Sunday, December 20, 2009

Day 144 & 145: Rock wall and moving in

On Thursday and Friday, Trevor worked on construction of a rock wall along the north edge of the entry porch. The wall will facilitate drainage and add a few more square feet to the porch area. Here is a pic of the work in progress.

On Friday the crew helped us move in marking the official end of major construction and almost daily posts. There are years worth of projects ahead, and I will post them as they happen. It has been an incredible design and build experience. It will be a most memorable first Christmas in the peace and warmth of this wonderful passive solar home. We call it "casa del sol" (house of the sun). I wish you all a joyous holiday season. Thanks for reading throughout the year!

9 comments:

Gina said...

Congratulations and Happy Holidays to you too!

Gina

Anonymous said...

Awesome Mike. Loved your blog posts through the construction. Inspired me to try something similar, when I go back to India. My friend Tycho introduced me to your blog.

Hriday.

Mike said...

Thanks Gina!

It feels great to have inspired you Hriday. Best wishes with your project.

Mike

Trevor said...

merry christmas back atchya...and happy new year

Unknown said...

Cindy, Mike, Happy holidays to you both too

Anonymous said...

Wow. Congratulations. Love the tile work at the entry and the bathroom sink. Its all awesome.

Anonymous said...

Wow again. One more thing. I kind of thought that the rock wall for practice climbing would be a bit bigger. I guess we won't have too far to fall with the little wall you've built so far.

Paul

Anonymous said...

Hi Mike,
Very impressive build. It is much more than I had expected to see.
Congratulations and Happy New Year to you and the family.
Brian Cover

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