by Earl | Nov 10, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut
We’re back from another productive, though short, visit to the property. No major setbacks, no big delays, no smashed windows. Our first little Quonset hut house is coming along! The primary goal for this trip was to get the last three trapezoid windows...
by Earl | Oct 25, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut
We had a great mid-October construction trip to the Quompound, complete with our friends Leigh and Brian stopping by in their Airstream trailer. If there’s anything that rivals a Quonset hut for curvaceous sheet metal grooviness, it could only be an Airstream....
by Earl | Oct 12, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut
Last week we were back at the property and continued our progress on the Headquarters building. We were there from October 5th-9th. The “big progress” from this trip mainly involved the end wall of the Headquarters building. We got a few other things done...
by Earl | Sep 25, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut, Workshop Hut
I’ve been wanting a drone for a while, and we hadn’t really been talking about it or anything, and then Eric totally surprised me with it! Ours is a DJI Phantom 3 Standard. It was a little tricky to set up, but now that everything is connected (drone,...
by Earl | Sep 23, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut, Side Windows
Finally! We finally got our side windows installed in the Headquarters building! These side windows have probably been the biggest challenge yet of our Quonset hut build. We were at the property for a long weekend, with four full work days, just Eric and me. We must...
by Earl | Aug 30, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut, Side Windows
This post is mainly about getting the side windows installed in our Quonset hut, but there are some Other Really Great Things that happened on our most recent visit to the Quompound, as well! On our previous site visit we had installed our first of six side window...
