Here with a Summer Update! One of two:

Topher spearheaded our earth oven project, an oven body composed of "cob" material: clay, sand, straw and water mixed together then packed down into a dome form lined with a fire brick insulated bottom.  

Lawn boy

 Linseed oiling the old pine floor, before it's painted

Digging out clay for the oven

Beautiful clouds

Linseed oil painting the powder room in Houghton Brown.

 Jay and his assistant finishing up the grout work on the river stone: Gratiot Suite shower.

Stripping the original pine trim from the windows.  

Sand form with brick base

Topher and the chickens giving the cob a good scratch

Starting the body one layer at a time around the base and up up up

We finished up around 11pm..deliriously giddy

Fairing out the old plaster on lathe walls with wood strips to create an air barrier, next comes plaster board then plaster then paint!  Stay tuned!