Still More Bricks
March 27, 2013
Well we reached the end of day 3 of making the foundation bricks. Well we successfully laid up another 167 bricks today. So that will
All of the posts here follow the journey and the evolution of our understanding an the building of our earthen oven. This journey developed skills and a love of working with earth in a way that we no longer have in the mainstream. This provided skills and an understanding for myself and my children in a way we never expected. We hope to inspire others by documenting this journey. It’s time to go play in the mud.
Well we reached the end of day 3 of making the foundation bricks. Well we successfully laid up another 167 bricks today. So that will
Like I said at the end of my last post a mixer paddle in the cement mixer broke and was going to have to be
So here we are again making bricks. As I said at the end of my last post I had saved all of the clay soil
So in my last post I had estimated that I would need 614 bricks for the foundation. That works out to 4 courses of bricks
Well I’m at the point of needing to make the stabilized lime bricks so I can begin building the foundations. I’ll use standard adobe bricks
What a picture! I definitely think that the title of the post says it all. I had planned on laying up some bricks and working
Wow what a day! As you can see in the picture I just finished unloading sand. This was my second trip to the wash. I
Well I figured out the locations the water lines and drain line. Yes I said drain line. I have decided to omit the second sink.