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The straw bale wall raising weekend was an unqualified success. All the bales, except for the last row, were in place at the end of the weekend. Our bedroom wall was one exception with the determined Andy smacking in the last row on Saturday afternoon (video to come). Perry and Dave were also determined in getting the 'return wall' finished on Sunday and left their mark.
Jan (Perry's partner) and Gary (a most determined and skilful handyman) and his wife, Joy worked with me on the kitchen and pantry walls. Thanks also to Tim and his lovely wife, Kate who are hopefully getting their straw bale house happening soon. Thanks to George, Andy, Yucca and Marie and friend who came on Saturday. On Sunday I'd like to thank Pascal and Pascal for their help and their discussion on solar cookers which they have imported for sale. Anyone interested in buying one see http://pgoux.free.fr/ParabolicSolarCooker.htm
Talking about cooking, the workers could not have had the energy to continue if it were not for the cooking of my friends Lindel and Col. Also in this area thanks to Alex, Nicholas and Melinda for being go-fors. Great work guys!
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Thank you also to our building team, Nick , Roger and Andrew who gave up
their weekend to impart their valuable knowledge of strawbale building and supervise the weekend. Mark will embed some videos of the weekend in future posts. For those that are impatient check out:
http://www.metacafe.com/channels/msb17/
If I have left anyone out my sincerest apologies and please let me know so I can include you in the next post. Rosalba
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