A builder in Alaska sent me this story about an earth oven she built in Ecuador, with two helpers. At the ages of 10 and 6, they are clearly competent. Margaret writes: Winters in Kodiak were beginning to get to me. I had it in mind to snow goose it away in a warmer climate for the coldest, darkest part of winter. Alan and his girlfriend, Loretta were due to get married on their farm [in Ecuador]. They invited me to the wedding. And so I went. I had always said to Allan that if I did ever get to Ecuador then I would build them an oven. What a fine wedding present that would be ...... The . . .

Wood-fired, earth-oven pizza grows a family business in Cedar City UT The Murray family needed extra income to pay dad's college tuition; he had already made a little backyard oven, and decided he could make a bigger one on a cart and run an outdoor pizza business. My favorite line from the video (below) is Jason expressing amazed gratitude for his wife Cindy's support: "How many wives would let you make some stupid oven in your backyard out of mud and then put it on a trailer and go out on the street, you know?" They were so successful tho, making pizzas outdoors in every kind of weather, . . .