“We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars”
– Ivan Turgenev
“Another one [course] bites the dust.”
– Queen
On a rare sunny day we knocked out the 17th course. Only one more to go!
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Those tendrils are poly strapping. They’ll secure the bond beam to the last two courses serving to tie the walls together. |
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I filled the forms on the lintel only about 2/3 full so the next course will be even. |
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Extricating a form with the machete. |
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I worked solo for most of the day so I found it worked pretty efficiently to transfer all the cob mixture from the wheel barrow into the window before putting it into the forms. |
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The last row of the bottle window. |
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Covering up for the inevitable rain storm |
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Wow so close ti finishing the courses. Excellent news.