Last Week

We’ve been working on adding “sticky mud” to the ceilings of the domes to cover the metal geodesic frames. We stand on tables and apply the mud, sometimes above our heads!


It’s different from working on the walls, standing on the ground. I feel like we work very carefully, and we really help each other by passing buckets of mud and water around so that everyone can stay standing on his/her table and continue working on a particular area of the ceiling.
We leave the "sticky mud" work with little mud decorations in our hair.


Adam:


Efrat:


Me:


Awesome pose with Efrat and Neta:



We also had a pottery lesson that I loved very much:


We learned how to build a clay oven, all the technical details about the layers of insulation and thermal mass. And then we made pizzas in the taboon in the "eco-kef" park here:


There was a whole day spent learning about irrigation systems, and then we split into three groups and each group put together a little model system using recycled irrigation pipes.



The evenings and mornings have been wonderfully chilly lately. The other night I very happily wore a sweater for the first time in a million years!