Cob: Not a forum for politics

[Amanda Peck]

"Exactly" to the first two points.  I keep having to learn the second.  It's 
not too bad if there aren't but one or two new people around, and everybody 
knows one (me!), but this is a constantly changing group.

Ianto Evans, the Hand Sculpted House (boy are you going to get tired of 
hearing that as the answer to everything, even after you get the book and 
realize that there are LOTS but not ALL answers there) has a bunch of tests, 
sight, sound, feel.  I'm not sure he mentions taste ones, but they exist 
too.  In a British book that is down at the bottom of one of the piles of 
books around me.  The reference should appear somewhere in the archives.


Green Willow writes (snipped):

          I tend to agree that alternative building *is* political in the 
same way that choices we make every day with our checkbooks is political.  
Probably more overtly so.

second, text-based conversations are notorious for misinterpretation.

I have read somewhere about a simple soil test to determine the quality of 
clay content. I live on very nice  California Foothills red clay. Does 
anyone know where I can find that test?


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