Jack then covered Bathroom/Utility Yurt spire with "Ice and Water," which essentially is high tech felt paper with a sticky back. It's intended to really block the ice and water from reaching the plywood sheathing of the roof.

In the background is the spire on the studio Yurt. Again, it's six sided (both the Bathroom/Utility Yurt and the Studio Yurt are twelve sided). There's to be a little rectangular window at the center of each scallop.

The shape of the spire is determined by the height and the slope of the Yurt roof on which it is mounted. The height of each spire is computed to be 65% of the actual height of the roof on which it sits.

You've seen an image similar to this from back in the Fall of 2004 .

This is the point at which the Gallery connecting building (on the right) joins to the Oval Office connecting building. You'll note the cap that starts up the ridge on the Gallery.

On the left you can see a slight rise in the shingles as they wrap up and go over to the Bathroom/Utility Yurt roof. The roll in the roof is necessary to create the valley.

Here's Rick trimming a shingle to fit up against the valley. He is being very careful operating that saw.

I've said before that Rick likes things neat. You can see that in the way the shingles are laid on.

Rick studiously placing the shingle in place.

To make the shingles wrap around a conical roof, the shingles need to be trimmed to the shape of a trapezoid, the front edge being wider than the back. I estimated (I'm not very fast) that I can place about 30 - 40 shingles an hour...on a good day.

Here you're looking across the front (roadside) roof of the Gallery. You can see it wrap down to the valley at the point at which the Gallery joins the Studio Yurt.

You'll notice that the roof of the Studio has new shingles on it. Unfortunately, we needed to remove many shingles from the roof of the Studio Yurt in order to be able to construct the valley. The same is true for the point where the Oval office connects to the Bathroom/Utility Yurt and to the Concentric Yurt. There was much we needed to learn.

This is the view from the roof of the Studio Yurt back to the Concentric Yurt. In the foreground is the Gallery, next the Oval Office, and the Concentric in the rear.

You may note that little roll in the Oval Office roof at Gallery end where it transitions to roof that connects the Oval Office to the Bathroom/Utility roof (out of the picture on the right).

Here's the same view with the spire of the Bathroom/Utility Yurt in view.

Again, you'll see that we pealed shingles off the roof of the Bathroom/Utility Yurt to be able to create the valley.

Note how Rick was able to bring the course of the shingles around from the front roof of the Oval Office and line it right along on the connector to the Bathroom/Utility Yurt.

I'm pleased!

The join of the Studio Yurt (left) and the Gallery.

The valleys are constructed using copper sheathing.

Here they are from the back:

- Studio Yurt

- Gallery

- Bathroom/Utility Yurt (on the right)

- The Oval Office

- The Concentric Yurt (the upstairs is visible here).

-Stanley