Ari digging into his clay pit. Because it rained during the week, the pit had a lot of water in it.

This is Ari looking into his drawings for the wiring configuration. These are the first electrical boxes to be put in, so he's nervous and being extra careful.

And there they go! Being the sides of the main door, we will have a bunch of switches on both sides. In fact, in mid-process we figured out that we needed more! We made adjustments and noted them in Ari's chart.

Terri cobbing the left side of the door. It's hard to see here but she is making a tall niche for the sculptures, and the conduits are run behind them in the wall. Conduits are basically space-savers for the electric wires, to be put in much later.

Another shot of Ari's electric work. The conduit that runs around the window was originally supposed to simply go up the wall between the two windows shown here, but then we already built that section and made openings for counter tops and such, so this was the most effective solution and much preferrable one to un-doing and then re-doing the work.

During the week our sepctic engineer came and dug two 5-feet deep holes on our land. And out came very yellow, almost golden clay! It's somewhat hard to see in this picture, though. We're going to test this to see if we can incorporate this for the earth plaster.

Here's the second hole, this one with a very light gray clay. This is pretty exciting to find different kinds of clay so close to home.

Looking into one of the holes. It's hard in the picture, but you can see that the soil turns gray half way down.