HAMADRYAD

Hi all !!!

 

As you allready might know… I’VE GOT MY BUILDING PERMISSION !!!!!  *** HUGE APPLAUSE ***

So, this means I can finally get started! Last week I also received my loan, so I can start buying all my materials!

 

But first things first… where are we now?

Uptill now I have been preparing the scene as good as possible:

1. I have a workingspace

2. I have electricity of the neighbours, just to get some woodworking machines going

3. I have water from a pit, it’s not clean enough to use for cooking or drinking, but it will do for all other stuff

4. I cleaned out the area: broke down the chalet, cleared some bushes and with my friend Wouter we chopped some trees who were ill and a potential  danger to the building later on (more about this in my next message).

5. I bought myself a trailer which we will transport on saturday… this will be my temporary shelter during the works and probably during winter

6.  We builed a composting toilet

7. We had a great party to celebrate the beginning of the construction !!!!

There are allready allot of people to thank and I’m thinking of putting up an extra page just to do this  because this project is really not a project of only myself… it’s that of all people helping me out and making this possible to me! So for those who put their hands in the dirt or helped me in some kind of way.. advising me, giving me moral support and especially my parents who also helped me out financially: A BIG THANK YOU !!!

 By now you must be thinking what all this has to do with the subject of this post “Sand”… Well.. the first thing I have to do is to elevate the ground with about half a meter…During winter I noticed how the ground got really moisted and this would be a huge potential danger when building with strawbales… So I’m going up 50cms! And to do this I need sand… it took me a while to find the right sand in the neightbourhood, but finally I found it !!!

This saturday a man will bring it with a tractor and leave it on the path in front of the ground. “Why not take it directly to the place of contruction?” I hear you ask.. well.. I would have to chop of some major branches of two of my hazletrees and that would really be awefull!

So in stead I’m gathering allot of people who want to help me out by transporting the sand (by hand) from the path to the construction area! So I need allot of hands and feet for that !!!!

 

Well… next topic is very interesting, so I won’t bother you more with all this less important stuff

 

Cherios!

 

 

 

 

 

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