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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> Now you're talking!  The stack of beige fire brick just outside the  
> kitchen
> window have been staring accusingly at me for three years now.  They  
> are for
> the floor of the clay oven.  At the bottom of one of the creeks we  
> have a
> deposit of some very fine kaolin like clay.

Get on with it, man! That way I can learn from your mis . . ., um,  
efforts.

It certainly does not require an advanced engineering degree. My  
greatest pause is that it would be a piece of work to take asunder if  
location choice is wrong. I actually have a near-perfect place, under  
the high and extended shed roof of the East Wing. It is close enough  
to serve the kitchen handily, but would require building over the fine  
ferrocement bed I built there.

I keep losing my crystal ball.

I was looking at old writings this morning and came across one about  
the importance of making a master plan before any building or  
permanent garden construction. Well, even with a good master plan, I  
have this clay oven example of how you just can't think of everything.