As a test project for working with earthen materials I’m planning to build a small tool/storage shed. For the wall […]

The plan is to put in a rubble trench foundation. A rubble trench is a trench filled with rubble or […]

The Mattock We spend part of the Labor day weekend leveling and widening the foundation trench. I bought a Mattock […]

I had planned on starting installation of the french drain and rubble trench foundation today but unfortunately/fortunately it rained earlier […]

The last thing Jean told me before she left for the UK was that I had better finish the shed […]

Finished up the installation of the french drain and went through two and a half cubic yards of gravel today. […]

The last load of gravel for a grand total of five cubic yards. There are 27 cubic feet in a […]

Dad finished up the forms earlier in the week so we were able pour the footer today. A footer is […]

Laying out the forms for the first course. We have five 12″X12″ forms and one 18″X12″ form. Forms are all […]

The Buda area got somewhere in the vicinity of 20 inches of rain in the past two weeks. Buda gets […]

If you can’t image molten lava cake, it looks like this While it was overcast and kind of gloomy most […]

While the rain this weekend kept me from getting in any construction, it do give me the opportunity to revisit […]

Sunny days (or weekends rather) have returned at last. I knocked out the rest of the third course and made […]

I had a few days off the week of Christmas so I was able to knock out the fourth and […]

My Mom forbade me from doing any work on the shed Christmas day. She didn’t say anything about Boxing day […]

Friday morning I had to pick up our car from the shop. Jean offered to give me a ride but […]

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve received lots of parental and spousal support to push the wall past the […]

Checked off the 10th course yesterday and made a good start on the llth today. That brings the wall height […]

So, I finally tricked someone who doesn’t have the same last name as me into coming out and working on […]

When I was child, it seemed that whenever we had relatives visiting we would inevitably have some project going on. […]

After two months of skiving off we’re finally getting back to it. My friend Jeremy and his indentured servants joined […]

Over the past month central Texas has been experiencing some extreme rain events which causes problems for us on several […]

“We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars”  – Ivan Turgenev “Another one [course] bites the dust.” – […]

Summer has definitely arrived. It got up to a balmy 96 degrees today with a heat index over 100 degrees. […]

Here’s a design I came up with this weekend for a monoslope roof. Granted, it’s not terribly original nor natural […]

Sorry for the reporting delay. I started getting these on my computer: The dreaded BSOD And it’s taken me a […]

We collected several interesting larger bottles whilst gathering beer bottles for the bottle wall on the south wall. I decided […]

This weekend we attached the rafters, fascia boards and installed the decking. It’s beginning to look very roof like. Cutting […]

Give a cob house a good pair of boots and a good hat and she’ll last forever. – Old English […]

Apart from finishing securing the metal panels I took a breather from the shed this weekend. At the end of […]

This thresholds needs some TLC After the push to get the roof on, I took a couple of weeks off […]

So I managed to cajole my bride into spending her Labor day working on the shed. We got a lot […]

We had a relatively cool August which gave me false hope that September would be more fallish rather than summerish. […]

Wall plastered a week before Work goes on in the plastering department. Sifting out the bigger lumps makes a huge […]

Shredded Paper The exterior plaster work is drawing to a close. Well, for now at least. We’ll see how it […]

In case your wondering I have not finished/given up on the shed. It’s been a bit cold and rainy, weather […]

I haven’t been slacking off the past few weeks. It’s just I haven’t had the most interesting pictures to post. […]

While I have quite a list of future extensions to the T-Brick shed (including but not limited to, rain water […]

I finished the poured adobe portion of the floor today. The section we did last week was still too wet […]

After the floor dried completely I applied a thin (1/4″ – 1/2″) layer of a sand/clay mix (approximately 80/20 ratio) […]

Yes, a very exciting moment the shed’s life. We have shelves now.