November was a slow month due to unseasonable cold, illness, poverty, and general malaise. We're hopefully on our way out of the slump. It took awhile to decide how to heat the house this year. We plan to build a clay mass heater eventually but ended up going with a double barrel stove for now. After setting it up, building the chimney, and connecting the stovepipe, Lance was able to finish the second course of the floor. He burnished it several times as it dried to try to keep the cracking down. Looks like he'll still need to do a thin finish coat to eliminate the cracks completely, but it's pretty gorgeous. The guys trimmed and evened the bales with a weedwacker, put lath up where needed to prepare for wall plaster, and did some landscaping (strawberry bed) for a brief diversion. We finally finished installing the last three windows in the clerestory. At last we were ready for wall plastering! Lance, Dan, Isaac, and Gideon got over 2/3 of the inside plastered on the north wall (3 parts sand to one part lime putty (a 50 lb bag of lime mixed with about 5 gal water)). Then our friends the Merryfields came over Saturday to help finish first layer this last weekend.
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