BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:09 PM

GREAT! Terry must be having ISP problems.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:10 PM

Naw, I just aimed well.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:42 PM

LOL! Up before dark! WOW!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 03:47 PM

The wind is still wild here. I am amazed they can work in it. What a temptation to sleep under your new roof tonight, Maeve?
More good news.
Congratulations,
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 04:00 PM

As of 4:45 PM the circle of walls is complete. The last of the crew is leaving. The neighbor who made the emergency call the night of the fire was witness as the last door section slid into place; a perfect fit.

Sins, it would be mighty cold in there tonight, although the stars will be brilliant looking up into the night sky. Tomorrow the crane will be here, and after the temporary brace is built to hold the skylight ring, the roof sections will be raised and fitted into place.

Thank you, for your enthusiasm.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 04:13 PM

By the way...I mentioned to our crew that some of our friends around the world were astonished they could work in today's snow, cold, and wind. He laughed, saying, "Around here, we'd never make any money if we didn't!"

I've rolled up six or so huge rolls of heavy plastic. TL and I are going out again for a quiet look at our new home.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 04:17 PM

What a way to end the year! How neat that your neighbour was witness.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 04:37 PM

A friend once gave me a haiku: "When my house burned down, I was able to see the moon."
While you surely can, and I hope you can see it now (as it rises - I'm not even going out there to see where it is!) through the non-roof of your impending new home. Having warm shelter certainly trumps seeing the moon on a night as we shall have tonight.

23 at present here in almost downtown Montreal. I reckon it will be cooler in the country.

Congratulations on such tremendous progress and your ability to deal with conditions that would overwhelm many.

"Anything that doesn't kill you outright, makes you stronger." Piet Hein, and others

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 07:02 PM

wonderful news

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 07:19 PM

What wonderful news! I'm looking forward to getting to visit with you before too long to see all the progress that has been made.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 07:29 PM

All misty here, Maeve and TL. A long time coming.
Enjoy~
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 07:56 PM

If it was clear sky and I was there, I would dearly love to sit in a chair, in the middle of the yurt, and raise a jar, to the stars.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 08:07 PM

Thank you, everyone.

Gnu- Yes. That would be good.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Janie
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 08:53 PM

Speechless and a-shiver with vicarious excitement!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: LilyFestre
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 09:03 PM

MAEVE!!!!!!!

   I am SO excited for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    I wish I could be there to see your new house but also the smile on your face!!! YAY!!!

*********HAPPY DANCE************

Much love,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Cuilionn
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 09:13 PM

A charm for yurt-raising:
(To be whispered while workers toil and cranes dance)

Rise, rise, like warm bread for baking,
Rise, rise, like a star in the sky--
Walls against wind and a roof in the making;
Shelter of peace with our dreams resting nigh.

(Blessed Be!)

--Cuilionn

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 10:00 PM

Perfect, Cuilionn...very lovely elements.

maeve & TL, we are so happy for you. Rog and I send our best.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Cuilionn
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 07:44 AM

(Not as eloquent as Jeri's, but charms require a certain compression of speech and intention.)

:-)

--Cuilionn

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:16 AM

Thanks for poetry and hallelujahs.

The builders are building the temporary brace for the skylight ring. When the crane arrives work will begin on the roof segments and skylight.

It will be a wee while before we can actually move in. There are interior wall partitions to build, three doors to install, spray foam insulation, wall insulation, wallboard, plastering, plumbing, and wiring to do. The woodstove for heating and cooking must be installed properly. We own a toilet but not a bathroom or kitchen sink, shower, bed, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:43 AM

Life's a cinch
Inch by inch
Life is hard
yard by yard

Inchin' yer way there, maeve...

I'd love to be there with my tool belt to help...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: My guru always said
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 09:55 AM

Just wonderful!!! Positive thoughts still coming from across the pond at Old Keepers xx

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 10:52 AM

They've built the "crow's nest" to correctly position the skylight ring into which the rafters will bolt. The first rafter is going up right now.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: mouldy
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 01:07 PM

It's a blur of activity!
Can't wait to hear you're "topping out". Don't forget to toast the new home when you do.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 02:15 PM

Wonder who will have first footing?!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 06:04 PM

those workmen are the best!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 06:55 PM

They worked on rafters all day. Those beams are big and heavy! With the skilled assistance from the crane operator, they got all of them in their appointed slots and fastened. Tomorrow is devoted to the roofing panels.

We're exhausted!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 05:07 AM

Wonderful! Hope you're able to catch some zzz's, though it must be almost impossible with all this excitement going on. Though there's a lot of work yet to be done, your new home is growing!

We're off away for a few days with no access, so I wish you and your Truelove a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Love & Hugs,
Hil xx

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 06:26 AM

Echoing the statements of excitement on this thread. Feels like Christmas.

Can't wait for the online photo album of progress. No pressure, Maeve. Just another part of the project to look forward too. I like looking forward. My head is usually screwed on backwards these days.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 07:36 AM

Roof TODAY !!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 09:56 AM

This is so exciting!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:03 AM

Heave ho, raise 'em up high boys! Or..something like that...we could all raise the rafters with a set time "Sing" round the world. Hmmm...maybe we should set up a time to do something like that for Spaw.

G'morning, maeve and TL!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:09 AM

Little sleep here.

The morning began before dawn, with our several-times-daily clean-up patrol to clear the site and surrounding area of debris, plastic, metal strapping, excess lumber, cardboard, etc.

The building crew began by double checking rafter hardware. Since then, they've been slowly working with the cable that counters the outward pressure of the walls and rafters.

We've been working inside, dealing with the camper door that wouldn't close due to ice, and regaining some order inside.

Everything depends on the cable being threaded through and correctly tightened. After that it will be time for the roofing panels.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:10 AM

I swear, this morning my dogs were asking about this project. They were out in the yard, and I heard "roof! roof!"

:-)

It's a remarkable process.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: gnu
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 11:26 AM

SRS.... heheheee

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 12:33 PM

And you guys were going to do it yourself????? YIKES

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 01:01 PM

Actually Sins, we were never going to do this ourselves. We were going to hire a builder to supervise a group of trained carpenter volunteers...when we were planning on one less than 1/3 the size of this. When we decided on this model we needed a forklift and crane; thus we had an opportunity to let the ripples include this crew.

After our project is complete we'll have made it possible for the whole crew to learn how to assemble this kind of yurt; qualifying them for recommendations from us and from the company when anyone in this part of Maine buys one of these kits. The next yurt kit customer in the area will benefit.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 02:52 PM

The last roof section went on just at noon. TL and I went inside to admire the beautiful Western Red Cedar ceiling and Douglas Fir rafters.

A visitor who knows of our fire stopped in to admire the yurt. "This will be a happy home," he opined.

They're all topside right now, patiently foaming each of the roof section joints. Next the long edges of roof underlayment will be slipped under, as shingles are woven in and fastened all the way up each seam. That will likely not be finished until after the New Year's holiday.

Rain is coming in on Sunday. We have a roof.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: gnu
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 03:10 PM

A roof. Nice. Happy New Year.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: kendall
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 03:49 PM

More pix!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 04:56 PM

I'm working on a photo page, Kendall. You'll have to make due with word pictures for now. :)

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:24 PM

The smell of the roof would be driving me nuts right now. My guitar's face is red cedar. Where I grew up, there was a cedar tree right outside the front door that lived with a hemlock and some other trees that shaded and sheltered a little hideaway where jack-in-the-pulpit grew. Of course, there are probably other smells right now, but the cedar would drive me nuts. I look forward to seeing the roof, whenever that happens.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:46 PM

A very fitting beginning for the new year...

Hooray!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:48 PM

I meant "make do" of course :)

Jeri- Yes, it smells good; clean and sweet, with a woodsy kick to it. You'll love it. It's quite a welcome change from the dead fire smell.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 05:50 PM

Thank you, Bobert. We can't move in yet, but we can enjoy the beautiful ceiling.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Nancy King
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 06:27 PM

Sounds wonderful, Maeve! Things seem to be going your way at last! 2011 is bound to be better than 2010 for you!

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 08:26 PM

We can't move in yet, but we can enjoy the beautiful ceiling.

===============

perfect spot for a picnic lunch in the forest!

walls & roof - you have the shape of a home, now it only needs to be finished & filled.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:30 PM

Second try: I hope you'll think of some suitable ceremony for in the new structure to bring in the new year. It'll be a remarkable time, and think of the possibilities in this space. (I'm not saying what ceremony, and we don't need a report, but it seems like a great way to make the building more your own on a cosmic level.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Crowhugger
Date: 31 Dec 10 - 09:40 PM

The roof on, wow! Such wonderful news Maeve, a big step. And now I'm breathing deeply, basking in the imaginary wood aromas from your beautiful new rafters. Doing a virtual monkey-swing through them too.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 03:46 AM

Thanks...Yes the roof is on, just in time...It's raining! It was expected on Sunday not Saturday. I just went out to pull plastic and tarps over the various stacks and piles of lumber and packing materials.

Happy New Year to y'all.

Subject: RE: BS: New Beginnings - new foundation (maeve & TL)
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 08:08 AM

Ya'll up either real late or real early, maeve, but no matter... Just nice to be under roof, isn't it...

Do ya'll have a propane heater so ya can spend any time in it without freezin'???

B~