It's finally time, friends! The big red buckets are removed so we can fill with cob + bottles. Then we add more bottles around the door of the chicken coop, and cut down some of our shade sail posts to make lentils.
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You want me to wake up, but I'm strangled in my sleep
You want me to shape up?
But in my dreams I found relief
chicken garden glass station
day 59
Guys today, I'm cutting a few bottles not hundreds, which is good for you and me
We'll be cutting all of these really light beautiful color yellowtail bottles that a friend dropped off for us and
We're gonna be putting them in a very special place so just stay tuned and see what's going on today
All right, we did a few of those big gallon jugs on the solar shed
And I remember I said I will never do that again, and now I remember why I said that it's awful
It's scary. It's yet to be so much slower and more precise because the way the bottles are shaped
They don't sit flat on the saw
They're kind of tapered
Anyway, long story. It's just very dangerous
I don't think I'll do it again, but I did say that before so I don't know anyway
We're gonna take these up get them ready, and I'm excited to show you where they're going
Perhaps you guessed it
It's bucket time. We're gonna be taking out these buckets so many people are like why are why do you have buckets in your wall?
It's just a placeholder. We were gonna always do bottle
Bottle bricks, but then I was like what if we just made a screen
Kind of like we did with the openings got too complicated with the shape so back to bottle bricks
Guys it didn't fall. This is a this is really cool, so
What we're gonna do now. Let's make some cob and fill in this space
It's time for the other bucket
Now one thing I don't like about what we did on the first bucket is this is too much cob and not enough bottles
But I'm not gonna rip it out and do it again
So I think we're just gonna try something different on this side, they're not gonna match, but I think I'll be okay with it
Nice try to catch me
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You gotta raise a little
When the Sun
You may have noticed
Something behind us in the mountains the last couple of days a lot of smoke back there now usually
We'd be really concerned because wildfires are a big deal out here. In fact. We almost got evacuated once but
We checked it out, and it turns out that this is actually a prescribed burn by the National Forest, so they're burning
A peak over sort of on the other side, but the wind is blowing this way
It's making it look horrible all that smoke is coming over the mountains, but don't worry. It's okay
All that smells really bad, but I should go in a few days
Welcome back to book club Thursday my book pick this week is one fish two fish three fish blue fish like dr.
Seuss I didn't say it right did I I forgot the red fish I forgot the red fish
Welcome back to book club Thursday my book pick this week one fish two fish
Red fish blue fish
By dr. Seuss it's a classic. It's a book about a red fish and a blue fish
Can't go wrong with that go read it. It's awesome
Okay, we got the two bucket areas done the second one turned out way better with more bottles
But now we're gonna cob in one more jug on each side
Because we need to let that cob dry before we can add any more
To it. Hey, you can't do both of them. No one at a time. Okay, that's good
Cuz we have to do more bags anyway, yeah, and then we might need to go get some
What are you guys doing
One of the first
Projects that we did when we moved to this property
Was to put these poles up and string shade sails to protect the airstream during the summer
today we are cutting at least some of them down because
Well, the airstream is moving soon
So we're not gonna be able to use them anyway, and they would make perfect lentils for the chicken coop
So it's a little bit sad cutting down our first project, but we got to keep moving forward. So let's do it
That was dumb so dumb so so dumb
It didn't help that they were like at a weird angle. Yeah. So anyway, we got them cut
We will take the bolts out and like piece them together as lentils tomorrow, I guess right. Yep, and then
Backward more earth bags going up as fast as we can to finish the bags on the coop and the run
Well, I kind of am voting for a full workday tomorrow to where we can get the majority of the work done
I would like to get the rest of it done in two more days
It's a tall order. It is. We'll see how it goes
tall order
Does that even mean I don't know I've heard of a fine. Okay, Michael if you're a real handsome, it's a tall drink
Okay, I'll take it. Thanks. All right. Hey, guess what? I'm a tall drink of water
And we'll see you tomorrow
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