Galen is such a pleasant person, really relaxed, extremely intelligent, has a great sense of humor, and is very confident that good solutions are at hand for what ever the situation is but it does take some thoughtful trials to find the better solutions.
Last night Galen lead us through discussions on building materials, best practices, things to consider, flexible designs, location, etc.
Today he had us build an adobe stove, to go along with an adobe oven that he already had. What a blast this was, stomping on sand, clay, straw, and small pebbles (and some water) with our feet to get the mix just right (you squeeze it and listen to it to determine if the mix is right), experimentation is required. We also were cooking pizza in the outside wood oven that was built previously, and it rained harder today (it was probably about 8C or 45F today) that it has at any time over the past two weeks, this makes for a great time when you add community to the mix.
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| Galen's Adobe Stove & Pizza |
3 comments:
Ann & I think this adobe stuff is really cool and it looks like WE might be able to do it... of course we'll need your help with this and all the other building practices. All this stuff is great and maybe the answer is the "yurt co-home community" you speak of! What's next...
Hmmm ... I've been wanting a pizza/bread oven in our backyard. Think you could help us out with that?
This stuff was great, they actually called in Cob, basically. The thing that Galen, very much a McGiever type of individual, says that you should build a variety of structures each with a different mix to determine the best mix for the. The oven did have kiln brick on the bottom with cob/adobe as the structure. I know Genevieve was building an oven in her yard before I left, so we will some additional local knowledge on the subject.
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