[Cob] [Washington DC Cob] party time

[raduazo at aol.com]

  On Sunday May 6 from 3-5 PM Clarindon will have a playground 
dedication ceremony. Anyone who helped to construct the two cob 
playhouses or the cob/straw bale bicycle shed are welcomed to attend. I 
wish I had written down and kept track of everyone's E-mail address, 
but I am not very well organized. Some of my volunteers came from as 
far away as Pennsylvania and New York State. If you would like to 
receive pictures of the finished structures please send me an E-mail 
request at raduazo at cox.net. (This AOL address does not do pictures very 
well.)

  Anyway the two cob houses are beautiful. One has been finished with 
red clay and paper plaster and the other is a brown paper plaster.
  The shed is quite functional and adequate to prove the concept of a 
straw bale house supported by a cob wall. I wish they had watered 
plants on the living roof to get them established, and I wish they had 
let me put glass in the wall of the shed, but the finished product is 
not bad.

  Directions in case you forgot how to get there: Take the George 
Washington Memorial highway north to Spout run.
  Follow Spout Run to the end and go through the light. Keep going 
straight till you reach 13th street.
 Take a left on 13th street which makes a right and left jog.
 At the stop sign you will see a church in from of you on the left.
  Drive around the church and park in the church parking lot or anywhere 
else that you can find parking. The church playground is 20 yards 
beyond the parking lot.
 Ed
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