Back to Terrapin

After two weeks we returned to Terrapin Farms, back to catering to our dear chicken friends' needs.We split a lot of bamboo, splintered our hands and got into making our dome structures.

Something I forgot about earlier was how we bent bamboo using a blow torch. Suddenly it came back to me today as we started the long bamboo procedure. Today we were told that along with the journal and the blog, we need to choose a skill that we want to better in and excel and basically hone ourselves. 

Today, along with the normal old bamboo, we also got ourselves some young, green bamboo shoots, straight from the farm itself. The green ones we are using for a raised platform for the structures that need to be on an elevation. Also they're real smooth and cut like butter, so this along with the normal bamboo makes our life a bit easier. 

After lunch we proceeded to making these domes. Now each crew gets two designs to make. Anyway we started with the inner skeleton of the dome. We used the technique that we'd used in BMS and weaved bamboo together to be made into a cylinder. The vertical lines we made with brown bamboo and the horizontal with green bamboo so that it would be easier to bend it into  a circular form. With the correct measurements we managed to this. Also for the top we are making a basket. This will come on top of the cylinder and we will interweave it together to get our dome structure. 

We looked at the other groups' progress and observed their technique as well as gave them feedback. 

It all ended with us studying our surroundings and doing some journalling. Finding a pattern which we could use later. Anything which interests us. Basically finding our zen.  

It's good to be back.

Today we worked on our structures some more.Hope to finish two designs by tomorrow. 

We completed the skeleton for the smaller dome.This will be the one that gets fired. The bigger one won't be. We also are going to complete the walls of a shed over there.