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Our third day was not as productive as I had hoped it would be. We had some rain the previous night and the cold air of the day seemed to tax all of our efforts to move forward. That said, we got all the walls straightened and weedwhacked to a point where we could address the next steps of the job.

We decided to take a different approach to the construction process so that we can get back on schedule and actually get to plastering by the end of the week. We will be addressing certain aspects of the job like hanging roofing felt over exposed wood and hanging J-metal for the plaster by doing it only in small areas so that each person can learn the process, but we will not do it over the entire structure. We will use the current building as a teaching platform, but will use the building created in April as our plaster site. That will allow us to speed through some of the more simple aspects of the construction as well as the more complex, in a manner that keeps us on track.

Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures from day three now as my wife, who normally takes the pictures I use, was on a school field trip with my daughter all day. I hope to get some good shots of our progress today.

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Andrew Morison is a licensed contractor specializing in straw bale and green construction. He has shown thousands of people how to build their own straw bale projects through his comprehensive series of instructional straw bale, concrete foundation, and plastering DVDs. You can check these out at http://www.LearnStrawBale.com.

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