Earthship construction: Day 12
No fibers this morning. Lydia and Jo have volunteered to drive to Managua to buy fibers at the one store in the country that sells them. That drive is a minimum five hours return trip on a less than perfect road, so their efforts are appreciated even before they depart.
At the job-site, the morning is running notably smoother than the previous day despite the few hours of rain last night. It’s a muddy start to the day, but the Nicaraguans glide through the mud like hockey players on ice. It is clear that the mud will not slow us down.
Nevertheless, rain this time of year is strange and we hope that it doesn’t continue. Until the roads are prepped for rain, they are nothing more than flat canals that will simply channel the water in small rivers, cutting away at the soft, exposed topsoil.
There are probably too many hands considering the skill sets of the local crew, the materials, and the technical work that is needed today.
But, it’s a great group of people and the individual personalities are an addition to the site. The people here are eager to work, but the work is new, so it is expected that there will be some standing around.
By the end of the day, Demian has a small section of the front face up to Bond Beam height. Justin has the door-frame placed in the systems room. And Ted has bounced around every spot on site, making sure that everything is up to Earthship standards.
Good forward progress today.
