September | 2015 | kritterspaw

We normally do one big project each year.. along with quite a number of smaller projects. We have moved outside for this year’s project and got a wild hair to do a pizza oven. It seemed like a good idea at the time. We looked into buying one (which probably would have been a wise choice), but looked at the cost, particularly for a gas & wood fired oven.. and decided (like so many things we do) that we could do it ourselves.

So we embarked on this journey that continues … and continues.

We identified where it would go and how we would go about it. It should sit on a concrete block pad, which we would later wrap with stone and granite counter tops. The oven itself would sit on top… and have a concrete pad lead in… and a flagstone area around it, where we would put the concrete table we made (remember that earlier post?).

Who knew how much work just doing the prep would be. Suffice it to say it has been filled with long days and a lot of back breaking work… but it’s finally starting to look like something. I gathered some photos and built this little video. Wordpress does not allow me to upload directly, so I posted it on YouTube.

Check it out. Next, we can now actually start the pizza oven itself. Stay tuned…

Pizza Oven Prep

We like to frequent the Mogollon Rim as it is close to us, and bountiful with it’s awesome nature and scenery. We always feel so fortunate to live so close to something so stunning, and are always finding something new and interesting.

On a recent trip we ran across this old cabin. There was no signage to get there, but this old cabin was well kept and maintained. We wandered around it and were mesmerized by how well built it was.. and how lasting. We estimated it was built in the 1930’s, and still standing. We could imagine that some old rancher set up home here… cutting down local timbers, perhaps even mixing his own concrete to chink the lumber walls. Corrals still stood from apparent horses, and old farm implements strewn about allowing the tenants to live off the land.