It’s days like these (picture above), that make the months and months of constant rain bearable.  We live in such a beautiful spot that I still pinch myself wondering if it’s all a dream.

This was a busy long holiday weekend.  First there was the great paintball war and camp-out on Friday. Beckett and four of his friend came over and spent several hours in heated battle up in our woods. Fortunately for me, my paintball gun jammed (That’s me on the far right), so I didn’t have to participate in the battle.  However, that didn’t stop me from getting hit by “friendly fire”.

The boys camped out inside the “shell” of our house and the next morning, we toasted bagels on our ingenious washing machine fire pit.

The rest of the weekend was spent working on our West wall.  Saturday and Sunday, we stacked blocks up to the top of the windows.  We then filled them with our lightweight concrete mix.

Afterwards, we worked on building the header above the bedroom window and door. There will be an arched window above them just like on the East wall. On the master bathroom side, the wall will continue up to the top of the arch.

The master bath will be the only room that has an actual (flat) ceiling .  This is because we need the space above the bathroom to hold our Air-to-Air, Heat Recovery Ventilation System.

After laying out the header, we mixed enough concrete to have  a continuous bond beam reinforced with rebar. We will have to buy a few more Faswall blocks to finish the West wall but it’s possible that by next weekend it will be done!

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