Deb, You ain't gonna believe this, I didn't, but I have actually seen one
of these weird houses. Our youngest son met this kid in school who lived
WAY out in the boonies. One day he went there to visit. On the way home
he told us there was a house down the road, ie: goat track, from Eric's
house that was built out of firewood. We told him he was nuts, nobody
builds houses out of firewood. The next time we went to pick him up there
we said we wanted to see this house SOOOOOO we drove even further down the
goat track and, sure enough, there's this house, built just like the one in
the picture. BUT, we still didn't believe it at first, we thought it was
stone till we stopped and took a really close look. Damnedest thing I ever
did see. I sure didn't think there were any others. Of course we also
have the fella who built his house out of straw bales. "I'll huff and I'll
puff and I'll blow your house down !!!!!!" Ruth
At 8:25 PM -0400 4/19/06, deb Bledsoe wrote:
>Hi Ruth and Ralph and Chrif and all y'all,
>
>(I'm allowed to say y'all now that I'm living in KY.)
>
>Anyway, Rudy is on track, I am living in a former mud hippie den. ;)
>Actually, the organization I'm working for was, in a former life, intensely
>interested in promoting alternative, natural, local, or salvaged building
>materials. My house is a 1200 sf cordwood, built with white oak salvaged
>after a tornado on-site in the late 70's. I think there is the possibility
>that the house was actually featured in one of the foxfire articles. It was
>all hand sawed, and the 2-man saw is hanging on the wall. Big sucker.
>
>It probably isn't appropriate in this warm humid climate - most of the old
>old cordwoods I've heard about were built in cold dry climes by Finns or
>Swedes. My daughter observed that they ought to be building them in
>Mississippi anyway, what with all the ruined timber on the ground down there.
>
>You can see more about cordwood by visiting:
>http://www.cordwoodmasonry.com/Cordwood.html
>
>There is a picture of my house on our website:
>http://www.a-spi.org
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Ruth Barton
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