Vision | 
08 30th, 2010| 
Sorry I have been a bit slack on posting this past week!
Here are some pictures of the framed in bond beam and the pour with the 50 M concrete truck. You can see the aircraft cable loops that are under the bond beam, these are embedded into the concrete now and will be tied into the foundation ones to help “earthquake proof” our home. As far as poring concrete, we calculated how long it would take us to do it by hand (at least 5 days) so cost wise it was worth having the pump truck come. It didn’t take long to get the 3m of concrete into the bond beam. We will be tarping the walls overnight tonight since the forecast is for rain. Tomorrow we will let it set for the day then forms will come off the concrete on Wed. Then onto the 2×6 framing which will take somewhere between 3 and 5 days, then onto roof trusses!! They will be delivered early next week so will start going up a week from now! It is starting to feel like a house and the reality is sinking in that in a matter of a few weeks we will have a roof over the house , (thank goodness with the rains coming!) And be onto the final cob and then the interior!
I also added some pictures of our shrinking clay pile and wood shavings pile!!
Today it has been 2 years to the day since we moved into our 5th wheel. What an amazing two years it has been, we have grown way stronger as a family and are so excited to be living our dream and be closer each day to finishing our home! 
We are ALMOST done our cob up to where the concrete bond beam will be poured!! We are so excited!! We have Kris Dick our awesome engineer coming by in the morning tomorrow for a quick visit, we are going to check with him about making a change above the bond beam. We have not been 100% set of doing the double framed walls up there with light clay woodchip infill. So we are hoping to switch it to 2 x 6 framing on the center above the bond beam embedded in the 20 inches wide of cob. We are having a blast building with cob and it is going up super fast for us. With our amazing crew of Curtis, Gord, Eric, Ben and Daylon working the past two days.. 12 yards of cob have gone up a day. Crazy.. We are so happy with the progress we are making and will keep posting pics as we can. We are about 3 weeks away from having a roof on!!!!! Here are some pictures and also some of the goats enjoying eating the hay off the scaffolding and trying to figure out how to climb on it! And a pic of our test patch of plaster on our north infill wall, (it is sticking AMAZING! And a picture of me working on the lathe on Curts infill studio. We will start the cob floor and plaster on it this weekend..
Thanks friends who came out to cob with us today xoxo Wish I took the camera out earlier and also brought it to the river for the swim afterwards too!
I need to take a few more pics of the north wall infill but it is ALMOST done being filled with infill! We have another few batches or so and it will be full! It put quite the dent in our 50 yard pile of shavings! Early this week we will start the first layer of plastering on the exterior (north) side of the infill wall.
