Thanks for the photos, Sam Gray. I am happy that you are moving on your project. The elevations look great and you will have a fine home. Once the foundation...
Quentin Wilson
quentin87539@...
Mar 2, 2009 3:45 am
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Wayne called me yesterday with the news that fire had struck Virgil's house (not his residence) on the Abiquiu Plaza at 3AM. We had just finished pouring the...
Quentin Wilson
quentin87539@...
Mar 2, 2009 3:56 am
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I must agree on what could be said about this unfortunate incident. I'm still speechless about it. As I approached the blackened house, I looked and said to...
Wayne Williams
adobeman135@...
Mar 2, 2009 4:08 am
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Good evening Q just to let you know I set you pics of the house WW To: adobe@yahoogroups.com From: quentin87539@... Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:55:58 -0800 ...
Wayne Williams
adobeman135@...
Mar 2, 2009 4:42 am
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how very bad. i am speechless. reckless vagrants in abiquiu. so sorry and sad for ww who i do not know. will start a collect, then, and please let us know...
Will do Quentin. I got up here yesterday and did a little work on the batter boards. Katy was right, the ground is thawed and the digging is easy. I'm going...
Hi Simone, I'm Wayne (WW) who you met in Santa Fe after the film was over. I'm one of Quentins Students Thanks for your concern To: adobe@yahoogroups.com From:...
Wayne Williams
adobeman135@...
Mar 2, 2009 12:50 pm
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. Really . I wonder.... Reckless vagrants or purposeful locals??? I have found (at . R. G. E. Socorro!) that outsiders proclaiming better ideas are not always...
I wish to offer for no charge design ideas and drawings that optimize solar gain and water collection from the new roof. Crisis is sometimes opportunity. At...
There's nothing in either attached photo. We're writing a textbook for Marcraft on Green Technology, including green construction and I am interested in water...
You can count us in on the rebuilding as well! Katy ... You can count us in on the rebuilding as well! Katy On Mar 1, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Wayne Williams wrote: I...
Katy Blanchard
katy@...
Mar 2, 2009 4:53 pm
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Virgil is a local! And they weren't doing anything "new". Katy ... Virgil is a local! And they weren't doing anything "new". Katy On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:18 AM,...
Katy Blanchard
katy@...
Mar 2, 2009 4:54 pm
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Please tell Virgil, it is time to build "The Solar Boat" I designed for him 20 years ago.... I still have the drawings... Mark ... From: adobe@yahoogroups.com...
Mark Chalom
solarch@...
Mar 2, 2009 5:05 pm
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It's always a surprise hearing about this sort of thing so close to home. With the economy turning bad I'm thinking there will be more of this sort of thing. ...
It is always hard to figure out what is going on after a fire. With no signed letter we don't know what the message was or if there was a message. Virgil's...
Q: Your headline reminded me that I once had a colleague named Dr. Black. She and I published a paper together which is cited as Gray & Black, 2003. To make...
I investigated a fire (it was arson) in an adobe house I engineered, (both old and new additions) in Taos about 10 years ago. There was a lot of wood framing...
William Druc
bill@...
Mar 3, 2009 4:40 am
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Do we need to introduce ourselves before posting questions? I love to cook with fire, and would like to make a small portable horno on a cart suitable for...
druc: thanks, very interesting. which means that our inexpensive small adobe houses will not burn since they contain no wood, nor were the vaults and domed...
glad to be where? in NM? i would prefer an intro to a placeless email address. in reference to teri i do not see, what ideally will your horno be made of....
Hi Teri, my name is Wayne and I have been experimenting with making a portable horno. The horno that's been worked on a present is a little large for real...
Wayne Williams
adobeman135@...
Mar 3, 2009 2:49 pm
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wayne! coiled clay. of course. it would be great if you could come down here to presidio on the rio grande to make hornos with our group here on march 27th,...
Good morning Simone, thanks for the invite but will be in Arizona and Mexico during that time.WW CC: trmQC@... To: adobe@yahoogroups.com From:...
Wayne Williams
adobeman135@...
Mar 3, 2009 3:07 pm
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It is hard to accept that 1 in 31 among us are Crims. re: Pew Study on NYTimes story today. This seems historic statistically since way, way back. -- Katje ...
I am from Los Alamos, in Northern New Mexico. One of my primary hobbies and interest is historical cooking. Medieval cooking to be specific. I have been...
Hello Teri, Buy Kiko Denzers book, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/096798467X/bookstorenow600-20 on sale at Amazon, it will give you everything you...
Michael; We're in the north of the US with high clay content. What would you suggest as examples of organic microfiber. Annie www.bluerockstation.com...
here is a wood fired portable pizza oven from Vermont. "The American Flatbread Company" They bake all there pizzas that way and quick freeze them for shipping...
Mark Chalom
solarch@...
Mar 4, 2009 3:49 pm
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that is portable? on a huge truck, i assume. wish i were not four hours away from whole foods. Simone Swan c: 832 277 4425 box 1915, Presidio, TX 79845 ...
I used recycled paper pulp, whipped up with a variety of tools, ( 1/2 " drill and mortar paddle works for small jobs like this,) then wedged into my very high...