No rest for the thankful

This morning was absolutely gorgeous.  There were six beautiful deer munching in the front of the house.  I watched them for a good bit before starting the day.

The first thing we did was to start up a fire of scrap lumber from past projects to take the paint off our barrel that will sit on top of the heat riser made several days ago now.

See the paint coming off towards the bottom?

Youssef and I got a lot done on the rocket stove.  After taking apart the initial design, we replaced it with the metal shell we made and painted yesterday.  The paint was a little tacky still, but we just brought it in and set it up anyway.

We stopped to take up the neighbors on their offer of a Thanksgiving meal.

Later we would return to put some more time on the rocket stove.  After struggling to put the last pipe sections together, the following is how it looked at the end of the day.

Another "test burn" because I like it

The frame and initial piping being supervised by Youssef and Phillip.