Earthbag House 7

Slide show of further progress on the house. I spent the summer taking care of solar, plumbing, and electrical installations as well as interior concrete work before starting on the west wall of the structure. Not as visually obvious as building walls, but it was a lot of work regardless. Sorry if the music is not your style- use your mute/volume button if it's not. I will warn you that there is an "F" bomb in the vocal track, but I don't believe in censorship, and I'm a big fan of Mike Landau, so that's what it is... enjoy

Category:

Education

Tags:

• earthbag
• adobe
• natural building
• rammed earth
• earthship
• off grid

[lawnsausages]

Bubba, I haven't said anything before now but I've been waiting for months... When? Bet you like SpyroGyra too.

[doctordirtbag]

@lawnsausages Who's Bubba? And, what's the meaning of your post?

[lawnsausages]

@doctordirtbag Guess it was a bit cryptic, sorry. Bubba is just a colloquialism for brother. If you like Mike Landau I know you have at least one SpyroGyra recording. As you can tell from the posts and views, thousands of us, (the people whose eye's wouldn't glaze over) are dying to see what's going on with the build. I'm hoping to see you plumb it, wire it, water it etc. Any estimate on your next posting date? And again sorry for the 1st post. 

[doctordirtbag]

@lawnsausages I was looking through the comments for a poster named "bubba", and was confused! I appreciate everyone's patience waiting for an update. I have enough for another vid, but cold weather is keeping me from finishing the next "chapter". I barely eeked in the bond beam on the newest section of the house, then had to stop short of putting on a base coat of plaster due to the weather. When I get this wall covered, I'll post the vid. As for the SpyroGyra thing...

[doctordirtbag]

@doctordirtbag I wasn't sure where you're coming from. I took a look at your channel, and would venture to say that we have more in common as far as taste than not. So, with that in mind, I'll try to be diplomatic. You seem like a nice person. I've been a musician all of my life. Played professionally since I was 11, am now 53. Taught music for 23 yrs to support my music habit. If I were a lover of fine cheeses, would you assume that I have a brick of velveeta in my refrigerator?

[lawnsausages]

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☑ It was the 70's, I was stoned.

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I'll be 53 in April. Played clarinet, (poorly). Was part of the Blue Devils D&BC in 76, watch this if you get a chance: Legend Of The One Eyed Sailor Blue Devils 1976.mp4 That's me on cymbals lol.

[doctordirtbag]

@lawnsausages Wow, synchronicity and the cheese factor. How 'bout that! That's really cool that you were in the Blue Devils. One of my favorite DCI bands. Watched the vid. So, that's you in the foreground on the cymbals? WooHoo!

Seeing/hearing one of these bands live is almost a religious experience. So much power and discipline. One of my main tools for teaching marching band was DCI footage. Brings back memories/nightmares! : )

[lawnsausages]

@doctordirtbag Closest to the camera, wish I could still do that back bend. I was the drum major at my high school, (I marched better than I played) one of our drummers was a BD. During summer break he calls me, says one of the guys broke a leg in a car accident, I'm picking you up tonight, you have 10 days to learn a 13 min. show cause you're coming with us. HUH? 128 kids half of them girls all seething with vital hormonal secretions stuffed into 3 buses for 3 months... I had to go. We won DCI.