Showing posts with label cleaning kiln brick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cleaning kiln brick. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Messy Details

Dusty shoes after cleaning brick
 Happy August! Building a kiln involves much more work than just throwing some bricks up (which I knew was never going to be the case)! Since my museum adventure hiatus was officially over the other week, I have been working hard to get the remaining brick cleaned (hence the dusty shoes), and get a roof over the kiln.It's always the small, messy details that make things seem to take much longer! Hopefully there will be walls and most of the chimney next week with a potential firing this month! Nothing like picking a hot month for a first kiln firing! Stay cool!
Nailing away on the purlins

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Kiln Site Visit and Cleaning Brick

Cleaning brick
My world has been a whole lot of cleaning brick lately to get some more of the kiln completed. We've also been working to finish the kiln/machine shed completely before the summer sets in. Lord knows no one wants to work on building a structure in July or August with the heat we have been having lately! I can't imagine what it's going to be like this summer!
Blossom on a zucchini plant!
I have also been working on the 150+ tomato plants we have planted at the farm, suckering and getting them tidied up. We have blooms on our squash and zucchini plants as well as small squash and zucchini! Looks like we may have two varieties of zucchini and some yellow squash at the Greensboro Curb Farmer's Market this weekend!
The trip to Williamsburg/Yorktown, Virginia went well last week. Too brief as usual. Here are some teasers from my visit to Yorktown last week to see the collection of materials from the William Rogers kiln site, from around the second quarter of the 18th-century. See if you can make some guesses as to what is going on in the photos, and then I'll try to get a more detailed post up about some of my finds soon!
Courtesy, National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown Collection

Courtesy, National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown Collection

Courtesy, National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown Collection