Lessons In Lime
June 12, 2012
I realize that I have not posted anything for some time. I have been busy building fences, working on our property, repairing storm damage, repairing
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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.
I realize that I have not posted anything for some time. I have been busy building fences, working on our property, repairing storm damage, repairing
Well we’ve had several freak rains and a couple of nasty sand storms. Plus we had a mini tornado that ripped off about a 10
Well the plan was to whitewash on Monday with coat number 4. Yeah that didn’t happen. Just too many things to do and more rain.
Well I finally managed to get coat number three of the whitewash on. We had storm after storm roll through and then I spent a
My original plan was to apply one coat of whitewash per day for four or five days but, I thought about it and double checked
I started off first thing this morning by adding a little mortar to the spaces around the bricks. I wanted to add the whitewash to the mortar
So I went outside this morning thinking that today was the day I would have the oven ready for whitewash. I mixed up more slip
I started this morning with the idea that I was going to use a rag and a bucket of slip to wipe down then entire