The letters are finished and ready to go to Spain

Filled the pallets with straw for insulation. Not much to say here, just posting to show everybody. It’s part of the process. Goes in pretty easy, put the straw in the top and shove it down with a stick. Couple of times the pallet boards popped open, but was pretty easy to reattach. I got the straw on Facebook marketplace, because it was half the price I would pay at tractor supply. But it’s completely filled with goat heads, very prickly, painful seed pods, I hope I don’t get a weed infestation from this. One bale of straw filled about 3 pallets, and only ended up needing 3 bales to fill the 11 pallets.

The 2x12 fascia which contains the living roof went up pretty quick.

Finished the plywood covering of the roof. For the trapezoids, from a single plywood panel, you can get two full pieces and two almost full pieces. So that is why you will see that I had to fill in some gaps. I put all those towards the back, where you won’t really see it. Otherwise, I would have had to use twice as many plywood panels. I essentially just measured the angle on one side, and took an oversized piece, placed it into position and marked underneath where it lies on the beam to get my cut line for the other side. I didn’t worry about the outer edge, left that overhanging, and after everything was in place, I routed the ends of with a straight flush trim router bit. That leaves an overhang due to the angle that you’re cutting at, so finished it with a round over bit. Working on sloped ground, no problem, just straighten out your ladder with some blocks. Next up, 2 x 12 fascia.

Stained the beams red and painted the plywood panels blue. A lot of measuring to make it fit, but eventually got the job done. You can get two triangles out of one 4 x 8 sheet.