A little more brick

It was a great Saturday morning. We had ten people out to help on the oven at various points in the day.  On task was the completion of the lower base of the oven's exterior.  We put down row after row of brick, and Mike suggested that we edge out some of our mortar to make the bricks pop and make our brick laying "sins" a little less noticeable.  We did that, and it looks pretty darn cool.

We mixed up the mortar in the wheelbarrow that a member found abandoned in the boulevard a few blocks East of the church.

Then we got some kiddos in on the action. (child labor laws do not apply to volunteer stuff, I think?)

Then before too long we had a wall.

The next step is to build the brick arch over where some firewood will be stored, and start building the entrance and chimney for the oven.