Down to Two Pizza Oven Locations - 2024 Project - January 2024
The notion of building a wood-burning oven in our backyard is one that I've mused about for years. Dating back to our first house in Elmhurst, I dreamed up how I could build one and where it would go in the landscape. I've posted about it a few times since we moved to Downers - including here in 2017 and again in 2020 and then one month later (also) in 2020 . The first post in 2020, I talked about planning for a pond and oven . That last post in September of 2020 , I mentioned building it on *top* of our large drywell. When I go back and read those posts, I can see the evolution in thinking - from close to the patio to utilizing the lower elevation on the northside to placing it on the drywell to deal with any potential heaving. They all make sense. And, that's what I've been thinking the past few weeks as I've moved into real planning mode. I'd like to call 2024 the year of the pizza oven. Or, at least...the pizza oven found...