Remember that pizza oven that we keep talking about? (Here, here, here, and here)

Well…after almost a year, we finally finished it over the weekend!

Finished pizza oven with Geroni-gnome, our watch’gnome’

Our brand new, almost-done pizza oven!

It’s not quite pizza time yet. We have to wait for the mortar to dry fully and then start lighting consecutively larger fires, curing the oven. All-in-all it should take another week and a half or so. Then…it’s pizza time! Over the past year, the oven has gone from a pile of bricks…

A truckful of fire bricks

To a base…

So it began: Memorial Day 2013

More of a base…Firebricks, red bricks, and kiln insulation

To a real-looking oven!

Building up the walls and ceiling arches

The arches hold! We’re really doing this…

Almost there!

So close to pizza time!

It looks like it was meant to there, right!?

The backyard is READY!

Two big questions remain: When is happy hour?  And what should we name it!? Please leave your thoughts in the comments below! Winner gets invited to our pizza party!