Weekend Project. Day 5!

Started out with SNOW!! I walked into the kitchen and did a serious double take when I looked out the windows! Papa thought that was VERY FUNNY!  It melted by noon and we're all grateful! It's too early to have snow!

The side wall.. in progress..it got taken up and down a bit while we figured things out. Big Mr T surprised us and showed up to help that afternoon! He and Papa put the back door in and made a box for the dryer vent. They also had to 'fix' the front wall so the door would open and close. This next picture is of the front wall.. they took it apart and re built it at least 6 times.

I didn't take pictures that night when we were done. Sorry I forgot. But the back door was in and their was a couple of half walls done. They even got Big Mr. T's vans lights working :) 

Weekend Project. Day 4!

Papa had 5 days off in a row because of a work training session and we are taking the time to build build build!! The 1st day off was Sunday and we took it off and had a Party :) This pictures are from the middle about of day 4. Papa started at the door into the trailer and worked his way around the whole thing placing 4X4's 17 inches apart as a base for the straw bale walls and putting doors in. Doors take forever! In the top picture you can see the two front doors just about done and the 4X4's in the corner.. the 2 bales we were using for measuring depth. I put wood filler on the cracks in the floor when ever Papa didn't need help! 

This is as far as we got on the back door that night. We ran out of straight 2 by 12's and it just was not working so we quit for the night. But the 4X4's all got cut and only 2 needed to be glued, but the door had to go in first so we had to leave them till day 5. You can see the new door leaning up against the pole in the background. 

Here is the front view! There is a 3 foot (about) deck on the front. 

Here is the front wall and part of the side wall. The black bag is insulation from the old addition that we are using for between the 4x4's under the bales. You can see my dryer plug in all done there in the wall. All in all it was a good day. The doors TOOK FOREVER!!! They ended up working on them the next day as well as the bales squished them and made them really hard to open and close.. so they had to support the doors better.