We've been harvesting green onions and leaf lettuce and arugula from our garden. We've dealt with 3 mice, hundreds of ants, 2 disgustingly large spiders, mosquitos and starlings in the soffits and waking us up at 6am.
We've been dealing with pests. B screened in the windows, so we can now open them and feel the amazing breeze that comes up the hill and right into our TS (temporary shelter).
The next thing on my list of things to do is to caulk to whole bloody TS, so that ants and other insects can't get in. It will also be a must if we plan on roughing it up there during the winter.
We still need to insulate the floor of the TS, which we will get to, but we've been so busy with wedding plans and honeymoon plans that we just haven't had the chance.
Where would we have found the time to debark and split 10 cord of cedar for a cordwood house? I am so glad we've decided to build straw bale!
Plans for the house have been put on hold because of the wedding and honeymoon. We need to get our site planned and permitted, a floor and design plan of our house stamped for approval by an engineer (haven't even really started with the design planning). We need all of that to happen by next spring, so that we can put a driveway in and a slab on grade foundation.
That's probably all we will be able to do next year. The strawbale building will happen in the spring of 2013. And finishing the interior will happen in 2014. I hope to move in with my wonderful husband in the fall of 2014.
We are really digging the Warburton's straw bale house in Orangeville, Ontario
But we'd like to put a purple steel roof on, and the exterior walls will be a beeswax colour. Very similiar if not the same as the exterior walls in this photo.
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