Tuesday, November 18, 2014

So, You Want To Build Your Own Mud House?

 After our first house building experience, Jon started with a friend from the ground up. 

Day 1, Morning 1:

Stakes and string marked off the future walls, men poured in from all directions.

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Discussing wall placement

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Sawing logs to frame the house

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Let the walls begin!

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A separate group of men worked in a nearby pasture, peeling the bark and notching the wood.

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Do you see the hut in the background? The closest one is for livestock, the further is the house where the family has been living.

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Many hands make light work.

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Lunch break!

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A few of the many neighbors who came to help

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This sweet woman, Asmarich, is delighted for her new home but also stayed up all night, making injera for this crowd. She was exhausted.

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The father and daughter of the house.

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Placing the ceiling beams. They were notched by the carpenters. Jon is one of the workers at the top.

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The girls and I were served lunch in the hut.

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They thought it was the best thing ever, they love potato wet.

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These women bustled to prepare the next meal..

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The woman on the right is a Mother-in-law. She told me this is a sad time of year as one year ago, her mother and father died, but that she is joyful that her daughter will have a home.

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Does your six year old wield a large, curved knife to peel potatoes?  

Picture overload, I will never have the internet to post all of this, so it just became part 1. Stay tuned. :)

2 comments:

Carol and Doug said...

Thanks for this post, Amy. I was so intrigued by the other one you did on house building and I'm glad to see the various steps as your internet permits.

J and A said...

Thanks for the step-by-step, Amy! Liam loved looking at the pictures and we can't wait for part 2!