Floors! Mud Plaster! Tightening Up!

A productive day. It is tough to get a photo of the floor...so this will have to do. We have about 30% of the first, insulative layer of straw and clay down on the inside floor. We plan on finishing this section first, and then moving on to the other sections.

Joni and my daughter working on making clay slip for the floor...

Then we moved outside, where we finished putting the first layer of mud on the tall part of the Addition.

Another view...

Joni putting the last bits on another side of the house (the north side):

Previously, Joni has been working on finishing the cob work around our front door. Notice the old license plate which is embedded in the mud above the door. On the side we have old pickle jars set into the cob. We also put in a cat door so Rocky can come and go as he pleases. He likes that!

And the job of tightening up all the gaps has started. This afternoon we made clay slip to start tightening up the Addition. All those gaps where the bales don't meet the roof will be filled in by clay slip...

A good productive day. I like working on different projects at once. Helps with the monotony...