Road and Drive

With the rainy season coming up we decided to go ahead and put in the drive and improve the road to our land.  We filled in the trench for the power/water/phone lines, and graded the road and drive.  Then 4" of road fill was added to give us all weather access. This will come in handy soon.  In a couple of weeks, we are going to have some extra traffic.  With the adobe walls going up it is time to put in our fireplace.  The Southwest Solar Adobe School is scheduling a "How to build your Rumford Fireplace"  class with our home as the class room.  Jim Buckley, Mr. Rumford Fireplace himself, is flying in from Seattle to conduct the class.  Jim is going to build our fireplace while he instructs the class and Joe Tibbets, Director of Southwest Solar Adobe, and I will be Jim's helpers.  This will be a lot of fun and we will get a great Rumford fireplace built by the Master.