Moved in at last!
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- Queen Anne’s Lace bringing life down into our clay ”soil“
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- July 2018
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- July 2018
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- April 2017
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- Welcome!
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- The cutest little window in the castle wall
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- April 2017
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- Trombe walls soaking up the sun
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- April 2017
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- April 2017
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- April 2017
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- April 2017
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- One of the flock, venturing close to the house
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- Our first Christmas
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- Tabletop from diseased cherry tree in hedgerow by driveway.
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- 120-year-old French farm table adds usefulness and ambience
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- Cool view through 4 layers.
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- Farm office, ready for business!
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- Long hallway, looking west.
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- Master bath
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- Master bath; antique tub with original finish
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- Master bedroom. Nice view!
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- Marti’s study
Construction
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- October 2016
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- Digger Dan (Morris) and crew hard at work
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- More amazing landscaping
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- Building the colonnade
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- Rainwater cisterns being buried
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- Stairway to lower level
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- master bath counter
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- Kitchen counters installed
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- Living room floor
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- Kitchen floor
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- Master bathroom
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- Lower level bedroom entry
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- Tower entry
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- Courtyard
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- Hawthorn leafing out
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- Courtyard
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- Who’s the intruder?
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- Looking to the northeast
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- Getting ready for stucco and Trombe wall finishing
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- Looking to the northeast
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- Looking to the west
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- Looking to the east/southeast
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- The two towers
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- Looking toward the southeast
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- Looking down the long hall toward the master bedroom
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- Long hall along north side of house, looking toward powder room
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- Living room ready for tile floor
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- Main living area tile floor prep
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- Looking from farm office toward dining area
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- Dining area
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- Lower level shower
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- Laundry room cabinets
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- Stucco going on tower
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- Lower level door
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- Tile floor prep
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- Tiling the lower level floor
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- Southwest lower level bedroom tile
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- Main living area ceiling, step 1: Inner layer of siding from an old schoolhouse in Ohio.
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- Main living area ceiling, step 2: Cut to length.
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- Main living area ceiling, step 3: tongue and groove each board.
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- Main living area ceiling, step 4: Clean up each board.
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- Main living area ceiling, step 5: Nail in place.
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- Main living area ceiling
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- barn ceiling insulation
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- Window trim: poplar over Aerogel insulation
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- Tower view! Looking to the southeast.
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- Tower view to the west
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- Tower view, to the north
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- Tower view to the north
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- Tower view to the northwest
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- East wall of living room, looking into farm office
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- Rumford fireplace
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- Roof monitors in farm office
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- Roof monitors in farm office
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- March 12 exterior
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- March 12 exterior
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- March 12 exterior
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- View from the southwest, March 4
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- Brick on the northeast corner.
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- Happy and happy-go-lucky email reporting results of blower door test.
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- ANOTHER layer of insulation in window frames. No wonder the blower door test result was so good!
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- Awesome base for powder room sink. Copper bowl will be sunk into the top (on left), with pipes in the cut-out down the back. Neighbor needed to take down a big sycamore tree before it fell down. We’re the lucky beneficiaries.
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- Tub refinishing done
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- February sun and snow
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- February snow
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- February snow; late afternoon sun
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- February snow
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- February snow
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- Covering radiant floor tubes with gypcrete
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- Radiant heat tubes embedded in gypcrete
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- Sunny interior
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- Afternoon sun
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- Bricks going up
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- Bricks on the north wall
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- Bricks and sills on south wall
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- Bricks and sills, southeast corner
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- Tom the bricklayer
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- Getting the brickwork exactly right
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- Rumford fireplace: efficient, clean, the heart of the home
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- Teaching the next round of workmen about the Living Building Challenge.
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- lower level door
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- farm office French doors
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- February 2016
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- February 2016
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- February 2016
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- February 2016
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- January 2016
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- January 2016
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- Building the stairs
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- Building the stairs.
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- Building the tower
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- Building the tower
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- Building the tower
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- Building the tower
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- Building the tower
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- Building the tower roof
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- Putting the tower roof on
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- Putting the roof on
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- Putting the roof on
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- Putting the roof on
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- Putting the roof on
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- unloading bricks
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- bricks arriving
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- fireplace installation
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- fireplace arrival
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- septic field work
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- Main floor interior
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- Light monitors; roof ice shield applied
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- first layer of roof SIPS in place
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- SIP installation
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- SIP installation
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- Lifting a SIP into place
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- fireplace framing
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- Dave Stark explaining rainwater harvesting at Tour 3
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- Wayne Appleyard explaining Trombe walls during Tour 3
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- Wayne Appleyard explaining Trombe walls during Tour 3
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- Trombe wall finished
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- Trombe walls poured
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- Trombe walls
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- Trombe wall framework
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- Tour 3
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- Tour 3
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- solar power inverters
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- house framing, light monitors
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- house framing, light monitors
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- house framing
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- ridge beam
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- house framing, master bath window
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- house framing, west wall
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- house framing, west wall
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- house framing
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- house framing
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- house framing, west wall
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- conduits between barn and house
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- air duct in lower level
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- first light
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- HERS rating
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- courtyard grading
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- lower level south wall
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- lower level south wall
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- lower level walls
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- lower level west wall
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- lower level bedroom window
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- lower level bedroom windows
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- east wall, house
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- house deck
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- house deck
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- house deck
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- house deck
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- house deck
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- house deck
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- house deck
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- house deck
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- house deck detail
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- view from master bath
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- east wall, house
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- east wall, house
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- tour 2
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- Wall detail: Everything here needed vetting!
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- Barn, Sept 6
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- Barn progress; Aug 12
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- Barn; Aug 12
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- Barn southwest corner; Aug 12
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- Barn workroom; Aug 12
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- House foundation walls form work; Aug 12
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- Forms for house foundation walls Aug 11
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- Stone samples for exterior and interior north wall, ready for mock-up; Aug 11
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- Forms for house foundation walls, Aug 11
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- Garage framing continues, Aug 11
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- Ready for the next step; Aug 11
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- GREEN eco-friendly construction adhesive; Aug 11
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- Footings and foundation wall work (house)
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- Footings and foundation wall work (house)
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- Garage well on its way!
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- A room with a view (garage workshop, overlooking barnyard)
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- Garage west end and barnyard.
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- Garage
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- Assembling the first wall (garage)
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- Foundation wall forms (house)
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- Looking from southwest to northeast: House foundation wall forms in foreground; garage in background
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- Garage framing
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- Garage floor trusses
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- Aug 8, looking from south to north
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- Aug 8, looking from southeast to northwest
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- Aug 8, looking from northeast to southwest
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- rainwater harvesting tanks arriving from Minnesota
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- rainwater harvesting tanks
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- house footings
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- house footings
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- house footings
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- finishing barn foundation
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- finishing barn foundation
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- finishing barn foundation
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- finishing barn foundation
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- finishing barn foundation
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Removing forms
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- Basement foundation begun
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- Foundation crew: Thumbs up, all in, on the Living Building Challenge!
May 2015
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- On site meeting a week before the big moment!
Flora and Fauna
Spring 2014
Summer 2013
Meetings
Final push on construction drawings
Michael with Joe Lsturek and Kohta Ueno from Building Science Corporation.
Photo taken at the 2014 Building Science Summer Camp Symposium. Kohta was our right hand man on our project for building science matters. Joe is the president and founder of BSC, the Mount Olympus of building science in the USA, Canada, and arguably the world. It was an honor and thrill to have these folks helping us on our project.
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