Hello all,

Sherri looking at our new pond back in 2009. Buying land made the whole thing a lot more serious, if no more immanent.

The point of this site is to assemble and share some of what I have learned about earth shelter design and construction (as well as my extrapolations), in addition to journaling the design and construction process of my own earth sheltered home.   My wife, Sherri, is a big part of that; so I just hooked her up with a log in so she can post also.  Hopefully she will find time between all the other tasks that already keep her very busy.

We have not really got started on the construction yet, so things are pretty quiet right now.  We are really somewhere in early phase II development with the architect and structural engineer and I am still waiting on getting drawings that look like what I have in mind.  Working with an architect after getting so far on your own is a lot like taking one step back so you can take two steps forward.  In the mean time, I will probably try to catch you up on the back story of earlier steps that we have already taken.

I have not told any of my friends about this site yet (because the content is not ready), but when it does get going and my list of subscribers are not all living with me, I hope it can be a little interactive.

I am sure you are not all as interested in the technical aspects as I am.  Some are probably just interested in following the story as we build this crazy house.  The Technical aspects will mostly be cordoned off in the Tech Notes area.  The story is under the blog…  If there is some particular aspect you are curious about, let me know and I will write about that also.  

For now, it is a nice evening outside, so I am headed out there.