We Built A 1-Ton Wall In Our Home 

You Both look great!!! Jim sets a great example of how a man is supposed to love and cherish his Wife,,, you both are beautiful folks,,,, have a great week!!!!

Lots of hard work! I’d be a little concerned with your two posts on the edge of the stairwell. You can buttress the sides all you want, but you need to secure that stairwell wall…

“To love another is to see the face of God,” Victor Hugo. You two glow and send energy to your viewers.

You can tell me to STFU but you need a quad or tractor. Helps with hauling dirt, saves your back as you age 💝

A great project is not how fast to complete it but one that is of quality and thorough research and study. Great projects that I see takes hours of study and questions

Please please a garden tour

I wish you had a community of RU-vidrs that could help you

I love how you just keep plugging along in spite of any setbacks, I know it's got to be disappointing to reschedule the next project but I have to say I'm really happy to see that rock cob wall going up. It's definitely going to make things safer moving around during the rest of your build. Hopefully you'll get some good news about the excavator arriving this week and you can get the next phase underway, fingers crossed for you. So nice to see all the various plants and cactus blooming and the hear the birds singing. Have a happy memorial day and a great week you two! ❤

Your pressure-treated 4 X 4 posts will most likely crumble from dry-rot being down in the cement.

Make a retaining wall starting down below, going 6 or 8 feet high, with concrete and rebar. The internal storage area might survive with those specialized plastic flexible tubes or whatever it is called. The outside the door and a support beam, that can easily fail with plenty of rain.

I'd like to see your community come on a work day to help your build. Anyone near there please help out! Thanks.

I’m kinda surprised I don’t see more vertical wind turbines on AZ homesteads. I mean solar is main obviously but wind certainly would seem like a great supplement when the sun isn’t shining.

Should take the wooden form down before you install the cobb wall. Over time the wood will rot and you'll have a week spot in the wall.

Hi family..thats the 2 people, the 2 dogs X the birds and the garden the home,the cellar..must I go on ? Miss you all. Me and my pal Moodich .stay safe be well..from Australia ☆

those columns resting so close to the edge of that stairway cliff... just something to think about

Oh yes! A garden tour would be a wonderful video.

Just a thought.. On the truss load to the columns. Maybe add blocks under the trusses to the sides of the columns to act like jack studs..

🌹 🌸 🏵 Yes, We all would love a tour of your garden Jess. 🌵 🐦 🐦‍⬛ the wall you built is very cool. Good job to jim on his cob wall and framing. You guys rock!!

I definitely understand the allergy situation! Allergies are darned if you do take something, darned if you don't. The only stuff that works for me is the stuff that knocks me on my butt! I hope you guys find something that works for you, and if you do please share this valuable knowledge! I'm begging you lol 🤣 (allergy tears). Give my best to Crew, he's such a good doggo and I know he's not in every video but I super appreciate every video he's in (although I think I understand why he's not in all of them).

Building and finishing your house videos please please please

I am concerned that you have concrete in contact with wood. Never works out well for me.

Hi Jessica a couple of suggestions. Drink Tea for allergies. Stinging nettles, Rosemary, Turmeric, Licorice root, Ginger were suggested. I found these on the Very Well site. I think a Netty pot once a day may help. Salted water. Good luck.

Looks like she has some pretty flowers there. Lots of hard work. Thanks for allowing us to be a part of it. Slow but sure. Makes me want to get out and do some things that need to be done.

Y'all are great. Jim I wish you would have loaded fewer rocks on the wheelbarrow. You need to take better care of your back. Do you hear that? The homestead relies on your strong back. Please don't strain yourself. Please. I know your mom would say the same thing to you, if she could. 💜 She'd be so proud of you.

Jim, seriously, I am sorry for what I am going to say, I have no idea what you are thinking, I have done research on these tubes, tou are killing me and all I can do is watch 😢😢😢😢😢😢

My Wife and I are thinking about getting a 10 x10 green house to protect some outside plants when bad weather hits. We live in Waco Texas and we get a lot of different weather year around. So I would love to see a tour of your garden and I will share the video with my Wife so she can see all the great work you have done to protect all of your beautiful plants. ❤ You both work so hard and it really shows. Thank you for sharing all of your videos. I always look forward to watching all of your weekly videos. All the best to you and your family 😊 Rob.

Watching From South Carolina a day late.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Hello my dearest couple. Those 🌵 are very beautiful. May God continue blessing you all ❤

Eco walls like that are recommend to be water proofed

You should wrap those posts with water proofing. PT will rot out in concrete. 😏🙂 You’ll should also install knee bracing on the building. I wouldn’t have taken the braces out yet with the wind you get. Ever watch how a box kite works? Buildings can do the same. 😊

A garden tour, and what kind of birds frequent your new feeder?

Yes, I want a garden tour. It's so pretty!

Looks like you are still missing some of the stringers/separators on one of your roof sides, are you still waiting on supplies being available? Are you going to get those bonus water collection surfaces ready before the rains?

Eating local honey is the absolute best way to help your body combat seasonal allergies ❤

Yes please 🙏 would ❤ a garden tour.

Can you draw a diagram how the earthen energy tubes work? Really interested. The flowers on the chola cacti in red! I’ve only seen yellow flowers. The orange prickly pear flowers are beautiful and the plants look healthy. I have mesquite trees and I collect the beans from the branches to make mesquite flower, they also make a dark look alike coffee. Love the Cobb work, I’m looking forward to experimenting to make a bench and shower wall. I have learned so much from both of you. Right on with a tour of the garden! And the dome. ❤😊

Allergies... Try locallly made natural honey. Has helped us a bit in the Northeast 😊

I would love to see what you have growing. And it's so nice to see all of the little birds. I'm sure they appreciate the buffet 😊

You guys are doing great!!! Keep it up while your young cause as you age it gets harder and harder, so do it all now while your young.

............G'day, progress continues, upward and onward. Cheers and God bless, Malcolm.

We havent seen inside your beautiful dome for a while . I hope it is looking good and liveable

Would love to see drawings or plans of the build. What the end product will look like.

Please show us a drawing or plans of what your house project will be like

Garden tour sounds awesome! I really enjoyed when you used to put the names of the birds, animals and plants on screen. Super cool!

That cactus is beautiful! Would love a garden tour.

hey Jess! garden tour plz, would love to hear about your plans...kindest regards...ps you are awesome!

The active ingredient in benadryl is dypenhydramine and you can ask a pharmacist for it ,and a bottle of 100 is way cheaper, and it is just as good

Dang, that is looking good. I love watching your channel and learning interesting ways to live sustainably . I especially love Jess' garden tips

Thumbs up for cob walls!!!😊🎉❤

Put some rebar stacks through the ground it will give it more support looking good , I think you should just get the tracter from your neighbour cost you less money it might take time but it will get done before that guy comes

Consumption of local honey helps deter alergys, at least that is what my granny always said when I asked about her hives. 🐝🍯🐝

Hi Jess and Jim, good to see these updates. I am looking forward to your cooling being installed and later, to see how it works for you. I have seen several RU-vid’s on this style of cooling but still not convinced. I am thinking outside the box a bit with it though, that you could use a heat chimney as the outlet vent for the hotter air. I recall seeing one of those chimneys in an old house made from mud. The fellow made it out of 44gallon drums and painted 2/3 Matt black. It vented at ceiling level then out through the chimney. I used to think it was odd but in summer that kept the heat down too, not just the mud walls insulating. It made me wonder why we still persist with timer framed walls as exterior walls. Stay safe and healthy and enjoy life.

Of course we want a garden tour!

Local honey has really helped I put it in my organic green tea. Every morning. Last year my allergies were really bad. We buy honey by the gallon. And it never goes bad.

I would love to see a garden tour Jess, and how the oya setup is doing.

my fav couple, God bless you both

Outstanding work! Doing the "Go Jim" dance right now!

I would like to see her garden wall more closely.

China is getting into permaculture, I hear that they are planting a few billion trees, in their desert. Planting trees and bushes, are ways to hold water, in a desert. I would go with berries. Elderberry starts, takes off quickly, and quick is what you want. Underground cisterns are common in Africa, where they have made great progress. Imagine the flora and fauna, that would show up?

Second hand used roofing iron is a lot cheaper to buy most of the time. Silicone with a caulking gun could be used to fill any existing holes in used roofing iron. (If it can be found and building inspectors or inspections are not a problem. Often the side that was facing down when previously used looks newer and has less corrosion if used facing up.)

Please explain how the house is going to involve the root sellar. Keep going. Can't wait to see the finished product..❤

Rock crusher would be an asset gravel walk ways would be a plus but that’s another project

I've been wondering, are you guys living in the dome now?

yes please gar den tour.

I take NAC and glycine. I have horrid allergies, especially at work lol. No but truly at work with electronic dust and air from day I suffer. I just added Methylene blue, only 5 drops working up to higher dose. You both get plenty of D3 being outside but K 2 helps greatly. I used to take medication for fibromyalgia, now with these vitamins I am off all medicine and I am 63. I have jyst this year, after years of having given up, because I hurt so. I now have a garden again. Jess, the Methylene blue and lions main help so much with the fatigue and brain fog, I also use the Methylene blue with vit C on my skin for sun block. It is worth investing. ❤🙏🙏🙏

Garden tour please!! 🙏 ❤

yes.. put me in for the garden tour, TY

Good Morning. How you doing today? Looks like everything is coming together just sweet and fine. I guess you guys have a great day and God bless both of you.❤❤❤❤❤

On the Central Coast of California I have experienced excessive allergies and congestion. Thankfully from the added rain we have experienced for the garden yet unfortunately there grow a lot of weeds. I've noticed more new weeds that haven't here in the past 20 years and no natives. I feel this is attributes to not being use to this level. I usually take a T 3-4 X a day of raw local honey. It must be local to your area so ingest the natural pollen around you. I do like it with some lemon and heavy cayenne or ginger on the tough days. I hope you feel better. Love watching your process.

How about a garden tour?

A garden tour would be awesome ❤️❤️🥰🥰

Garden tour sounds good.

Hey Jess and Jim, I love what you guys done there. You got a good idea of building that wall over top of that centre entrance so nobody fall over and all that beautiful plants your wife makes putting out she does very nice. May God keep on blessing you too out there God sakes keep safe out here.

I love those beautiful Cactuses, and your house is going to be amazing 👏 🤩

Good to work slowly but surely 🎉🎉. You guys are a great team xx ❤

You keep up with those observations and we will have to start calling you Sherlock.

That wall is a fall waiting to happen!!! It 's so low! I have fallen over walls that short and if there had been a drop I would have been in a bad accident! You won't always be young or able to get around so while your building think about that!

I just love your videos. Look at all the progress you are making. Keep it going we are seeing incredible progress ❤❤❤

Yes definitely have a garden tour descriptions and intentions of what you want to do with the plants . I'm here in Connecticut and whenever I built decks and set up footings for a building we had to go down 40 to 45" in the ground for any Frost heaves. Not telling you what to do but I was concerned about those two posts being on top of the soil and not in it. Through the years of cold and hot Weathers the soil will expand and contract, as you know, my concern is that it's going to move and settle down into the ground . Will your structure be stable enough?

I was taken back a bit while watching you pull your gorilla cart of cob to the new home. The background looked like you had real cliffs and canyons. But when the camera changed angles, your “canyon vistas” were not that big. But your excavations are creating an interesting landscape. I like it. Keep it up, you will have a canyon for a back yard.

I would never drink Iced tea in any jug but they sure are good containers.

Why leave the wood forms in place. They will just rot.

Garden tour

It's great seeing how y'all are getting things put together. This is exciting.

There’s always another project to work on when one gets stalled, isn’t there?!

Local raw honey each day in your coffee and/or tea is one of the best thing you can do for allergies.

Honey is supposed to help with allergies, there are two types of benadryl. One is traditional which is sleepy time the other is time released that you take in day, that will probably be what you need! I would love a garden tour! You are quite creative Jess! ❤ would love to see a video on the earth tubes! You both make me tired looking how much you toil! Amazing you both are!!! ❤️

Yes please‼️Spring into Summer Season Garden Update❣️

Brother you are a one man show.

Are you going to add a rocket heater to heat the pole barn?

You need some good rock music to work to; try getting some big speakers, play A-HA, the old group from Norway, it's a great band!

Lovely cactus blooms.!

Is this wall your building part of the original plan or is it likely to take up room you didn't want to lose?

Hi guys hope all is well Haven’t seen a new video for the last week so just wondering if everything is okay?

Jess could help you make it Bottle wall out of your Wall that would look great.

Beautiful flowers in your garden and even the cactus flowers look great. Birds obviously enjoying all the seeds you put out for them.

A bit unsure what the completed design is supposed to look like, additionally they seem a bit scattered going from what appears to be incomplete parts of a single house build? Or is something else is in play? Confusing.

You left the form boards in there? They will rot and feed termites. Won't they?

How is Crew?? Miss seeing him. I have a very old dog. He has a hard time walking.

It's looking great! Don't worry about the delay,there is always something to do, you guys know that.Keep up the good work!