Winter Coming...

A couple weeks ago Ben went up solo while I stayed home studying. It was a cold weekend, and I was hoping Ben would take up the offer of our neighbor to sleep in her extra bedroom, but he was determined to stick it out. My genius husband found a clever way to be warm. His first attempt was to create a plastic bubble (yes, yes, "The Boy In the Plastic Bubble")... He built a wooden frame within the house and covered it in plastic. Since we now have electricity at the shed, he snaked a long extension cord through the hole in the door (where the lock will go) and plugged in our electric portable radiator.

We had moved the tent inside the house the weekend before and he consolidated all our living quarters into a compact space within the bubble .


Ben tells me during the day the bubble was warmer than the outside temperature, though not WARM warm. That night, however, the temperature dropped dramatically and he ended COLD for most of the night.

The next night he pulled the big air mattress out of the tent and deflated it (it takes up the whole tent and it's hard to zip up with it in there). He covered the tent with 2 blankets to insulate, put the radiator inside the tent with him, put one sleeping bag inside the other, and zipped up the tent and himself. He created an igloo which was as warm as a sauna. He slept warm as a bug in a rug.

How cute is that?

That weekend he taped the floor to indicate the walls that will be our next project. Below are the ghosts of the walls to be. Looks lilliputian.

Above is the bathroom on the far left, the laundry "nook" on the near left, and part of the bedroom/shelf space on the right.

This is the bedroom. Just enough for a bed. And a little closet in the far corner.



...Just in case you forgot what the house looks like. The ladder in front of door on the right is our present mode of entry. The hay is insulating the grass seed which we scattered, hoping there would be time for some germination before winter really sets in.