Still Here Part Deux

Okay so to continue on from the last post I have some more pics for you. A couple more before and after(ish) pics and some pics of the first winter and summer. Also someone asked me if the after pictures that I posted were the finished state, the answer is no it is simply where I am at currently. I am still a ways of from having any of it really finished. (that is if I am ever satisfied with it)

Anyway on with the pics.

Before

Kitchen After

My first "design" element on the house

And of course the first "meal" cooked is coffee

South Face before

Framing for the south facing windows

South Face with the windows installed.

Living room with the earthen plaster scratch coat installed

First harvest... "wild" horseradish

Insulated battery box for the solar power system.

Second coat of earthen plaster installed. Loving the lighting.

October "before" the first winter

December "after" the first winter. Was so not prepared for this.

At least the cold makes tasks like removing this from the walls easier.

Spring finally arrives

Pickleopolis. Cukes loved it.

Garden beds done

Herb garden with wattle fencing from local willow.

This is where all of the sod that was removed for the garden beds went. "Instant" hedge.

Hedge with willow planted.

First of the spring veg beet root. LOTS of beet root.

The first cooked meal from the garden, greens, onions, and radishes

Carrot Love

This is why I love heirloom varieties... ugly but OH SO GOOD

Heirloom corn getting a bit tall

Baking bread without an oven

Digging the footer for the new oven.

Using up some more of the sod. she loves it in here during the summer. It is easily 15 degrees cooler.

Onion Harvest and learning braiding.

Okay that's it for today. Tomorrow should catch us up to the present and thoughts on what I have learned so far.

Tune in.

Yes I am still here

Okay so...
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a BAD blogger. I have a problem with updating regularly, even when I have access to the internet regularly, and at the moment my access is spotty at best.

BUT that does not mean that I haven't been busy. So here are some pics. Where possible I am going to give you before and after pics so that you can get an idea of the progress

The siding on the front of the house is done. Cedar siding and the shakes are made from pallet wood rejects from a local sawmill that I get for $5.00 a ton.

South side siding almost complete, note the temporary green house.

Earthen plaster finished(ish), not totally finished with the rest of the house so the quilt helps keep the heat in the lived in sections.

Trying my hand at making maple syrup from my maple tree.

Gonna end this for now so I can get some more work done. More tomorrow(?)