Monday, July 18, 2011

Is this living or character building????

Bedroom & lounge / toilet
In the early days of living here (in the shed, cabin and caravan) was like camping and after a few weeks I wanted to go home.  My best purchase this year - an electric blanket. One morning getting up to venture off to work, at 6am I couldn’t have a shower for the pipes had frozen. I produced a full bucket of ice to Mr I want to build a straw bale house whilst he was in a snug bed.  Amazingly the whole bucket was frozen – never seen anything like it. Oh yeh now I have showers in the evenings. It seems the coldest and wettest winter for years.

Cooking on the other hand has been a challenge. We no longer have to unplug the fridge to put the kettle on. Cooking in a small toaster and a 2 hot plate element (one at a time) took its toll and not to mention stretching the imagination every meal. “Saved” - June sales. A new fridge, gas/electric stove and a few other things for the new house. The day before I went shopping Mr I want to build a straw bale house activated the joint credit card. I am now cooking. Yippee.

The cabin is the warmest part of our little compound, unfortunately there is nothing worth watching on the TV so the games on the ipad are in demand.


Laundry and the $15 dishwasher

This is something that we will look back and mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

House building update


Roof tiles
We had roof tiles delivered. Yep
you may think progress, alas tipped into two spots to be crushed(by our car) to extend the driveway so trucks can deliver house materials.




It's too wet to spread them using the tractor so a shovel is used or just throwing them is the go.

I said it was wet..........................

Mud bricks – The frames are made and ready to use.

House plans
We have 3 copies of the house plans with a 6.2 energy star rating, a slab engineer okay and I want to build a house has the documentation stating he is now able to be an owner builder. Does this mean planner, building project manager or saving money and experimenting with handy skills.

The future home - House warming / come 5oth birthday
Mr I want to build a straw bale house will either pay for 50 people to lunch with me on my half century birthday or the house warming party will be the end of November to coincide with my 50th
I win both ways.