fatvegan

Today was probably the first real day of building my mud brick house. I've finally got some soil (dad and I went to the dirt shop and got some) and I've set up the water and this morning I made five whole bricks. Yep. All by myself. I did it. They were even pretty good ones. It was hard work and I ached for the rest of the day but I not so sore that it stopped from coming home and making six more whole bricks. Leaving me with a total of 11 bricks. It's a pretty good days effort. Especially considering you can't do any work between 8am and 7pm.

Apparently, the whole house will need about 3000 bricks to make. About 30 tonnes of dirt. It's a pretty tiny house, so it seems like an awful lot of dirt.

Perhaps the house will take the whole year to build and not just three months. But that is OK. I don't have much else to do next year.