Home Sweet Home

It is going to be a while before I post again. the last 2 weeks have gone by so fast. We have been working from sun up until sundown on our house. I wish that I could show you more pictures but as it is I am running out of time. Tommorrow is our Move up day, the day that we move all of the stuff that we are going to be using for the next 4 weeks. Our house is finished, well, for the most part. It's livable anyway. I am very excited about living in a house that I have built and wired! We move back down on July 15 from now until then the only communication that we have is through snail mail.

We worked on our house a total of 10 days! Here are some more pics of our finished jungle camp home. Not bad, Eh?!

Day 5

Day5 Stove, kitchen counters, and shower drainage pit





















Glad we got that done , all but the stove anyway

Day 4 Rain and Hail!

Now that the roof is on we start on the stove















We could get more work done if it didn't rain




















And even MORE work done if it didn't hail...




















Still the work must go on




















even with the rain and hail we got a lot done

Putting on the roof

More Jungle camp building...
Day 3
putting the roof up and testing out the loft to see if it is sturdy enough..















Once the roof was up we had to staple it down. That can get a bit tricky!




















that was an all day project!!

Day 2 of Jungle Camp building

Second day of building...
6:45 am Julie is working on the ladder to our loft

I am working on the loft cutting of the long poles.

We had some help from some of the guys. they are helping us put up some of our ridge poles.

I am tying on the last of our ridge poles. The top or our house is 14 feet high.

Amanda, my roommate and I, are putting on our ridge poles. 30 inches apart seems about right.

By the end of the day we had our loft built and all of our rafter poles on. Tommorrow we put up the roof!!

First Day of Jungle Camp Building

Well, the first day of Jungle camp building was a long one. Our alarms went of at 5 am. We packed our lunch, gathered our tools and headed off to our site. we put in 13 1/2 hours that day and got much accomplished. Check it out...

6 am we headed up to our building site.













2 hours later we had our first wall up.



















here are my two roomates digging holes and putting in poles. and me notching for our loft.

End of the Day.. we have all of our main support poles up and part of our loft on.

Jungle Camp Preparation

We have started our jungle camp building For those of you who don't know Jungle Camp is a time in the training here at NTM when we design and build our own house then we live in them for four weeks. It is a time of preparation, patience and STRESS. We have 2 weeks to build our house and 1 day to pack all the things that we will need for the next four weeks.

My roomates and I have been planning our Jungle camp house for months now and the building has finally begun. Here are some pictures of our site and the preparation.


Here is the site
















Site Clean up... racking the leaves

Sorting our poles...