Bale Raising pictures

Elfrieda and I place the first bale.

Tina Therrien gives a talk about bale stacking.

Elfrieda's parents were among the volunteers at the bale raising.  Here they are hard at work.

Here's Ron tying some baling twine.

 My mother tying a bale.  Tying bales is a lot of work.

Elfrieda tying some twine.  She did very well considering she's 39 weeks pregnant!

My father places a bale.

Here's what the living room looked like after all the volunteers had gone home.

The LR from another angle.  Note that the windows and doors are covered from the outside.  What you're seeing is a bunch of Typar that Willy and John B used to cover the bales.  Eventually we'll build a frame and install some tarps with enough room in there to set up scaffolding; when that happens, the Typar will come off.  But until then, the Typar protects the straw from the elements.

The dining room and MBR.