rented mixer, sand on left & clay on right
Cutting the fibers shorter w a handy and versatile power tool
Mix it all up and smear, throw, pat, daub...whatever technique you find helps the mud plaster to adhere to the 'slip straw' wall.
Slip straw is thinner straw-bale like construction with added mud (sand/clay mix). Mine is 6 inches thick and wont insulate like an 18"thick strawbale wall, but...hey, it's just a workshop space. 12ft by 16 ft built four years ago and finallly getting plastered over, yay!
If you choose this construction method I recommend you get some help and feed them and love them, check out these cuties
These laddies were indispensable
Oh what a dazzling spring day! to tie up a loose end on my acre, enjoying the company of friends and feeling in my heart-of-hearts the abundance that comes so naturally to the body each day. Furthermore, I am feeling that the wealth and mystery of this human mind can definitely and positively be trained to be exquisitely happy. Today i would describe this process as striving to have just the right degree of reverence for (and just as important, detachment from) the diverse phenomenal events and actional expressions of this world. Then, by training the mind with gratitude & reverence, shoot it out at just such an angle toward the horizon on the landscape, propel the mind with squinty eyed concentration beyond the scope of the gateway senses and mind's observation and reduction/analysis and its possible, just every bit possible that you will be visited by a feeling of serenity that is nothing short of humankind's greatest secret and best option for maintenance in this day and age. transcendence, immanence the same: life joy, pain sorrow, death all fervently coupled in the ecstacy of now:) Praise to the Most High, Baba ki Jai!
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