Make Your Own Solar Oven- A New Improved Oven

It was over 3 years ago we made our cardboard solar cooker 

as a prototype for a more permanent cooker as we profiled in the post:

Make Your Own Solar Oven

This past spring we finally made the permanent one (above).

We adopted the plans from:

williamgbecker.com/ Make a Solar Oven

and plans included in the 1992 book,

 Cooking With The Sun (Morning Sun Press)

 by Beth and Dan Halacy.

(As an aside, as I was researching for this post 

I noticed that Beth Halacy died earlier this year,

Dan had died some years earlier.

Many thanks to them for there contributions to the passive use of solar energy.)

Building An Adobe Wall: #7 One year On And A Companion Fence

Now that our adobe wall is just over one year old 

I thought it would be nice to give a look at how the adobe plaster has held up.

We had couple of hard driving rains this past summer 

and as expected they left a nice texture to the plaster

but also washed off much of the pigment in the exposed designs.

All of the posts to date are:

Building An Adobe Wall: #1 Stone Foundation,

Building An Adobe Wall: #2 Getting Started,

Building An Adobe Wall: #3 Putting Up Adobes,

Building An Adobe Wall: #4 Putting On The Cap,
Building An Adobe Wall: #5 Hip Roof For The Gate,
Building An Adobe Wall: #6 Plastering And Creating The Designs.