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The finished house 23 years later. Blue sky above Bald Mt. behind the stuccoed house. A couple fruit trees on the right, obscuring the workshop, an artistically laid out produce garden in the foreground. The home has a semi-circular stair tower on the east side extending down to the basement & up to the bedroom. The whimsical windows in the tower took a little head scratching. I laid the foundation with cement blocks up to grade, then framed 4 curved sections with 20' 2"x6" studs after having the local power coop place a huge 20'x2' lodgepole pine on the footing in the basement. P. probably has photos of the process, I was too busy at the time. I remember feeling a bit of a buzz having all that come together. There is something about working with friends to accomplish a task, when things just flow, akin to being in the zone.

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The finished house 23 years later. Blue sky above Bald Mt. behind the stuccoed house. A couple fruit trees on the right, obscuring the workshop, an artistically laid out produce garden in the foreground. The home has a semi-circular stair tower on the east side extending down to the basement & up to the bedroom. The whimsical windows in the tower took a little head scratching. I laid the foundation with cement blocks up to grade, then framed 4 curved sections with 20' 2"x6" studs after having the local power coop place a huge 20'x2' lodgepole pine on the footing in the basement. P. probably has photos of the process, I was too busy at the time. I remember feeling a bit of a buzz having all that come together. There is something about working with friends to accomplish a task, when things just flow, akin to being in the zone.
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3/ This thread is mostly about homemade things, & some of the thoughts involved in the process.
When my good friend & next door tipi neighbor got engaged, he & his sweetie bought a piece of the ranch to build something more substantial on. They sketched their idea on some notebook paper & asked if I could build it. I had built lots of fence, a couple canoes, & pounded nails on my folks place, so I said sure, got some graph paper to work out some details, & got to it. Alt text descriptions.

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