Tuesday, September 21, 2010

green shoots and greensand


Corn's up! Course just the one plant, the other 40 or so are no shows. Too early? Inappropriate planting for climate? Who knows. We shall overcome, I'll dig a mound up tomorrow and see if I can find any seeds. maybe they rotted. Also I have been constructing a small charcol furnace: here's me ramming the refactory lining into the bucket I'm using for the furnace body. This should fireproof it and after I've made the lid out of the same fireproof furncace clay I should be able to fire it up to fire the lining, then melt some aluminium and do some greensand casting, a useful skill for unpluggers everywhere. Slowly though, I have to do this in between building a  house!

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