Our House

Two weeks ago, when we came out of the village last time, we sat down together as a team and decided that we would build our house (Katie’s and my house) first!

I was hit with excitement –  that we were finally getting to build our house- and the realization that OUR HOUSE WAS GOING TO BE STARTED WITHIN TWO WEEKS!

So, I proceeded to lock myself in my room and hunkered over my desk redrawing house plans, tweaking wall lengths, putting in windows, and rearranging doors all the while taking into consideration how the changes would affect the sun warming & cooling our house, Katie’s desires, and the ease of construction.  As I got things figured out and drawn up, I would let myself out of my room and take my plans to my co-workers house where he would kindly let me know that “you can’t have a roof support beam over that door – you’ll have to move the door” and other very useful information.  Katie would give her two-cents about any changes.  And then I’d go back to my desk and hunker down some more and make some more changes.  Repeat several times.

Well, FINALLY, our plans are done.  They are set in stone, almost literally.  The guys left this weekend for the village with our final set of plans that hopefully have all the bugs out of them.  They took cement for our foundation and stakes and string to mark out our walls.

At this moment, they are hauling gravel/rock from a nearby area to make the cement for our foundation.

So, in the next few days, a few of the men in the village will begin to lay our foundation and then to build our walls!

We are looking for some help to finish our house and the other houses in the new year. We are looking for skilled plumbers and electricians, those skilled with cement – for our bond beam and to pour our floor, and people to help us put up our roof.  Let me know if you could and would like to help out.

So, here’s what we’ll have in a few weeks, Lord -willing:  a foundation and our main adobe walls!