Mud for mortar

Monday, the task was to work on completing interior walls. Houses are built with adobe brick, sun dried, not fired. The exterior walls were in place and inside walls already had a few courses of brick. So here is how the day looks:
1. Get the bricks into the house. They are stacked down the hill from the house. So a chain line, handing up the bricks.
2. Two members begin digging the hard earth. Once loosened, water is poured into a sort of "mud hole". Since the earth is hard and lumpy, this water/earth must the broken down and mixed. How to do it? By wading in and mixing with your feet. Boots have been provided for this.
3. Mud is dumped into trays and handed up to the brick workers. Slop the mud on the wall and put the bricks into place.
Presto! A nice wall. Hard work in the hot sun, 95F.



WALKING THROUGH THE FIELDS, WE GET THE FIRST
VIEW OF OUR HOUSES (FAR BACK) 

MIXING THE MUD

INSIDE THE HOUSE: OUR BRICK WALL.

MID-MORNING REFRESHMENTS WERE CARRIED
TO THE HOUSES BY NEPALESE WOMEN