evan's ant village log

Ditto! Brilliant idea(s), Paul ;)

Day 94

Jesse let me use his chainsaw to trim my posts and notch my beams. In exchange, I'll be helping him out with some bark peeling for the structure he's planning to build.

I managed to get the beams notched and into place, but then the sky opened up and more rain fell in a few minutes than in all of last month combined. It was a little distressing to see all the things I would rather have stayed dry getting totally drenched, if only the rain had held off just long enough for me to properly tarp a few things, but at the same time, my gardens are surely happy about it. Supposedly, the rain will continue through the weekend, but after that I'm sure my structure and materials will dry out again before long. Meanwhile, tomorrow seems like it'll be a good day to try to build and seed some more little garden beds.

Those beams are lookin' goood.

Day 95

Got up early and did a little hugel-building before it started raining again, but they're still not quite done enough to plant seeds in just yet.

Fred, Carol-Anne, Jesse, and I celebrated the rainy morning by playing the permaculture pie party game (https://permies.com/t/39062/education/creative-card-games-Permaculture-Playing)
inside of wofati 0.7. Everybody won!

Jocelyn and Paul had everyone over for dinner down at basecamp. It was super delicious food, as always, and delightful company! Thanks Jocelyn and Paul!

Day 96

With all this rain we've been getting, I couldn't miss the opportunity to plant tons of seeds. I'm slowly but surely expanding my garden beds in Téjas, digging out paths, adding compost, and mulching like mad.

Day 97

Got a lot of work done on Siesta today. It's starting to look house-shaped. After shimmying up and down the posts several times to attach the beams and rafters, I decided to go ahead and screw together a quick ladder from some poles. It may not be the safest, but it's better than shimmying.

Even got some tarps over the roof this evening, and got my other materials covered too, so I'm ready for the rain now. And as I write this, it's a coming down.

Day 98

Making progress on Siesta. Timber screws may not be the cheapest method of fastening, and they're certainly not Proenneke-style, but they are pretty strong and fast and easy.

Did I mention that they're not cheap? I'm pretty sure I'll be spending tomorrow doing some bounty work so I can afford to buy more screws.

Day 99

I went down to basecamp this morning and we started working on the roof of the berm shed. But then by midday it was raining off and on, so we moved on to different projects.

I helped Josh build and plant a trident-shaped hugelkultur on his plot. Josh is calling his plot Antlantis, and maybe some day it will be an island. The area within Antlantis where we built the trident-shaped hugelkultur is called Neptune, or Poseidon. You can check out Josh's thread here: https://permies.com/t/48594/labs/Josh-anty-updates

Evan,

Hello. I as curious what kind of screws you are using on Siesta? I have a few buckets of random decking screws lying around. Maybe they are the kind you need?

K.

I hope this doesn't confuse anyone. These pictures are from a few months ago. I just found them and realized I never posted them to evan's thread. But it's cool to see how far he has come from these pics below and the pics in the posts a few posts above.