Yesterday Troy Honeycutt, his assistant Ashley, and I put the canvas ger cover from Mongolia over the ‘yurt’ rafters, ring, and pantograph walls. It was too late to take pictures when we were done, but I snapped a few today.
Incredibly, as small as the cover’s package was, it unfolded to fit the home-made scaffolding like a glove on a hand.
The problem we had was consequent to not laying it out before pulling the cover over the ring and rafters. That haste meant that the door cut was on the opposite sing of the ring from the doorway. It took us much longer to spin the cover around than it did to pull it over.
But when it was done, the anything-but-waterproof tent was ‘up’!
I still have to tie and pull tight the seam strings and tweak quite a few of the rafter connections to the baby-gate wall and to the ring, not to mention cutting the tree branches that are visible through the canvas cover.
Tomorrow night the family hopes to have our first fire inside the building in order to see if the center hole works as chimney or if the smoke quickly chases us out of the ger. More anon!
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