Good morning! The dosas I fried up were delicious with the mint chutney I made!
Day 17
These are some pictures of the awesome dosas I made! They were a hit with everyone this morning!!!
We made progress on the deck of Allerton Abbey, building and leveling the second cob floor, and preparing the next room for adding a cob floor to it. We are on the first stages of building the cob floors. We have not yet gotten to using finer cob, that the upper layers of the floor use. We're using rougher cob on the big bottom layer that is just above the gravel base.
This is the first cob floor drying before we add the next layer of cob. The floor has to completely dry all the way through before the next layer can be added.
This is the second floor we are building.
I primarily am stomping cob, mostly because I can lift the tarp for turning over the big cob batches and that I'm heavy enough that my just walking on the con does a good job of mixing it. The steps we do for making the cob is as follows: make a pile of sand, add clayslip, mix in the clayslip, add
water as needed, once the sand and clay are fully mixed and at the right consistency, add straw, mix in the straw, add water as needed, and then, apply the cob once at the right consistency.
Here's an interesting insect I saw crawling pn the wall of Allerton Abbey! And I find this tree's wound kinda interesting!
We brought a saw over from Basecamp to the Labs, so that we could cut boards for the deck. English Fred was working on the deck!
While searching the Shop for a metal detector, I think I saw a
rocket oven and a
solar cooker(?)
Jaqi was leveling the floor of the second cod floor today!
And look at that smooth first cob floor! And that beautiful leaf! I'm still amazed by how beautiful English Fred's work is with that leaf!
These are some of the
local bees at Allerton Abbey visiting a bee house we have there!