it's that time again

Today is the day before the Farmer's Market. It seems that I now measure my week by the market. Sunday is "recover from market day", Thursday is "start resting for market day", and so on. It's lunch time, and it's raining. We got two more rows of dome bricks layed out, but we need more mortar. This afternoon will be spent prepping for tomorrow morning. The dome only needs a half day of work to be finished, then we can clad the outside of the dome with a layer of refractory fondu cement mixed with some more stainless steel needles. After that, the first fire won't be too far off!

growing a dome

Our wood oven dome grew by three rows today. It is amazing the difference a few bricks can make. It feels like we are making some progress again, now that the dome is going up. Paul and i figure we should be able to finish the dome with one more solid days of cutting and mortaring. The lower photo is the view through the bake door.