 Alright, I have this ongoing clay as in ceramic operation and I want to record some of the details before I forget them. Alright, first about how long ago was like a month and a half ago? My daughter was making clay stuff, as she often does, just with the dirt on the island here. And I was making cakes. You were making cakes. But she took clay, put it in a pot, mixed it with some water and just mashed it all in there. And then I asked her for some and I made this and this. And then we made a fire inside a steel tube. It was like a four inch steel tube with a hole in the bottom so air could come through. And I got a pretty good fire going in there. And then I dropped this in and my little marble in and a bunch of other clay stuff. And I kept the fire going for about an hour and a half. Not really having any clue of what I'm supposed to be doing, but I thought I was supposed to get the stuff glowing orange. Anyway, that's what I did. Kept it going for about an hour and a half and these came out like totally hard. And they've been out here getting beaten up for the last month and a half and are still in pretty good shape. This has a couple cracks in it because one of my daughters was hitting it with a rock, but it is still totally solid. And this little marble is awesome. It even got partially glazed and I looked up what happened after. Apparently ash will glaze clay when it's fired. So that was a super enlightening experience and totally changed the way I look at this stuff. I'm walking around on it all the time. So after I got that first little thing working, I decided to make a bunch of bricks. I think I made 27 bricks. What I did was I dug a hole in the ground. It's filled in now. I don't know where it was right over there. I think now it's got all kinds of stuff in it. Anyway, yeah, I dug it out and then I put half the clay back in and poured some water in. And this is during a pretty dry time. And then I stood in there and stomped on it for about 10 minutes. And once it was all mashed up real good and like the consistency of like soft cookie dough, I'd scoop out a big scoop and put it on some sand to get the thing coated in sand just so it would have like a non-stick surface. And then I just formed it into brick shapes with my hands. And here, let me show you those. I put my bricks in my workshop and I tried a few different things. One set of bricks I left out in the sun to dry really fast. And the other two, I don't know, wood things of bricks I left in here seemed to be no difference if they dried fast or slow. Now they did crack in some places and the only places they cracked were like where there was a stone inside. And you know, like there's a stone just in here. And you know, I've opened enough to confirm that. And it totally makes sense because the clay shrinks as it dries and the stone wouldn't shrink. So it would be like the stone is growing inside as it's shrinking. The stone's not actually growing, but just relatively speaking. So anywhere there's an object that's not clay that won't shrink, it causes a bunch of cracks around it. Still, not that many cracks and totally good enough to still be usable. Oh, let me see your brick. And Aurora made a little brick. And that had a stone, you can actually see the stone right in there. And that's where it cracked there, but everything else seems fine. So what I learned from that experience was, as long as your clay is pretty uniform, it'll dry without cracks. So I did this. Oh, and I'm planning to fire the bricks. As soon as I get a few dry days, just because, you know, it's been raining fairly regularly. So, and I don't have a dry firewood pile because firewood isn't a big thing here. So I'm just waiting till I get some dry days. Anyway, so I wanted to make some more consistent clay. So I dug up a bunch of clay, put it in a bucket with a bunch of water, mixed it up, and it was it was soupy like liquidy, kind of like a milkshake. And then I dumped that through a screen so that the soupy liquidy stuff went through the screen, but any chunks, any rocks or anything just landed on the screen and didn't go in. So I had this really soupy but uniform clay. And I left it left a bucket of that out in the sun for, I don't know, a few days. It didn't take very long to dry out to get back to being clay. And that bucket of stuff is right here because of course we do our clay operation on that table where we eat, whatever. So this clay in here is very good. It's actually dried out a bunch more since then. And Aurora and I have both made something. Let me get what I made. We both made bowls. So I made this bowl just by making a flat circle blob on a tile somewhere. And then, you know, rolled out little worms and put them on here. Probably seen that done before. And just smearing it by hand, going here, you know, smoothing it out. And then I put it somewhere to dry. It dried pretty quick because it's fairly thin. And then after it was dry, you'll notice there's like a big difference between this part here which is shiny and this part which is dull. And then the hole inside which is shiny. I took a rock, you know, like just a rock, and rubbed it around all over the place. And then used my finger to rub on after that. And then used a piece of cloth to, you know, rub. Okay, I've used a couple pieces of cloth. Anyway, so then it got really polished and smooth and did not crack at all when it dried. And I'm actually really happy with this. And I'm eager to fire this. But again, I want to wait till I've got a bunch of dry firewood and a day when I know it's not going to rain or anything. But yeah, I'm feeling like this whole ceramic thing is going super well. It's presuming I fire this and it doesn't explode or anything. And now, Rora, you made a bowl too. Can I see? This is my doll's bowl that I made out of clay. And I scratched an A on the bottom right here. It's probably hard to see though because it's scratched on and not, and not, it's brown just like the rest of the bowl. It's got two A's on the inside. There's a big one there and a little one there. Stop, stop. And we're going to cook our bowl soon, right? Yeah. We're going to try to do a really good job of that. Hopefully by the time Mr. Snorzel out here is older, we'll have a really cool ceramic make an operation. Maybe we'll make some buildings out of special ceramic bricks. The clay on the island here, the brown stuff, is not super sticky. Like it was a little bit tricky getting it into the shape of a bowl without it breaking apart. Not as sticky as like clay I had in art school before or art class, whatever. There is some gray clay that I found on one of my other properties that is under a stream, like all along the bottom of stream and on some of the banks, and the gray clay is super sticky. So I think that stuff is more like, you know, what I had in art class. Although this stuff here seems to totally work as long as I can get it to be in the right shape and fire it. I want to talk to the camera too. You want to talk to the camera too? Yeah. This is my doll's bowl. Wait, say it and hold it back here because if you do it too close it loses focus. Okay, go again. This is my doll's bowl. Wait, you started while I was talking. I'll shut that up. Okay, now go. This is my doll's bowl that I made out of clay, and let's put it in.