were off, and after the carpenters framed the walls, they had to re-pour the concrete. You can see we've been getting a little snow.

Concrete forms

Above and below: laying concrete forms for the second-floor deck of the common building.

Above and below: laying the concrete for the wood stove in the common building dining room, which hopefully will heat most of the building.