Earth Day every day...

Today we drove up to Plattsburgh, NY and went to the Earth Day open house at Earthwood Building School in West Chazy. Twice a year, they open their house up to the interested public. They give tours and talk about how the buildings were built, how the building work environmentally, big stones, solar electricity and so on.

Despite all our prior research and plans, we had begun to wonder if cordwood masonry was going to be a building method that we would like living in. I read about the Earthwood open house and suggested to Wendy that we go check it out and see a house that is lived in.

We took Quinn to Grandma Lana's for the day. It didn't seem fair to pack her up for a six hour car round-trip car ride and I wanted to be free to focus on what the Roys were saying without wondering where Quinn was. We took Emmet with us, being that he is still very Mama-centric.

We got to Earthwood around 11am and joined the tour (Rob Roy told us to remember where you came in and you can hop out when we get back around to this part). We saw their house (which turned out to be smaller than I expected from the photos I had seen) and bunch of the outbuildings they have built over the years. We heard about the big stones, living roofs, cordwood masonry, and the like. By time we got back around, it was 2:30! Time flies when you are having fun, I s'pose.

We are definitely down with the cordwood after the visit, and I am psyched to get up there and take one of the cordwood workshops. Now we need to get going on the items for this year.