Today Dominque's crew comes to help us at Pierlo's. Vivian and Annelise have volunteered for this difficult job but they have the aid of Vivian's dog. She demands a lot of attention and never misses a chance to chase her little piece of wood.
When we asked Pierlo last weekend what he was planning to do with his Sunday off, he answered that he had promised his wife to start digging the greenhouse. As you can see, that didn't happen so it gets added to the jobs we Wwoofers will help with.
I think this is Joe.
You can see by the coats as well as Marion's expression that the weather is cold and it's even raining a little.
Josh (?) and Marion are mixing another load of material to use on the house.
The mixture is different from the mixture used on the exterior walls. It will be used on the walls between each room.
The rest of us are weeding the tomatoes. To the left you see Marthe for the first time. She arrived last night (replacing Ana). She is a student from northern Belgium so speaks Flemish, French, and English, although she says her English is better than her French. A friend of hers recommended she come for a time to Pierlo's as her friend had been a Wwoofer here as well and loved the experience.
It's pretty wet and there are lots of weeds but we all plow on.
A little later I check the progress up at the new greenhouse to find they have made quite an advance. They have also found a large bolder than they can't move - right near the fork.
"Please, I'm waiting for you to throw my piece of wood!"
Just before lunch, as we get ready to set up the table, the table parts become a toy. Marthe has the brilliant idea to roll along on top of the spool.
I hold my breath while Emily and Suzi give Marthe a hand in this tricky business.
Marthe is into sports so she has no trouble staying the course!
Monkey see monkey do. It's Emily's turn.
I'm not sure where Josh stands on all of this.
After lunch we all come inside to start filling in the walls. The mixture is slightly different as you may have noticed earlier in this blog as it was being mixed. The method is this: burlap is tacked up against the studs for about two feet up from the floor and then the mixture is plopped in by the handfuls and each layer must be tamped down with a stick so it is very well packed. Then, as the level reaches a certain point, more burlap is tacked up against the studs and so forth until the whole wall is done.
There is clearer lighting in the second picture so you can get a better idea of what we were doing. Is Joe falling asleep or just tired of so many pictures. That's a tease!
Time to quit and rest up for tomorrow!
No comments:
Post a Comment