OK, just wanted to do a mini check-in before we launch into the week because I’ve got a good feeling about it…..a REALLY good feeling about it!  The forecast is calling for another hot, sunny week in Rainier and we are going to run with it like you’ve never seen!

We got in two full work days last week and they were very productive, to be sure, but then it rained again for three….THANK YOU WEATHER GODS!  We all had colds last week so it really was lovely that the rain provided us an opportunity to rest and recover from the brunt of that, no stress.

Linda came to help us on Wednesday, just before the rain, so we laid a record row and a half with two mason jar windows and both blue centre dots (Skye vodka bottles) on the side walls for the 5-pointed stars.  I am really starting to see the corbelling starting now which is thrilling!   It is so miniscule at the beginning that you start to wonder if you will just be laying row upon row upon row upon row forever until you reach the heavens.  But it’s official, we’ve got some dome action starting FOR SURE now!

Today being Mother’s Day was very relaxed.  Although it was the official start of the hot/sunny, we took it easy and I let Mama Meggan set the tone of the day.  Didn’t think it would be cool to wake up and say, “Happy Mother’s Day, here’s your shovel, let’s GO!”  She works hard enough every other day.  So instead we had a lovely mimosa-laced brunch on the back deck and while she enjoyed some beautiful time spent with her beloved little cherub Cyrus and planted lettuce in the garden, I went out and did some prep work for our pivotal week coming up.  I straightened barbed wire, cut bag for our next row, re-set the compass chain and filled our trailer of Earth.  Yesterday I levelled the Earth around the dome so our scaffolding would be sturdy.  We are READY!!

So here we are as of today and I’m going to update again on the weekend so you can see what magic takes place this week.  Oh, and by the way, we scored some ladder scaffolding and a cement mixer from Meggan’s awesome friends Giselda and Ariel, woo hoo!

Let us see what magic unfolds….