view from south (Wednesday afternoon)

Bluff:  A day in the life…

7AM – awake to 13 different alarm clocks and the sunrise over the bluff.

7:30AM – egg & cheese breakfast sandwich, cereal, and juice while preparing delicious pb & h sandwich

8-9ish – load up 3 bluff vehicles & depart for 25-minute commute to home site

9-10ish – discuss the goals & tasks for day, unload & set up site

10:30 – greet 8 pick-up trucks of Navajo Nation construction crew, give tour of site, pass on our knowledge of SIP construction process, change the way a culture builds homes

Navajo Nation builders exploring house

morning – divide & conquer

12 – stomaches grumbling, start looking at clock every 10 minutes

1ish – lunch of pb&h, apple (toss apple core to Bob the dog), carrots, clif bar

awhile later – back to work, re-assess today’s goals

2ish – say hello to neighbor jane as she checks in

2:30 – yell at dogs to go away

3:00 – start thinking about what bath house crew is cooking tonight

3:30 – break 2nd drill bit, go on hunt for new supplies

4:00 – throw drill down in disgust as all batteries are dead

4:30 – is it dinner yet?

5:00 – clean-up and “finish” goals for the day

5:30ish – evening commute with sunset over Monument Valley, sharing the road only with the occasional cow and the rest of the bluff crew, while laughing at the radio traffic report for SLC

6:ish – gather around table for delicious home-cooked meal (tonight, pot roast!) and recount of day’s activities & mis-haps, check out eachother’s bruises, burns, and cuts

post-dinner – scramble for showers, baking of desserts, evening walks, light Anasazi Architecture reading, e-mail catch-up, phone calls home, gathering around stove/fire, guitar serenades, bluff song rehearsal

9ish-12ish – occasional group meetings, begging for back rubs, check for pictures of yourself on Bluff blog, collapse in bed (somebody turn off the light!)

Judson & Trent calculating & plotting

Roofing crew: Tami, Haley, and Hanna

Erin, Mallory & Bryce installing soffit & rain screen on studio

-Erin & Lindsay