Things are going UP!

We're getting some elevation on our home site.  Guides for the crew laying up adobes, called both "speed leads" or "story poles" are being put up in preparation for the construction of our adobe walls.  The first coarse of adobes are "fully stabilized" or waterproof required by the adobe construction codes.  All the rest of our adobe are simply mud blocks.  The story poles are placed at the corners of two exterior walls or the intersection of an interior wall and an exterior wall.  They make it easier for the adoblero to make straight level walls.  Of course simultaneously the brick floors are being completed and the electrician is laying in the wiring and installing outlet boxes between adobe courses.  It's like a well oiled machine. . . most of the time.  The walls will start to go up next week.