Mill Creek Pottery Excursion Day #2

Despite the snow in the morning, gnarly cold wind all day, gray skies, and four layers of clothes, Tom and I managed to get a fair amount knocked out of the chimney. Everything is pretty simple until you get to the parts where you need to figure out a geometric puzzle on par with Zen riddles in order to cut a piece of soft brick capable of fitting around the back arch of the anagama kiln while continuing the current course.

Today was largely another day of grinding. Grinding normal size hard brick, grinding large hard brick with mortar and concrete on them, grinding all the crappy imperfections in my bisqued pots, etc. But it was all fun. I think I might sign up to be in the masons' guild after this, maybe I could get a sweet pendant or something to put on a sweater.

The reason I didn't post earlier was because Tom and I were babysitting an electric kiln until 1:30 am. During that time I glazed some pots, played with Simon's dog, Adobe, and told Tom my crum was bigger than his.

So it goes.