Ready to cook with wood!

We had two sunny days at the end of the week, so Jose and Tulio and the crew got to work and finished my horno and the chimney.  The horno now has really cool metal doors, and the chimney is beautifully finished with a very pretty yellow slate.  The trial bread baking run for the horno is scheduled for this afternoon, so more pictures to follow.

The slate was pulled from a slate deposit next to a creek near the farm.  They load up the backhoe bucket and drive it right to the chimney.

Jose putting on the finishing touches.

The door on the front of the horno, with the finished chimney in the background.

And the cute little door on the smokehole on the back of the horno.