Nine's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

Jen Tuuli wrote:#85

Worked on the design for the Cooper Cabin bathroom this morning. It's coming along. Can probably start rounding up materials to build the wall + toilet/sink cabinets next week. I think I'll be helping out with the Dock lighting in the Library first as well as the lighting in the classroom.

If ya'll see anything crazy with the design, lemme know. The missing walls already exist, which is why I don't have them in the design. The bathroom door opens out. The toilet enclosure (the big box) opens toward you when you're coming into the room. I think I'm gonna build removable steps to get up to the toilet seat. Seems like the easiest way to handle so many constraints in here. The little box is the sink cabinet, which will have a foot pump and 5 gallon bucket for water. There's an existing gray water pipe in the floor under it to let that go outside. The pipe under the window in the toilet enclosure is for the urine diverter; the pipe exists already.

I'm really excited about you guys having a potty there. Nice! I'm assuming this is going on the left side of building, in the left "wing"? It's kind of a bummer that you have to go outside to access it, but it's still much nicer than having to walk a long way to get to a potty!

When I was out there for the PDC it was the first time I'd seen many of the plants living there.  Your picture of the sunflower (balsamroot) brings back happy memories.

Nicole Alderman wrote:
I'm really excited about you guys having a potty there. Nice! I'm assuming this is going on the left side of building, in the left "wing"? It's kind of a bummer that you have to go outside to access it, but it's still much nicer than having to walk a long way to get to a potty!

This will be built inside the cabin so people won't have to go outside. 😊

#88

Got a haircut today. Played Skyrim for a few hours. Sometimes you just need your brain to get small achievements. Met our new boot, Magdalene.

Here are some random pictures.

#89

Gardening this morning. Worked on getting more equipment/jars prepped for mushroom growing. Helped Chris for a few minutes while he worked on fixing the other leaky hydrant. Sawed off a little grass. Gazed upon my patch full of salsify and realized that nature (or past gardeners) is already working the soil like I wanted to do. Keep up the good work, nature.

After lunch, sat with Dez and worked on the design for the Solarium in SketchUp. If you want to see what that's looking like these days, check it out. After that, ate delicious dinner with our fam and went to our Observation for Design class with Alan. I'm really enjoying it, but I wish we had more time to sit and mull on some of the topics. Last week's chapter with five sections could be five weeks worth of observations. I'm sure I'll sit and read through the book at a slower pace once I'm living on the Lab so I can work through my own plot and see/hear/taste/smell/47 other senses all the things.