Grayish-brown, more organic mud.

Vacation went well until the last day when I had to organize all my stuff and leave in forty minutes.  I've immediately landed in a new sausagefest with Damien, who lives in Epuyen and is engages in various bio-construction activities in the area.  This week we did the finishing work on the adobe walls of a kitchen-and-bath annex beside the yurt of Julio the tentmaker and his partner.  They have a new baby, which I guess makes cooking and cleaning in a tent less fun and more impossible.

Finishing adobe walls is done by mixing three parts sand to one part clay, adding water and straw to the desired consistency, and smearing that shit on there with hands or tools.  It doesn't stick automatically but I gather from Damien that I caught on rather quickly my first time.  I drew heavily on my experience finishing drywall, but brown mud is much more fun because the finished surface is round rather than flat, which leaves much more room for error and art.