1st entry!  This will be a record of my building a straw bale house on the "other side" of the bayou from where the houses have been until now, between the bay, bayou and cultivated field. 

Until 2009 there had been 2-300 feet of thick brush between the cultivated fields and pasture and the beach and bay front.  Tractor Jack chewed through the brush, avoiding the larger mesquite, Texas ebony and persimmons.  What was left was mulch!  More importantly, views of the bay and breeze off the water are now readily accessible!