by Suzann Thompson | Jul 7, 2011 | Earthen House, Life, Retro Blog Post
Around Christmas 2010, my brother Eric and family visited. We put them to work on the house right away! No, they wanted to work on the house. Really. Alanna, Ella, and Marshall worked hard in the mud department. They checked our slurry by emerging their arms up to the...
by Suzann Thompson | Jul 2, 2011 | Earthen House, Life, Retro Blog Post
This was the northwest corner of our earthen house before we started to work on the chilly Thanksgiving weekend of 2010. Our goal was to build up the walls between window openings on the north side of the house. The short wall spans between windows were just the right...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 9, 2010 | Earthen House, Retro Blog Post
September and our northwest wall started about the same time. See the tab that sticks away from the wall, behind the small pallet of bricks? It is one side of a divider-wall that will join its larger counterpart over an arch later on. My brothers Eric and Van and...
