If the weather is right, the bricks should dry in 7 to 10 days.
VOA: special.2009.01.12
Intifar Sabre Abu Hassan, one of the women of the family, says she knows the taps will run dry by the afternoon, and then stay dry for several days ahead.
VOA: standard.2009.08.01
"I did have to wait for drydays - that's why it took three months probably!"
Every year, the valley's winemakers await the long, hot, drydays of the southern hemisphere summer that increases the sugar content and intensifies the flavor of the grapes.
He said a "lucky window" of four days in May when dry weather had allowed him to fill his barn with silage for the winter, whereas his neighbouring farmer had suffered six weeks of "relentless" rain.