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Saturday, February 23, 2002. We hosted "Terri & Ari's Cob Wall Raising Party" today, and thanks to the beautiful weather, we had a great turn out. We had been saving the western wall, just for this day. The rest of the walls are like 6 feet high, but the western wall we left it at about 2.5. This side is the simplest of all -- no windows, no complicated wirings, so it's really suited for just a lot of people learning cob and having fun.
Here are the list of participants: Bryce, Tracy, Skylar (1 yr old), Melissa, Janet, Selwyn, Tom, Justin, Yu, Hana, Kai, Satomi, Takuma, Aya, Lorie, Ken, and Chris. Special thanks to Lorie who took most of today's pictures.
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Bryce and Tracy experiencing cob for the first time. Janet and Melissa in the background. |
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Little Skylar. |
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Janet and Melissa checking out their cob. Hmmm. Is it it almost ready for straw? |
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Kids playing in our sand pile. This has always been a great playground for little kids. We don't think we'll use all this sand for our first house, so we'll have to think of doing something good with our left-over sand. |
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Satomi, Justin and Yu working on a batch. These people have come out so often, they are now veterans. |
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Melissa, Janet, Selwyn and Tom checking out today's assignment. As you can see they're being a bit timid with their cobber's thumb -- but it took them no time to learn that they can really dig in with those! |
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Tom and Selwyn working on a batch. |
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Well, they got the right idea of how to do it! |
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From outside, looking in the house. |
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Melissa, Ken and Janet putting cob on the wall. |
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Yu and Satomi catching up with each other while cobbing. |
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Ken, Janet and Melissa poking with cobber's thumbs. |
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Ken working hard. |
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Justin and little Aya collaborating on mixing. |
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The fruits of today's labor. |
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Another look at today's progress. The wood pieces are for the water pipe, and we also put in a couple of conduits. |