October

This has been a changing month. The leaves are falling rapidly off the trees and winter is setting in! Jim and Sam have left and gone back home to the USA. We miss you both so much and thank you both for all your many gifts and talents and for sharing them with us. To ease our pain Jo, Mirabel and Laurene are here to keep us laughing and do some building

Good Bye Alastair

Alastair left us last week, but not without doing some outstanding craftsmanship and giving us some great laughs.

We also had a pizza party last Sunday to celebrate Sam's 24th Birthday!, Les' arrival to stay with us for a week and to say Fairwell to Alastair.

Also we went to Cloughjordan Ecovillage to help Deirdre and Andrew and their 2 daughters Ciara and Saidhbh with cobbing on their new house - good fun and great to get some mud on our hands with all this timber work!

the bossman soaking up some rare sunshine while leveling the rafters.



jim helping karen stay sane on her mortise and tenon which looks great!



good ole jerry scribing a saddle on a rafter, notice the intense concentration!



The experts figuring out this massive puzzle.



Our hard work is paying off!!!



a walter segal method course a few of us did over the weekend at the hollies. with many helping hands this frame was built in just two days!



Finally finished with a mortise and tenon! these joints take almost a week to do but they sure look beautiful.

august

So far august has been a bit rainy but has held some great progress! All the rafters on the east side of the building are finished. Each one has four saddle joints in it to hold it in place and during that process we have made each one level with the rest using a big level. The west side of the building is going quickly with just a few more joints to do. Soon we will begin to put the roof on the east side. A few leaners( big diagonal braces) have been finished which really change the feeling of the building. Good times have been held all around with all these goofy people!

Good Bye Thomas

Good Bye Thomas. Safe travelling home. We will all miss the laughs and your strong spirit. Thanks for you energy and skilled workmanship. Keep up the building.

Also welcome to Laurene who arrived today and will be with us for the next few weeks.

Timber Framing

All the hard work on the framing bed is paying off and the timber frame is going up quickly!

Holidays

Welcome back to everyone after our well deserved week off. Unfortunately Grant will not be returning.
Grant we miss you and wish you all the best in the future. Thank you for your time with us and your touches can be seen all over our building and site - Take care and stay in touch