BEDROCK

I was going to give up on blogging. But then I'll just start giving up on everything. So to prevent this imminent danger, here are some photos of the house I helped build over the summer. And a link to more of them. FINALLY! I've been waiting for these. There are about 2,000 photos packed away on a camera in England, in the hands of a potter named Jo (she was our designated photographer). And I'm hoping to get a CD of them in the mail from her soon, so that I can actually show some of the in-progress shots.

Notice the clever name: Bedrock. Two reasons: there's a huge boulder built into it (and the boulder is just the tip of the iceberg; a protrusion of a large expanse of bedrock). And also: we built the bed on top of this rock. It's my favorite part of the house - so unique. It almost like a natural geo-thermal system. The rock should moderate the whole temperature of the cottage.

I talked to Ianto and Linda (owners of Cob Cottage) a week ago, and they say that the main windows are in, the roof is green and full of flowers, the fire has been going, and people have been staying there and commenting on its charm. It will forever be one of my favorite spaces.

The exclamation window is on the East side and at the foot of the bed, so that you wake up in the morning with the sun shining through and yelling "WAKE UP!" And notice the foundation stones - it's broken up pieces of concrete from the floor of a cheese factory that we hauled in a truck, and then in wheelbarrows up a hill. And the window in the door is one of Linda's blue plates that we stole while she was gone one day. Reuse at its best.