Day 81, Guidance (2)
The method described above is called the mud strip ring method, but the requirement is to add the soil to the fine crushed hay and stir it, and then leave it for more than three days. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoIf you have time, it's better to do it for as long as possible.
But at this time, I was extremely excited, how could I wait, I was already eager to try, no matter whether what I did could succeed in the end, at least I could have a preliminary understanding of the process.
This method is also very simple, which is to dig out a piece of soil, knead it into the bottom of the thing you want to make, and then repeatedly knead the mud strips, and slowly cover the mud strips. Then smooth it with your hands, and finally find something to pat it on.
In this way, after more than an hour of hard work, the first work was completed, which is a small pocket water tank, and it is estimated that only half a bowl of water can be placed. If it can be successfully fired in the future, it is good to use it to make a bowl for eating, after all, the bowls taken down from the ship are very large.
Maybe it's because the water is added a little too much, but after this mud embryo is done, it is not very straight, and after being placed for a while, it feels a little collapsed. But there are only a few, and if you don't look closely, you can't see it at all.
As long as it dries a little bit, it will definitely not deform, so in order to see the first dried mud embryo as soon as possible, I hurried to the lower level of the treehouse and carefully placed this small small water tank next to the fire so that it could dry as quickly as possible.
I wanted to make a few more, but I was stunned when I looked at the mud embryo that was being baked by the heat on the edge of the fire. Do you want to turn this clay embryo around a lot? Isn't it better to put it on the other side of the fire? Will it dry tomorrow? If it is dried, will it crack?
Among the countless questions, I just squatted by the fire and watched, in fact, it was more of my brain that kept asking. None of these questions can be answered now. Just wait! When the mud is dry, all the answers will be revealed.
Before I knew it, it was already dark, and the rain was not very heavy, so it was falling so slowly, until just now, the hungry little black rubbed my head a few times before I woke up, if it didn't come to call me, maybe I would have to be drunk for a while.
When I stood up, I felt that my legs were a little numb from squatting, and I stepped on it a few times to slow down before recovering. The color of this clay embryo has begun to change. The dark color at the beginning slowly becomes lighter, which is the reason for drying, and when it is all dry, it should turn beige in its entirety, and it can be fired at that time. Of course, I hope that there will be no cracks when drying, otherwise it will be useless without waiting for firing.
This fascination, I forgot to eat, now I feel hungry, the rice that I dried last time was broken when I pinched it, and it is not very delicious to cook rice, but it is really good to use it to cook porridge. Add a few pieces of bacon on top and it tastes really good.
Even Xiao Hei ate two bowls, and of course there was lightning after eating, this little guy was actually called a honey badger, if it wasn't for the fact that he had seen his kind of brave snake. It's really hard for me to associate cuteness with words like "undead" and "difficult". It seems that when the little one grows up, he will have to be restrained so as not to cause me any big trouble.
It is worth mentioning that the potatoes, garlic, and things that have grown from unknown seeds that have survived in the small vegetable garden are growing very well, and it may not be long before they can be harvested. In particular, garlic has tall green leaves. It's just a little less, and certainly not enough to eat. But when it's ripe, I dig up the garlic and sow it separately, and I think it won't take long for it to be able to grow in patches.
In addition, the arrowroot flour I made last time was also very successful, and even Lightning liked to drink it very much after brewing. And the method is super simple, after the water in the pot is boiling, pour the arrowroot powder into it, stir it quickly with chopsticks, and add some sugar. Pour it out after a minute and let it cool before serving.
Because it's all starch, it's still good to feel full after eating. If you have to describe its appearance, it should be said that it is similar to the lotus root flour in civilized society. Of course, the thickness can also be adjusted by yourself, for example, when the lightning eats, I will add less arrowroot powder. And when I eat it myself, I will add more arrowroot powder.
It's just that when I'm hungry, I don't like sweets very much, so it's good to use it occasionally to adjust the taste. Lightning this guy, at first a little picky, smelled not the smell of honey water, it turned its head, and finally coaxed and tricked finally tasted a bite, only to find that this turned out to be a delicacy, and finally drank the arrowroot soup given to it, this is actually out of helplessness, honey is limited after all, when it will grow up I don't know, if you don't find a replacement in advance, once the honey is gone, you can't watch it starve to death, right?
I'm also looking for new hives, including in my notebook, and there is no record of bees at all, let alone hives. There are some plans for the manufacture of weapons that he has prepared, such as stone axes, spears with stones as tips, and even plans for making bows and arrows.
Stone axes don't appeal to me in any way, but spears and bows and arrows do, but this thing can't be done in a day or two, it takes too much time and effort. Therefore, before the tiles are fired, it should not be considered to make them.
After all, I still have fire axes and pistols, and although there are few bullets left, at least there is no shortage of them now. Now it's a safer, stronger house. The leaves of the coconut trees that are now laid on the roof should not last long and will be scrapped. According to the current situation, it should be at most three to six months, and the roof cover needs to be replaced, otherwise the completely dry leaves, after the destruction of wind and rain, will definitely become more and more fragile, and if not replaced in time, it is easy to leak.
The tarpaulin is not usable now, and there are still a few bags of grain that have not been dried yet, and if they are not exposed to the sun, they will probably be lost, after all, there is too much humidity here. Luckily, I had a 24-hour fire on the lower level, which smoked away a lot of mosquitoes, and the air inside the treehouse was drier than outside.
It's starting to get windy outside. I don't know if there is water in the shed, and the soil pit used to place the termite nest soil is not covered, so I hope the rain will not be too full. Luckily it wasn't raining too much outside.
Even if this kind of rain rains for three or five days, it will not cause water to accumulate in the yard, after all, I have improved the drainage channel in the yard again, and the drainage channel has not only been dug wider, but also deepened. With those pebbles, you can't plug these drains.
It's late, and hopefully I'll wake up tomorrow and see that the rain has stopped!