Looks like a house now..

We had some awesome help from Sasha and Cedar~ Thanks guys, the sheathing looks great!
So it's August (!) and we are s l o w l y moving along.. we finished putting up the TJI's on one side of the roof today, in the wind(of course).
And onwards- hopefully we will have a covered roof by the end of this week!
Here's a link to a panoramic view- you can click and drag the mouse to see all around- it's pretty cool. 
http://360.io/vs7wXp

and to pictures...

Atlas, the Crane Truck, Helping Hands and Nail Guns.

So the framing goes slowly, but it goes. A few hiccups later, we have finished the exterior framing and set the beam and are finishing the interior framing(minimal). Thanks to laboring friends (Joseph!) and very handy crane trucks (Atlas), as well as expert crane operators (Christian) this phase is almost done. As we move into August (yikes), we have just a few more things to do (wink wink). By the next post the house will look radically different, with sheathing and a roof!

FRAMING!

This is always a fun part of house building, as you can now actually see the house from the road... slow going but I will keep posting some pics as we move along. 

 And this is the new K-shack site- ready for visitors! You can see the new house going up behind it.

Then we moved the K-Shack...

It really is starting to feel like a crazy board game, where you move buildings, containers, fences and other homely structures from a to b or maybe c. "Yeah, lets just move this thing over here, or over here- oh... it weighs a few tons, no problem!"
The container moved a few weeks ago, now the k-shack, Again I have to commend my partner, Christian for such an amazing job of forklifting and crane trucking talent. Without the guts and the mad skills he has with heavy machinery this would have been a disaster. I'll let the pictures tell the story, needless to say I have a few less fingernails to bite, but the k-shack (named after Ted Kaczynski, as he lived in something as small) is now in its new location, ready for a batch of new visitors!

We have a slab!

After two days of hot hard work, three full truck loads of concrete, ten awesome crew, we have a slab!

Did I mention it was hot, and windy? 

Cheers to all that made it happen- we are now "out of the ground". This is what it looks like:

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SLAB TIME

We are finally ready to pour the slab- which if all goes well, will happen next week. We passed our first inspection- Plumbing. Waiting on Foundation inspection...If the super crazy wind does not pick up all our handy work and disperse it all over the mesa- like it did the hot tub- we are going to be ok. May the wind be gone and may we have some rain all ready~ Inshallah

Watch out, we are getting Out of the Ground!

Picnics, deer hooves, and pulse jets...

There comes a time when not only is it important to work on the "house" but it's equally important to live on the new land in whatever way possible at the time. We did that last night by having our first meal (picnic stylie) near the house site and having a really sweet time at it. 
We are currently on hold on the building as we are getting our sculptures ready for Maker Faire in the Bay area. Two huge pieces are going- The Hand of Man and 
Caged Pulse Jets Rev3~ and one small piece, Kodiak. Lots to do in the shop but we are both anxious to get back to building when the faire is over!

And, thanks to the dogs, we have a complete set of building tools for the foundation, including a very dried out deer hoof.