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I have had a really exceptional mushroom season even though it has been hard
to get time to walk. Every time I went I found loads of the few that I trust
to eat. I'm trying to teach the dog to show me when she smells the right
ones. Not much luck with that so far. Are the above mushrooms being grown in
a nursery? Pensylvania? - Jo M

I still need to be taken by hand into the world of facebook, maybe when Ivy
moves home soon, and she can help me.

Walls up to Basement Ceiling

The walls are stacked, the windows are framed and then braced up and down and side to side. The frames will be used to attach the windows later on. The braces are only there during the cement pour, so that the weight does not warp the frames in or down. The cement gets pumped fast and furious. It was all Brent could do to keep it under control so it went in the walls.

Well, Well, Well

Well, Well, Well a very deep subject.

40 gallons a min. @ 320 feet

We can shower, wash, and water to our hearts content.

Level One & Electricity

Sometimes in one day huge things happen. One day we're sort of a battery
operated operation and the next day the electricity arrives, goes
underground, gets a meter and in no time at all we can plug in the radio, Oh
Yea! and the power tools. We really got a charge out of it.

Cement, the first pour

The sides where the daylight basement is has a foundation 4 feet below the
level of the basement. The sides where there will only be high basement
windows only has foundation to just below the basement floor. At the end of
this first cement pour the foundation was all at one hight about two feet
above the basement floor and we could really see the full outline of the
octagon. After the stumps were pulled out of the field it was just dirt and
dust. Brent seeded it with clover and timothy (a grass) that will hold the
soil and add nutients. The day after the cement, the outside of the
styrofoam got sealed with a very sticky thick contact paper, and the trench
got backfilled with dirt.

Foundation Hole and Footings

Footings filled with cement as base for first layer of Styrofoam blocks. The
blocks are put together like leggos, with spaces framed out for doors and
windows. Cement is poured down the space between the Styrofoam, prepped with
re-bar. The foundation, insulation completed and ready for interior and
exterior siding. Very green, very energy efficient.

Rebirth of a Field

The field we are clearing was a field with about 40 years growth - over
growth. Many of the older people in town remember playing baseball up in
there as children. The cutter showed us that it used to be an orchard and
it's easy to imagine someday replanting that; so many possibilities.