by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 2, 2024 | Living in Place
Click HERE for the Wednesday Writing Circle starting October 9th. Since the last report, we’ve made so much progress! After The Builders finished laying the firebrick, Tim and I tucked two layers of ceramic blanket around the barrel oven, tacked it down with chicken...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 16, 2024 | Living in Place
New 4-Week Writing Circle Starts October 9 Come join me in a remote Writing Circle on four Wednesdays in October from 5-7 pm (Vermont Time). The Wednesday Writing Circle will provide a safe and isnpiring place for writers of all alibilities to put words on the page....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 10, 2024 | Living in Place
Building the Arch The Builders (aka Tim and Andy), laid firebrick over the foam barrel form on the weekend. It was a two-man job. Not being a man, I attended to the garden on Saturday, harvesting the colossal Patterson onions I started from seed back in March, and the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 21, 2024 | Living in Place
We had a two-week respite from pouring cement, laying bricks, and otherwise working on the oven last weekend. Instead, we performed our day jobs: Tim saw patients, I met deadlines, and Andy worked a weekend shift. Without him to supervise, we took a break from...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 14, 2024 | Living in Place
As promised last week, here’s my growing glossary of masonry terms. Learning new words while laying bricks makes hard labor interesting. Mortar Board (noun) I have a BA, MA, MPhil and a PhD, so until I laid my first brick, I thought a mortarboard was a square,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 7, 2024 | Living in Place
Bricks in a rowlock pattern, outlining the future oven. I’m learning to lay bricks as part of this summer’s Big Project: building an outdoor, masonry bake oven. Slow Going We started The Project around Memorial Day and thought we’d bake our first pizza over Labor Day...