On Thursday I noticed that vague feeling in the back of the throat that can signal that one might be getting sick, so I took a hot shower and made a point of sleeping in on Friday, when I had enough energy in the morning to do my workout, and still had energy in the early evening for acroyoga at Phire practice, but still felt kinda like I was on ( Read more... )

This week has slipped by very quickly--we have managed several four-hour sessions on earth cellar building, and are now nearing the point where we will be able to start building the framework for the roof. We have also managed to get in some yard work--the first few strawberries and smultrons are starting to ripen, he fixed the ride-on mower ( ( Read more... )

While that might be said about every day, this time we actually considered doing so, and even went so far as to drive across town and look at one that is for sale. It was a cute little thing, built in 1960. No where near as strong as the one we have been borrowing from lord_kjar's dad, but big enough to do some of the things we want in our earth cellar ( Read more... )

April and May were particularly busy months for me, and included travel. As a result my exercise log got kind of behind. Not the basic data entry--these days I do that on my phone, but the excel spreadsheet where I actually tally up the number of hours spent on various activities and convert the data to graphs--that part didn't really get done ( Read more... )

Last week was Umasmedeltidsdagar, an SCA camping event which ran from Sunday evening through Thursday morning. Since it was happening during the week lord_kjar couldn't attend, since his summer vacation starts this week (his company splits the summer in half such that half of the employees can take their holidays during the first half of the summer, the ( Read more... )

Now that midsummer has been and gone, and with it our obligations for folk dance performances we are finally free to return our attentions to the earth cellar in progress. We had planned to go shopping for concrete on Friday, but it rained all day, and we decided we didn't feel for bothering with tarps in hopes of keeping it dry for the trip home, ( Read more... )

On Wednesday I managed to finish the last of the revisions to my paper that the reviewers suggested and emailed it off to my co-author. He had already warned me that he would be traveling all last week with poor internet access, so he wouldn't be able to look at it before Monday, so this meant that I got the rest of the week off. (It says ( Read more... )

We bought a few more bags of concrete early this week, since we had run out the last time we worked on the earth cellar. I have no idea if it was the new bag, or if I was just feeling paranoid since the very last bag of the old batch we had done turned out to be to wet to use for wall building, and instead we used it to fill in some of the gap ( Read more... )

I am proud of myself--today it was 30 C in the shade, yet I managed to go out and accomplish stuff. lord_kjar and I managed to move the next 6 large rocks into place ready to concrete into the earth cellar walls ( Read more... )

The past few days have been a nice mix of relaxing and productive. We have put in 2 to 4 hours a day on the earth cellar. Adding such large stones to the walls means rapid progress in height with not so much time needed, and, assuming that we do a bit more today, we can easily get the wall on the up-hill side pretty much done before we depart for ( Read more... )