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		<title>Straw Clay Aborted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Koinuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend was quite hairy, though we came out OK.
There were some bigger items on the plate: we were to install all the windows we can, and also start on the straw clay wall.  But after trying to make staw clay for 2-3 hours we decided not to do it.  First, neither of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terriaricob.wordpress.com&blog=327673&post=13&subd=terriaricob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cleaning Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Koinuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;re back from vacation and last weekend I spent cleaning our construction zone.  We&#8217;re about to order the roof for the new cottage.
Keeping the zone clean is very important.  It helps you work better and safely.  But it&#8217;s an area that I&#8217;m not particularly good at.  I usually work until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terriaricob.wordpress.com&blog=327673&post=12&subd=terriaricob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slowly but surely?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Koinuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I put up a few more posts of the interior walls.  I wish I could have done more, but there are a few decisions/researches that are pending.
Designing a building is a monster job.  I don&#8217;t envy those who do it all the time &#8212;  I hope they like doing it! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terriaricob.wordpress.com&blog=327673&post=11&subd=terriaricob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inner Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Koinuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend we got started on the inner walls.  The new strawbale cottage will house our bedroom, bath and toilet (in two separate chambers) and some storage space.  I got some 2&#215;4x10s to use as posts.
The trick is the reasonable amount of precision required to  put up these posts.  It&#8217;s kinda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terriaricob.wordpress.com&blog=327673&post=10&subd=terriaricob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Electricity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Koinuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished plastering the tops of the walls.  I woke up early to work on it a couple of days last week, although in Texas even on longest days the sun doesn&#8217;t come up until after 6am, which doesn&#8217;t leave me much time to work on it.
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		<title>Sweat, Mud, Burlap, Bees.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Koinuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s June in Texas, and it&#8217;s&#8230; hot.
This weekend I finished stuffing loose straw in the gap between the top of the strawbale walls and the ceiling framing.  I hold them together by stapling a piece of burlap.  Then on Sunday I started plastering the top of the bale walls.  Before we can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terriaricob.wordpress.com&blog=327673&post=8&subd=terriaricob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where We Are</title>
		<link>http://terriaricob.wordpress.com/2006/05/30/where-we-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 10:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Koinuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, let me catch you up to where we are, this Memorial Day Weekend of 2006.
Current projects:  Cob cottage is getting tiled on the ground floor.  We dreamed of doing adobe-floor but since we live in it Terri decided that it was too difficult to execute.  Tiling, we can do bits by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terriaricob.wordpress.com&blog=327673&post=7&subd=terriaricob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starting Up Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 10:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari Koinuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Ari and I am, well, many things.  One of which is a one-half of owner-builders of two still-not-finished cottages.  One is made with cob, the other one, strawbale.
Let me catch you up to where we are.  My wife, Terri, and I met in college (St. Olaf College) in &#8216;93, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=terriaricob.wordpress.com&blog=327673&post=6&subd=terriaricob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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