So you want to build a straw-bale house?

They've been stuccoing. For. Months. Seven days a week. Granted that it's a big house, but still...

They make their own stucco, from native clay and sand mixed with chopped straw. Experimented till they got a mix that wouldn't wash off.

Seriously, I don't know why she's smiling. She usually isn't, by this time of the day.