[Cob] Stone Haven

[Janet Standeford]

Hi Scott,
Thank you for thinking of me and what I'll need to build this home. 
Sometimes I forget what it means to me because the focus is so much on 
what this will mean to others and their way of life.

I so much want to share that message. I think the battle is already won 
for us and we have simply to implement the tools at hand to make this 
way of life soar.

In spite of voices to the contrary, our current adobe code works very 
well if "we" step out of the box and simply relate to Building 
Departments that it is simply monolithic adobe and show them their own 
code on adobe.

Then we have the "green" building drive and the Governments desire to 
eliminate the carbon footprints on the planet.

Personally I think it would take one person with sight and verbal skills 
to tie all this together in front of Congress and the Senate to 
facilitate a National precedence for States to follow.

I welcome your input and would love to coordinate your time here with 
the time given by the kids from the Center and the older group.

This will go into the paper here so would also like to time it so you 
are here when it goes to press?

This can all be by your schedule. I want to get the foundation in place 
and make sure the bags, wire, barbed wire and straw are all here before 
you arrive so am looking at probably July or August which would also get 
us well out of the rainy seasons.

It sure would be nice to build a cob oven in the intended courtyard at 
the same time. We will be building a cob fireplace according to Rumford 
specs (the only difference is the fireplace will be shaped like the 
traditional cob fireplace and there will be a commissioned frame with 
tempered glass that the edges will be built to. The glass will have 
vents and will also be removable as desired.) and I'll have a mason come 
out to install the guts. I need to find everything used. I love recycling!!!

Two doors, about 14 large windows, any knobs for pull outs, etc are also 
needed. Oh, even rain catchment metal roofing and water pipes could be 
used as long as there are no rust spots.

I really need to cut and stack tree sections so they will dry evenly 
without cracking. These need doing within the next two or three months 
so they will have cured enough by July or August. It's white fir, which 
the Civil Engineer already approved. I can't even begin to do this by 
myself and there really should be several people here for that part of 
the project.

This part is difficult as the snow level rises though it does seem as 
though the snow will not be as overwhelming as usual this year.

I don't really have any place for anyone to sleep unless they wouldn't 
mind my really rustic conditions! I'm really understating this.

Let me know what parts of this you would like to work with and I will be 
grateful no matter what it is.