Hualampong Station
My overnight cabin
Relaxin' with the Justin Fisher Quintet
Rolling into CM
My low-impact housing for the next 10 days
Making mud for bricks
Ain't nothing clean about this gig
The practice of it, sir, the practice doth make us dirty?
The molds for sun-dried tomatoes, I mean, bricks
They got better as we became more experienced, but really it didn't matter too much
You lowdown dirty...
The results of our morning labor
The results of the last workshop, evidently harder-working than us. We used their dried bricks.
Bernie showing that dirt who's boss
Pi Jo with Baby Tahn who is a slave to fashion with the Tommy socks. That's Peggy back there.
Some of the Thais (and Shirley) take to the mud pit to make morter
You morter, I'll brick.
The experts do most of the door and window frame placement
Yay for unobstructed landscape views. That's Peggy and Pi Jo's house.
Our progress after one day
Higher Ground
I'm happy to lift bricks over my head if it means other people will sit atop the walls.
Precarious, indeed
The new kitchen. Brick oven and "burners" in the back. No use for a fridge.
The drying rack looking over the neighborhood
The dining room
Making an arch between the two rooms of the house
Plastering the walls
Putting on steps to lead up to the deck
Roof trusses
Chui and Me
I'm in the zone, I tell ya.
Are we there yet?
The library/demo house/office that we later painted
On my walk
Other farmers' gardens
Baby Tahn enjoys his new play pen that dad made for him.
The dam/reservior where we got purple earth for paint.
Rocket Stove (I Think It's Going To Be A Hot Hot Time)
Michele gives us the 411
Man make FIRE!!!
Jan verifies that the heat is not coming out this part
Tapioca paste is weird but a good natural weatherproofer
Using the tapioca mixture to paint the multipurpose building
Kate getting up for the get down
Apparently they ARE paying John enough to test the limits of his health insurance
Outlining the foundation
Hey, it's Linkin' Park guy (lower left with the sweet hair cut). He was amuzed to no end by the fact that Ling Gin Pak in Thai means Monkey Eats Vegetables.
The arduous task of making concrete
Pouring the foundataion bit by bit
Jan loves the heart layout but is simply killing time until he can put the roof on.
Wattle and daub it up!
How you wanna play this, Jo?
The back wall is done (note the sweet ngu (snake) that wasn't cut down)
From the outside
Tree with reptilian spine. Very disconcerting.
Bernie shields his eyes and yells "bright light" in his best Gremlins voice as I use the camera to illuminate the inside of the cave.
pretty little critter