Vision | 
09 23rd, 2010| 
We have our roof on, it is so so amazing to know that all the hard work that went into the walls is now protected from the rain, we can breath a sigh of relief! We celebrated last night with popcorn balls Sierra made us! We have our “Metro Brown” metal Roof up now, it is a seamless roof and we have no penetrations at all so should not have any issues at all with leaking. We have even asked the district to let us vent our plumbing through our south wall fascia to prevent cutting a hole in the roof, they have Ok’ed it which is great! We have our Cedar fascia boards up now too, they came from reclaimed old growth cedar, they had a previous life on a bridge, beautiful wood!
Our fasci and roof went up in ONE day with Curtis, Ben, Adam and his friend Guy working on it.. We are once again super happy that we went with a simple roof design that has help keep the labor time and cost down! And we love the funky look of the shed roof with our 3 foot overhangs!
We had a small issue with the roof, when we ordered it we gave them the exact dimensions we needed and we STILL came up 3 inches short at the end so what we have done is ordered a 5 inch flashing for that side instead.
We are so so happy with the amount of progress we have made on our place since we broke ground end of April! So here are some pics of roof going up!
We had some cobbing to do between our concrete bond beam and our roof.. This time we were cobbing around the 2×6 framed wall that was centered on the bond beam..We had a crew here cobbing for four days and got it ALMOST all done! We still have a day or two left to finish it all up! Here are some pictures..
“When we adults think of children, there is a simple truth which we ignore: childhood is not preparation for life, childhood is life. A child isn’t getting ready to live – a child is living. The child is constantly confronted with the nagging question, “What are you going to be?” Courageous would be the youngster who, looking the adult squarely in the face, would say, “I’m not going to be anything; I already am.” We adults would be shocked by such an insolent remark for we have forgotten, if indeed we ever knew, that a child is an active participating and contributing member of society from the time he is born. Childhood isn’t a time when he is molded into a human who will then live life; he is a human who is living life. No child will miss the zest and joy of living unless these are denied him by adults who have convinced themselves that childhood is a period of preparation.
How much heartache we would save ourselves if we would recognize the child as a partner with adults in the process of living, rather than always viewing him as an apprentice. How much we would teach each other…adults with the experience and children with the freshness. How full both our lives could be. A little child may not lead us, but at least we ought to discuss the trip with him for, after all, life is his and her journey, too.” – Professor T. Ripaldi
We now have all the trusses up and barge boards in and most of the plywood sheeting done! Ben and Adam worked away here this week, trying to beat the rains that are coming! Our building inspector came by today and was excited to see the progress and all went smoothly there for our roof inspection. We will be ordering our metal roof in next week, needed to wait to get exact measurements off sheeting since natural builds don’t measure what the plans say 
so it will go up a week Monday. We are going with NovaSeal instead of the 30lb felt layers, sounds to be amazing stuff and will hold water out really well before we get the metal up.. Also have the brown coat up in the studio, thanks to our volunteer who was keen to do some plastering! Thanks Christian!!
