tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27452256658583421082024-03-06T12:00:58.468-08:00Building An Earthbag Home in Northern New MexicoAly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-70216448920799276732015-07-30T07:51:00.001-07:002015-07-30T07:51:45.619-07:00Beyond Laundry: Taos' Sustainable Laundromat<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">It's been almost a year since I last posted, and I have so much to tell you about--the gorgeous attached greenhouse, the beautifully vibrant red earthen floors and so much more. And I will soon. I promise. In the meantime, however, I have to post about a totally inspiring project that *one day* I hope and plan to be a part of. My dear friend Susan of <a href="http://taoshivehome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Home Sweet Hive</a> just launched her Indiegogo campaign for a laundromat utilizing rainwater catchment and greywater reuse right here in Taos. If you have any interest in sustainability projects, which I'm guessing you do since you're on this blog, please check out her campaign <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/beyond-laundry#/funders" target="_blank">here</a> and get inspired! I am!</span>Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-88914319886073516822014-08-11T09:26:00.002-07:002014-08-11T09:26:38.171-07:00The Baby Has a Bedroom and I Am Still AliveYou may have noticed that I don't post much these days. The honest truth is that the last time I posted was eight months ago. Wow. I used to post like four times a week. But that was before I had a baby, a dog, two (living) cats, chickens, a boyfriend and a job.<br>
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I've been meaning to write for a while. By a while I mean months, of course, or even a year if I mean a juicy posting that's actually conveying what I'm doing. As you may have noted early last fall, I was a little behind because I was just too busy trying to get done everything I needed to get done before the baby came, which was a bit early anyways.<br>
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When doing anything it's best to be prepared for the unexpected. That was true of building and held even more true for pregnancy. I had just entered the third trimester, was about to go on vacation, and was trying to figure out how to get the last few things I needed done on the house when boom! Xiomara Nightingale popped out at 24 weeks, on November 13th. Three months early! Could never have prepared myself for that. Luckily we were in California and got transferred to amazing Stanford--which is now my new home for the next 2-3 months as I wait for her to grow. Tiny, tiny, tiny but healthy, beautiful and strong.<br />
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<br />Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-57361306034045344532012-09-29T10:19:00.000-07:002012-09-29T10:19:01.586-07:00Installing the Overflow from a CisternThough I certainly knew that overflow piping from cisterns existed,
it had never hit home that I was going to have to put it in. Let's face
it, all sorts of plumbing things intimidated me before...now. A couple
months ago, my friend was putting in an overflow for his cistern and
told me I needed to absolutely do it. I accepted it, mentally putting it
on the list of stuff I would do before winter but didn't want to have
to do any sooner than necessary.<br>
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<br />Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-7797981592812972372012-08-19T15:26:00.001-07:002012-08-20T19:36:15.516-07:00Plaster and Floors and Bottle Walls!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Finally! Things are happening in my house. I have a helper--Raymond, who was also a huge help doing the roof last fall--and I am functioning again! I worked five days this week which hasn't happened since May.<br>
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This post has been sitting as a draft for quite some time. Back before I insulated I had to mouse-proof the outside. The biggest problem I came up against was the propanel ridges--there's no way to close them off. A friend suggested steel wool--mice can't chew through it. So I stuffed all those cracks with a couple boxes of steel wool and threw some silicone sealant around for good measure. Time will tell.</div>
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The stairs going into my house have been treacherous ever since I put them in last fall to avoid having to jump down three feet into the house. I had considered finishing them with mud, but a friend of mine suggested that I make them out of wood and hinge the stairs for storage space. Great idea! They're not finished because I think I might like to shorten their width so that there's more floor space on the left-hand side by those red bags. Meanwhile, I'm waiting to see before I make them permanent by sheathing the sides, bottom and back with wood. </div>
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Finally! The seemingly endless bags of wool that ruled my house have disappeared...they now live above plastic sheeting between my rafters, keeping my house cool underneath the beating sun. All the wool is gone, and in fact I'm 10-20 lbs. short. I'm going to find that in the next week or so, hopefully close by, and finish up the job. <br>
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<br />Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-26324707217769754652012-06-22T14:55:00.004-07:002012-06-22T14:55:50.302-07:00What's Been HappeningI've gotten a lot done lately. Along with that is an anxiety that I'm not getting things done fast enough and that there is a sense of urgency. Which there isn't. It isn't even the solstice yet! Today is a day off. A real day off. I'm friends with a couple who keep Shabbat. They don't do it because of deep religious convictions, but because of its original purpose: to force you to break the week, give you time to spend with family and loved ones and to take a rest and to sit with life. They stay at home, or wherever they happen to be if they're on a trip, and don't drive on Saturdays. I stopped by last week to borrow some tools to set up my solar system and ended up staying for brunch and the entire afternoon. I could sense the strong effect of committing to such a thing in a world where a sense of urgency is so pervasive. <br>
<a href="https://alysearthbaghome.blogspot.com/2012/06/whats-been-happening.html#more">Read more »</a>Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-58208454499392835312012-05-14T12:47:00.001-07:002012-05-14T12:48:17.198-07:00I'm Collecting Water!So, I've been quite bad about blogging. I find that whenever I'm actually doing things I don't have time to write about it, and when I do have time to write it means I'm not doing much and thus don't have much to write about. It took me a little bit of time to get back into the groove of things--finally, helping a couple friends on their projects helped me get started on my own. I worked pretty hard for a week, got my catchment set up and then left to visit family. It began raining right after I finished, so when I return I should have a happy amount of water waiting for me. I cannot even imagine how that will change my life.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The start of the gutters.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The slitted 4" hdpe pipe.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished gutters.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hanging tape for connecting the gutters.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost done connecting the downspouts!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Milla is the champion of silicone!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water catchment!</td></tr>
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</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://alysearthbaghome.blogspot.com/2012/05/im-collecting-water.html#more">Read more »</a>Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-35288868961135208752012-04-08T10:21:00.001-07:002012-04-08T11:10:24.197-07:00Back in New Mexico!So I finally arrived back to Taos on Friday after a 5 month west coast sojourn. I had forgotten that sunshine existed so what a nice surprise this 70 degree weather is. Soon it will be time to get back to the house. The first order of business is to exterminate the mice that have taken up residence in my humble abode, and probably destroyed most of my stuff which I naively left laying around. I say probably because, though I've been home for two days, I haven't actually gone up to my house yet. <br>
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<a href="https://alysearthbaghome.blogspot.com/2012/04/back-in-new-mexico.html#more">Read more »</a>Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-77844885212019220252012-01-30T09:55:00.000-08:002012-01-30T09:55:34.709-08:00Aussie Article About My HouseThe Owner-Builder in Australia contacted me about doing an article for their magazine. I wrote about the process of building my earthbag house and it just came out in the February/March 2012 edition! Check out the link below. Unfortunately, you have to subscribe to it either online or in print to be able to read/see it (there's lots of cool photos, all of which are on this blog too). I love how it turned out and it was beyond exciting for me to not only write a synthesis of this wondrous last year, but to have it published too!<br />
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<a href="http://www.theownerbuilder.com.au/current_issue.htm">http://www.theownerbuilder.com.au/current_issue.htm</a>Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745225665858342108.post-48711646002166974072011-11-15T17:16:00.001-08:002011-11-15T17:24:12.999-08:00Trash<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After 6 months, this is the only trash I hauled out, not including kitchen garbage. It's pretty spread out, but could easily fit into two large, black garbage bags. It's mostly scraps from the poly strapping and plastic sheeting. The metal scraps are going to stay--I'm sure I can find some use for them. The bottles in the background are an assortment from this summer--I'm going to use them for the bathroom wall.Aly b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06859178279929107190noreply@blogger.com6