Storms

Last night finally brought the rain. It hadn´t rained for about two or three days and it really made up for it yesterday.  Took out the power for a few hours in fact. That was all well and fine until the sun totally went down, and then, the hunt for candles began. After finally finding some, the majority of us sat around the kitchen and played some games. The rain had stopped by the time I went to sleep but I had trouble comfortably sleeping last night for whatever reason.  Today as an early start and a long work day.  Work on the clay oven is coming along well, and today brought a ton of progress.  The structure of the oven is earth bags, which are simply woven fiber bags, filled with a mixture of dirt clay and gravel, layed flat and pounded and stacked to the height desired. with all of those in place, we began to put the outer layer on the front of the oven which is made up of empty glass bottles and cement.  Everything utilized in the process is in an attempt to use less cement and take advantage of materials already on hand.  I was impressed with how much progress was made today on it and though 4 of us worked almost only on that project, it is definitely possible for it to be completed within a few days.  I did neglect some of the plants I have been trying to nurse back to health so I will have to make it a point to do that tomorrow. In addition, I had wanted to clean the bathrooms today, and did not get around to that. Which is causing suffering now because this computer is right near a bathroom, and it literally smells as though there is a nice pile of shit right under my feet. Dirty hot human poo. so gross. You are not able to flush toilet paper here, so there are bags in all the bathrooms full of just dirty tp, so that is no doubt what is causing this smell that i am having a tough time getting over. Oh well. Sorry for complaining. I hope things are going well in your lives those who are reading this sad little blog. More updates to come as interesting things happen.