Do it. You have second mover advantage :) Make sure to take some from: The Engines of Our Ingenuity http://www.uh.edu/engines/ http://www.uh.edu/engines/ An

Do it. You have second mover advantage :) Make sure to take some from: The Engines of Our Ingenuity http://www.uh.edu/engines/ http://www.uh.edu/engines/ An example excerpt: That cottage had stood for five hundred years. Thatch is the thick woven straw that makes the roof. The walls are a mixture of clay and straw called cob, or sometimes tabby. The material varies, as well as the name. Cob, or tabby, is a poor man's masonry. To make it, you mix a structural material -- like straw, corn stubble, or oyster shells -- with clay or earth. It makes a solid building material. In one form, we daub mud onto it. Wattles, by the way, are twigs woven together.