Some months ago we bought a house. (Yay!) The previous owner/tenant had not been too kind to it nor to the dirt driveway. While collecting fill dirt to fix the massive ruts and holes in the driveway, I kept finding huge lumps of clay. Knowing how good clay is for the skin, I couldn't help but want to make something of this find.
Experiments are now under way to discover what can be done with this natural bounty.
Today's experiment: Removing the sand, grit and leaf bits from the beautiful red clay.
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| Watery red clay, kindly note the lack of leaves, twigs or sand. |
There's a larger water-to-clay ratio than I had planned, so now it's time to let the sun do her work and evaporate some of the excess water. Give that a couple days and we'll see what there is to make of this gorgeous stuff.
Also stumbled upon some white clay, well gray would be more accurate a description. Also experimenting on that, but there are red striations throughout the lumps and it seems that I'm just getting a rather ugly dirty brown watery mess from that bunch of clay lumps.
Cross your fingers and we'll see what happens next!
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