MORE ON SKYDOME


GOT A DONATION TODAY! Went to Habitat for Humanity. BOUGHT A BIG (new) RUG! COVERS ALL GRAVEL (I’m concerned of) now!
GOT A DONATION TODAY! Went to Habitat for Humanity. BOUGHT A BIG (new) RUG! COVERS ALL GRAVEL (I’m concerned of) now!
ALOT of Doing on Sky’s dome today. MAJOR THINGS! The FLOOR!  Trenched alongside wall inside (already done so outside). Double Protection ! Then Tom (“Weeds”) and I pulled in a HUGE used Hay Tarp and, in ONE FELL “SWOOP”, covered ALL the floor. Bathroom included. All in one piece. THIS TOOK HOURS! Once in, we started putting gravel over it all. The tarp is the Water Vapor (ground) stopper AND DIRT COVER. The Gravel the Walk On FLOOR. (In time, if $$, will carpet that all. ‘Til then…Works. Aho?)
I DO have a SECTION of BEAUTIFUL Deep Nap carpet. Only covers a very small space tho. Got IT down / on too. Another Indoor-Outdoor carpet now covers the Bathroom now as well. Gravel below that, tarp below THAT. Bathroom now “done”…(will add stone on walls when time).
After all this we returned the furniture and placed again.
THIS PLACE LOOKS FANTASTIC!  AND just BARE ESSENTIALS inside. FANCYING UP will take time, so I don’t consider it done yet.
Still have to put the final tarp cover on (it blew off). Then cut the windows, a Smoke Hole at top and put windows in and smoke hole cover after all that.
I SEE THE “END OF THE TUNNEL BIG TIME, now.
Adam intends to fix his chimney this weekend…..completing THAT dome. So, 2 outta 3 “ready to go.”
“Weeds” has been a FANTASTIC HELPER. Help? No…HE DOES it ALL, as I basically sit and tell.
He’ll sure know how to do a dome (my way). And INTENDS TOO. HIS “cabin in the woods.” Will be a “piece of cake” for him now.
Again, STILL at $350.00 for ALL this.
Beat THAT! (  :     re
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Just added a “WELCOME TO SEE” (Domes(s)) piece on Ghost’s Hub (shoestring cabin). Mite wanna check it out…scroll down Down DOWN. re
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To “unwind” from today’s “doing”, I’ve been out making FIRE BUNDLES. Small fist-sized willow and weed sticks. A thick handful, rubber banded together into bundles. Thus cleaning up the dome areas AND using the “trash” in a useful way.
I find this relaxing as well as bettering the area.
Something children can do as adults do what is needed in building / etc.
Why just let it lay? Why rake into piles and burn uselessly? Why let your area be messy?
Told before we waste needlessly.
Perhaps YOU might need to relax a bit too. Here’s a productive way of doing so and with pleasing results. Aho? re
TRIP REPORT on Dome Work on Other Property:
What an ADVENTURE!
Won’t go into explanation but Adam and I took our own rigs….LOADED with To-Do needs. Both DEAD BEAT SLEEPY, but went anyway Friday evening. “Lost” Adam’s rig and had to park it MILES from domesite.
Got LOST trying to locate a DETOUR sign that WORKED! Back and Forth looking. Didn’t get there till 1:00 AM! Maybe 2 1/2  hrs MORE then normal.
A 3rd joined us.
Set up camp. I slept in my pickup. They on ground.
Anyway, after SOME sleep we went back to Adams pickup and brought it up. THEN started looking for land to buy (Adam). So, Saturday nearly WASTED. Not totally tho. The 2 got SUPER BUSY. Had to cut weeds SO TALL they went to Adam’s HEAD (over 6 ft tall). Had to do to GET TO THE DOME! Adam learned how to use a SCYTHE while Tom (the other) used my weed eater. BEAUTFUL JOB! Looks darn near like a Park now. PTL!
Then moved the Dog Kennel in the spot that I needed. This to be the wall “framing” for our kitchen. Left a Walk-In GAP between this and dome…SET A LARGE BATHROOM area there. Nothing Small about it. Then did a “quicky” WOOD SHED dome. TEMP for now. Frame only.
I added more Heat Collecting Stones to both sides and back of the small woodstove as Tom connected wire mesh. Still not fully done but only a SMALL amount to finish That (next trip).
Adam left early Sunday, a LOOONG drive. 11 or more hours and had to work next day. Tom took on the extra “load”. Did a HECK of a job!
Me? Mostly SAT and “ordered” Both of ‘em. Leg stove in…and back. Easier to Supervise then “do”. Aho? THESE TWO GUYS WERE WONDERFUL! Missed day or not, LOTS DONE in but a few hours.
They made a SUPER Camp set-up too. BIG Lean-To Tarp…my fire pit in front. NEVER TOOK PICTURES OF THIS (darn it). REAL “early FUR GATHERER set up. PRIMITIVE but RIGHT AT “HOME”.
The 2 took turns putting out some FANTASTIC Meals! Me?: “SUPERVISED”. ( :
Anyway, no covering BUT ONLY HOURS FROM DOING SO!
Took up more tarps. Should be Enough IF NO BIG HOLES.
Anyway, stopped in our local town to fill the tank. On my home..leaving just some change and $16.00.
But I’m HOME!..I GOT UP THERE! And we GOT an ENORMOUS AMOUNT DONE! A TOTAL SUCCESS!
Want all to understand: this trip would have been IMPOSSIBLE without the PRAYERS sent up and the DONATIONS sent. THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU MADE POSSIBLE!
Oh, before closing: saw some NICE “For Sale” property at this SAFE site. 20 acres per at $30,900.00 per. WILDERNESS THO! You’d need to be VERY serious to live in MOST of these spots. Darn near “Mountain Man” living.. With a FAMILY, HARD ! Alone? HARD!
Interested?  re
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“LIVING OFF THE GRID”
Do you REALLY understand what That MEANS?!
It means SOLAR Panels / WIND / PROPANE / GENERATOR / BATTERIES / FUEL…and more.
Have you PRICED these things !?
AND WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN Parts and Replacements and Fuel goes into NON-EXISTENT, or SO HIGH in Cost, YOU CANT “GET”!
THIS is EXACTLY WHAT THIS NATION IS ABOUT TO FACE!
Our Ancestors managed. No matter WHAT “race”.
STUDY THOSE WAYS!
I’M GETTING “HOARSE”  SCREAMING in the “Wilderness!”
GET OFF YOUR BUTTS and DO!   re
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