Day Sixteen

October 17, 2023

an exterior door frame

tired out

sorry, i couldn’t resist the pun. as far as i know, we’re done with tires!

here’s the walkaround of the structure as of lunch today. while there’s still more to do with the berm, you can see that it’s nearly to the top all the way around.

i took part in building and framing some of the door and window frames. never did that before. it’s pretty straightforward, just gotta be sure to be square and plumb. and i was shown a couple tricks on how to get that done.

they poured concrete into the three buttress forms along the back wall. i’ll include yesterday’s picture to compare with today’s.

and when i say they poured concrete, i actually mean that they formed a bucket brigade and dumped it in there one 5-gallon bucket at a time. for all three buttress forms. which brings me to an observation i’ve made before…

a lot of this build is straight up manual labor. yes, there’s skill involved with cutting lumber and building pieces that are flush, level, square and plumb. and there’s a lot of effort put into design and layout and execution of the build that we students don’t participate in, which is mainly a good thing. but when it comes to the execution of activities on-site they are tasks that just about anyone can accomplish or can contribute to the accomplishing of.

which is why i woke up this morning thinking about what i’m going to be doing around my house when i get back home. there are projects that i’ve been putting off for years that i see now are well within my reach of accomplishing. and that’s very exciting. : )