Ghetto Backyard Brick Oven

Email friend Kelly Savino made this oven http://www.primalmommy.com/earthoven.html several years ago. I have been in great admiration of it. But since I don't have the kids at home any more and would like to move at some point it wasn't at all a reasonable thing to make. But then Dame Zenobia posted this http://people.umass.edu/dac/projects/BrickOven/Instant_BrickOven.htm web page on FaceBook last Wednesday eve. I have been somewhere between overwhelmed and obsessed about it since then. It was temporary, it was quick, I could tear it down again and use the materials to make a ziggurat or a tornado shelter if either became necessary.

I was able to scrounge all the materials for it from off my place, which was one of my rules. I am trying to purge, not accumulate. Or in this case at least put to use some of the crap around here. It took longer than the hour promised, but only because I had to find the materials, tote them to the back yard, and scrub them off. If the bricks & blocks were already sitting in the back yard it would have taken less than an hour.
( it's ghetto, but that just means it perfectly matches the rest of my decor )