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Just a quick update from

the “brickyard.” Last Saturday, we finished up with the brickmaking phase of the project in which we used a mix ratio of 70 percent dirt, 20 percent sand and 10 percent portland (and changed as the soil content changed.)

We’ve made 4,800 bricks, logged over 200 volunteer hours and had folks on site from the following countries: Mexico, England, France, South Africa, Mongolia, Australia, Canada and of course the USA.

This is incredibly hard work, but a great sense of accomplishment has our family presently overwhelmed. And exhausted.

Thanks to all the folks that came by, whether to haul, mix, hang out or give

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