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Knock, knock....
You never know who will visit! The peacocks thought they might like to come in on a beautiful autumn day.
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Uploaded on Jan 11, 2010
Peaceful Moments
Our peahen, Aurora, is a good mama with her two baby peas. Native grass and wildflower restoration...
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Uploaded on Jan 11, 2010
A New Room
In 2008, we added this room by opening the roof over one of the eight "pies" of...
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Uploaded on Jan 11, 2010
Finishing Wall Cap
Rex is finishing the wall cap. The ceiling is ready to be textured/painted. It looked like a giant...
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Uploaded on Jan 11, 2010
Protect Those Walls!
Since a little time lapsed between building the walls and getting the roof on, we had to use plastic as our contingency plan.
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Uploaded on Jan 11, 2010
Off-Grid!
Our first PV solar panels in 1998, these 64 watt Unisolar beauties took care of our lights, fans,...
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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2010
The Joy of Mixing Mud
Sometimes we had many hands, sometimes it was just us. We started out mixing mud for the walls in...
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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2010
the Silver Seed
Octagon straw bale house. The pitched roof allows for the snow to shed easily. ...
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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2010
Tools of the Trade
These are the tools we used for building our straw house. It was low-tech, and a very indigenous,...
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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2010
Missouri Solar Sky
Summer Shading
Summer shading on the south helps keep this passive solar house cool. After the leaves have fallen,...
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Uploaded on Jan 1, 2010
Bird's Nest Loft
Spiral stairs save space, and the little loft gave us additional play space. We had no interior...
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Uploaded on Jan 1, 2010
Crazy Octagon Ceiling
The ceiling is tricky on this octagon-shaped straw bale house! We used drywall, because we didn't want to use any more wood than we had to.
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Uploaded on Jan 1, 2010
Stucco, 2nd Coat
The second coat of cement stucco contained a greater amount of sand. There is still another coat to...
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Uploaded on Jan 1, 2010
Southeast Wall
This was the summer of 2004. The stucco is in transition with part being the first scratch coat,...
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Uploaded on Jan 1, 2010
