New
Straw Bale House
At Solar Haven

- how we built
it -
Trench and rebarring for the footer.

Poured footer, two feet wide.

Completed double stem walls. The space in between
the walls and all cells in the blocks still must be filled with concrete.
("Ghost Cat" has been called in to inspect.)
Backhoe is filling in between the finished foundation walls to build up a floor.

Compacting the fill dirt with a gasoline powered
tamper,
"a machine made in hell"'
says Mindy
(this is an exact quote)

Raising the door "bucks" onto the foundation.
O.K. - here we go!