Remembered we need to go to the store so am gonna do that instead. And a sigh of great relief is heard from assorted muscles… 😉

Gonna try for one more load tonight and then call it quits on that anyway. Back later…

Looks like we’ll need more like 9 or 10 loads that size. Or more. Got an old plastic fence panel and poured the gravel on it to drain/dry.

Figure the barrow full weighs between 5 and 6 hundred pounds, and at a guess, thinking we’ll need 5 or 6 of them to do the fill and cob.

First load of creek gravel pushed up here. Now to figure out how to dry it so I can bring it in to fill with. Don’t want to bring it in wet.

Time to clean out/off the rubber boots I set on the back porch earlier today after being buried in the rubble in here for months.

Thinking about going to the creek with the wheelbarrow to get a load of gravel to set the rock in with. Will need to dry so guess I need to.

First piece of tin screwed in place. Rocks and urbanite holding it tight at the bottom. Had to take a break from picking and choosing rocks.

Lunch done. Trying to find the energy to put the tin on the wall. However energy seems to be hiding very well right now.

Think I am gonna take a break and read a bit then eat lunch. Till later, folks…

The rock will give me a good start on the base for the heat storage bench for the Rocket Mass Heater. Slowly, slowly, eats the elephant.

Soon as the tin dries out will straighten the bends a bit and start attaching it to the studs. Then can pile the stone against it.

Will have to space the loft support posts out a bit but that’s probably for the good anyway.

Turned out I had two sheets of the old tin so can do the entire bottom of that wall rather than just the north end.

Guess I need to go out and get the tin to put up on the wall. After another cup of coffee that is…