The complete loss of the house meant that it would be difficult for me to come back here once I had settled in, and as I had expected, there were fewer and fewer intersections with this place.

The transportation of clay also made me want to do it once and for all, I spent three whole days transporting clay, and now there are almost a thousand pounds of dirt stacked together not far from the house.

I believe that this large pile of clay pottery will be enough for me to last for ten or eight years, after all, the broken pottery is mainly overburned pots and pots.

While making all kinds of pottery blanks, I was also very embarrassed!

Before transporting the clay, I thought about the results, but I never expected to be forced to choose the most troublesome one, not only was the clay transported back to Crocodile Island, but also a new cave had to be dug.

There are not many pottery made this time, only ten pottery pots and five pottery pots, such a number is almost enough to burn one kiln, and if there are more, it will take two kilns to fit, my opinion is of course enough!

The process of drying pottery takes a while, and digging a kiln during this time is certainly more than enough, but I think there are more important things that can be done.

I'm back on the island, this time it's not about pottery, it's about tiles.

Since the house can't be used as a backup, a big typhoon will blow the roof up, so I don't plan to keep it any longer, and it's a waste to put the thousands of tiles left on it and break them here.

So even if you are very reluctant, the house that was originally used just in case has become shattered, and the tiles on it will exert its residual heat on Crocodile Island.

If the roof of the kitchen hadn't been overturned, and the first roof hadn't been blown off, there would have been more than 3,000 tiles, but unfortunately more than two-thirds of them had been lost.

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At the beginning, I was tired and tired of mixing mud little by little, and then made, dried, and fired piece by piece, but it was damaged like this!

It took me almost a week to transport the more than 1,000 tiles back to Crocodile Island, and there seemed to be few things worth cherishing on the island......

It seems that there are memories of a few years, and there is still a fear, if you don't move, you will experience this typhoon on the top of the mountain as before, and it is estimated that you will be scared!

As long as I think of the top of the kitchen being overturned, I can guess my own misery, and I can make up for my own fears in the room unconsciously, but I can avoid all of this.

And the more than 1,000 tiles have helped me more or less, at least the construction of the third room should be ahead of schedule, which is good news for me, at least I don't have to do it all over again.

The location of the pottery kiln was finally chosen next door to the brick kiln, because the location itself is more suitable, and more importantly, the geology is very good.

Maybe this piece of land really has a fate with the kiln, and it can be regarded as unobstructed after digging it in a few days, and there is not even a stone the size of a basin, so smooth that I am a little unbelievable.

When I first wanted to dig a pottery kiln, although it was not as hard as digging a brick kiln, I also sweated a lot, which was far more laborious than here!

I didn't make pottery directly in the first kiln, because in my experience, the soil in the kiln was still mixed with a lot of water vapor, and if it was not good, all the pottery in this batch would be scrapped.

For the sake of caution, it was burned for two hours in an empty state, and the soil inside and the surrounding area became quite dry before firing.

Three or four hours later, I managed to get five clay pots and three clay pots, and I lost nearly half of them, but I was quite satisfied, at least I solved my urgent need now, and I didn't have to worry about pottery for at least three to five months.

I'll have more time in three or five months, and then I'll be able to work on it slowly!

A year always flies quickly, especially when you are busy, and you don't know how to mix it up!

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I'm going to make a new basket that has come to an end after so much time and intense use.

It's not surprising that the lifespan of such consumables is generally short, but I was going to make them with new materials, and the back basket woven with vines was still a little bit less interesting!

At that time, I had to choose vines because of the lack of materials, but now there are better choices.

This time, I plan to use bamboo to make it, and when I was a child, the containers used at home to go out to the market or harvest grain were bamboo-backed baskets, which shows that it is very outstanding in terms of practicality and appearance.

Although I have not used bamboo to weave baskets so far, I believe that the superb craftsmanship that I have honed over the past few years should be no problem.

What's more, when I was young, I often saw others knitting, and I was absolutely familiar with the process......

There are many types of bamboo, and the products that can be made have different emphasis, but the good news is that the type of bamboo forest in this forest happens to be one of the few that I am familiar with.

The first thing to make bamboo products is to choose the right age of bamboo, in order to ensure that the use of time is longer, the selection of bamboo is best more than two or three years of old bamboo, only the material is harder, it is more durable.

However, it should not be too old, more than five or six years old bamboo texture is too hard to weave, and it will be easy to break due to lack of toughness when used in the future.

This is a skill, only those who have been contemptuous for many years will know it very well, and I am just talking on paper, basically belonging to the type of saying it and doing it!

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I don't know how many years this bamboo forest on the island has grown, and bamboo can be said to be everywhere in three or five years, so there is nothing to say about the process.

After cutting two bamboo leaves from the roots and cleaning them out, I sawed them into two bamboo tubes about three meters long with a hand saw, and the length should be the same.

Carry all the four sections of bamboo tubes home, and then use a knife to divide the bamboo tubes into dozens of equal parts of bamboo strips, and the width is basically only seven or eight millimeters.

Of course, the separated bamboo strips cannot be used, not only the thickness is excessive, but also the thin bamboo knots on them must be cleaned one by one, so it should be divided into two halves from the middle with a knife from one end, as long as it is close to the outer half of the bamboo.

Even though I have a lot of theoretical knowledge, I still can't escape the truth that everything is difficult at the beginning......

In the first four sections of the bamboo tube, only twenty or thirty were harvested, which was far from enough, and the number of bamboo had to be found in the bamboo forest again.

It wasn't until the next day that I finally got together enough of the dozens of sticks I needed, and at the same time sighed deeply, it seems that I still think highly of my own craftsmanship, otherwise I wouldn't be so hard!

After I had enough slats ready, I started to make the bottom of the basket, which is a very important position because it has to bear all the weight, and if it is not hard enough, it will lose shape in a few days.

Especially when loaded with heavy loads, it can turn into a disposable item, which is certainly not the result I wanted!

After the dozens of sticks are neatly arranged according to the standard spacing, they are overlapped on top of each other like a fence to form an area close to the aspect ratio of a square in terms of aspect ratio, and then woven and reinforced with other strips around it.

That's not all, but also add a few finger-thick flat bamboo strips to the top to support the weight later.

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After the most troublesome steps are disposed of, the next work is relatively easy and simple, the body of the bamboo basket is very easy to do, and it only needs to be done in the way of picking and pressing one to continuously weave the strips upwards to complete.

In the middle of the basket, a bamboo strip with a length of three or four meters is used to wrap around several circles every five centimeters, so that the surrounding area of the basket is also strengthened to a certain extent.

Sometimes I have to admire the wisdom of the ancients, such a complex item can be studied, and it can be so perfect, I want to find a place that can be improved, but I can't find it, because this is the best state it can achieve!

When the height of the basket reaches fifty or sixty centimeters, the extra strip of more than one meter is lowered again, filling the originally sparse hole and pulling it to the bottom to retract.

In fact, the basic work is over at this step, and the rest only needs to be woven into two flat shoulder straps with dozens of bamboo wires, and then tied to the upper and bottom of one side of the basket body.

In terms of my needs, the whole size of the back basket is huge, and it is estimated that it will not be a problem to fit 180 pounds.

Although the first basket has reached a practical state, it is a pity that it has not escaped the inherent law, that is, ugly, it seems that it really has to be cooked to make perfect!

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There was not much time left for the year, and I still had a lot to do, so I began to continue cutting and expanding the area of the crop until it reached a total area of four acres.

If you remove the area occupied by the stumps left in the ground, there are basically about 2.5 acres left, which is not much different from the area of the top of the mountain in previous years, not to mention that the stumps can also be cleaned up when loosening the soil.

Most of January, of course, was spent preparing various items that needed to be prepared years ago, such as squeezing out peanut oil and grinding dozens of pounds of cornmeal.

Unlike before, after grinding the cornmeal this time, I removed the top half of the grind and rolled it back to the boat, and returned to Crocodile Island with me.

There is no need to transport corn to the island to grind noodles again, once or twice is acceptable, but I am reluctant to think that I will always be in a state of running at both ends in the future!

For me, I'd rather solve a big problem once than encounter a small trouble intermittently, and the best way to solve it once and for all is the best way.

As with the grinding discs, the rope nets on which the stones were hung from the oil extraction tools were dismantled and brought back, while the other structures had to be discarded.

Of course, this is nothing to be ashamed of, the oil extraction tool is actually a long tree trunk, and the others are made of stones, and it seems that it is not too difficult to copy a new one, after all, I have made one by hand.

After abandoning these two important tools, the chances of returning to the island are becoming less and less, because there is no reason to return, and life is now basically on track.

What's more, the plastic sheeting used to make the sails has little life left, and it may be difficult to get back to sea in the near future.