Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

New International Version (NIV)

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The House :)

Ok I forgot some of you have no idea what we are building here :) 
The totes on the floor on the right of the picture is the new floor we just finished. It goes the length of the trailer and will be kitchen, pantry and bedrooms. (in that order front to back) Only the outside walls and the hallway walls are going to be straw bale. The center where the trailer is sitting will also be house, two stories,  but we need to be able to live in the west side addition while we build the center. (and we finally figured out how that will be possible!!) Papa said last night it MIGHT be possible to move the trailer out next spring!! IF we get the west side walls up and plastered before then and a few other IF'S!! 
The yellow travelall is in front of the smaller east side addition we plastered last fall and built the fall before that. 
*No we haven't bought a new truck.. it's a neighbors who needed a ride. :) 

That burn pile up front is several weeks worth of stick pick up around the place, some plum tree branches Grandma and Grandpa F brought over and the boxes the chicks came in. E's asthma is too bad to burn it now and so we'll just keep adding to it :) 

Project Finished Floor.


Ok this is a terrible picture but this is what the front area used to be.. a big open space that was nice to store feed and hang dead things up in! :) I didn't take a before picture so I had to go digging for one and this is the best one I could find. This is in 09.

Here we are in 2012 
Papa and I hammered in the floor joists one day and then 
Papa screwed in the bridging.


We 'glued and screwed' the OSB on another day and then the kids and I puttied the cracks
 before Papa rented a sander and sanded the floor.


Primer was next, which the kids loved :). The OSB soaked in a lot more primer then we expected so this ended up being a couple evenings work as we ran out if primer and had to get more.


Then we used our muscles and moved all the stuff we've stored on the floor over the years
 onto the freshly painted part :) 


Except the new playground which Papa had to take off with the skid steer. 


Then I swept and putty-ed.. 


Now we just need to finish the last 8 feet of joists, bridging and OSB, putty the cracks, 


 sand the whole thing....


and primer it!!


Lovely isn't it? 

Now we are ready for WALLS :)