Build An Earth Room Anywhere and Start your Own Resort, You May Win the Olympics at Crustmas!
At thanksgiving they used to say that the pioneers invented the log house, actually it was invented by the Indians. I once read in Reader's Digest about a Ohioan in the South who was digging up his field with an earth machine, and decided to make a big hill of dirt. Then he realized it would be good in the snow to slide down the side of this behemoth at Christmas, started his own winter resort and got rich! I saw this room built by the indians, it has the door as usual, and then the house is actually a wide cone of earth with a rounded top. This was where they must have dug down and put up the room and then piled all the dirt up there. This is like the rooms they dig out of the side of a slope with usual earth movers. Wood has the "astounding" R value (for insulation) of R32 but these rooms have low or no heating or cooling costs whatsoever (except on the outside wall, but this can be sealed, also) because the temperature in the earth is almost constant whatever the weather. This conical room has been invented so it's unnecessary to have just a room where the slope is, no heating and cooling, and when you marry a mountain woman, you marry the whole mountain. And it would make a great slope up North. It has no heating bills and takes up just the room for the pile of earth, with the rooms inside, and without the extra rent for the Lodge. This is like the WhorlRwe tribe, that old tribe near here, like me and lots of us, they climb up on the roof, and say Where The WhorlRWe!?
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They've added fat enhancers to lunch so we'll buy more. What I like about this is it makes me think I've eaten more when I have no weight!
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