Building our new house
In early 2007, we began building our new Round House here at Sacred Groves with a vision to expand our residential community on this beautiful land.
We purchased 3 round structures from Oregon Yurtworks--a big house with a large round Great Room that has become the heart and hearth of the Sacred Groves community, and 2 yurtlettes, private bedroom-cabins for new residents. We are modeling a "small is beautiful" lifestyle with small personal spaces, sharing kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, living room. We are enthused about the joys and challenges of community living, committed to the spiritual and personal growth required for sharing life in this way.
This blog, which has the most recent entry at the top, tells the story of the construction of the new house, starting with the foundation built Spring 2007. Carpenter and Groves resident Tere Carranza has managed the project from start to near-finish.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Day 6--the roof panels go up!
Wednesday was EXCITING! A big boom truck showed up in the late morning, set its 'feet' and began moving roof panels. There were 7 of us on the team, including our former Groves-mate Walter, who used to work with cranes in the shipyard. Jonas, Walt and David were on the roof. Tere, Therese, Troy and Sarah were hooking up the pieces from the big piles of 'roof wafers' and Evan ran back and forth between the two groups. For 4 hours the big wafers were carried to the roof. However, after a couple minor incidents, Tere began to have safety concerns worried that the boom-operator was not fully attentive. Tere called the trucking company, expressed her concerns and then took a deep breath and decided to send the truck (and its driver) home. Another boom truck and driver will show up this morning (Thursday) to finish the last 14 panels. What a week it has been!
posted by Tere # 7:40 AM 