Pres

Have a safe weekend. Don't need something like that happening twice in a lifetime. My husband worked in a mill years ago where a lot of fine sawdust was generated. There was a fire by one of the machines and the operator shut the big fans off. This caused the fuel to oxygen ratio to increase which resulted in an explosion. Running a fan while firing the kiln might be an idea so any remaining gas doesn't accumulate. 

As my thinking follows never assume, I went to mayor's office on Wednesday, asking about firing the kiln. Mayor told me to go down to the guys working on the street from the gas company, and ask. Top guy there told me that there was no problem with the gas now at my side of the block evidenced by the road being opened and that their testing showed that the soil was no longer saturated. I explained that I was in a garage in back of the house with the firing and the garage was over the river tunnel. He said all of that had been cleared. Fired the kiln that day. The cone adjustment of -35 is not quite right. Next firing will be with cone adjustment of -30. Getting there.

Rain...? What's that? We haven't seen rain here in the Sacramento, CA area since early May and probably won't be seeing it for another 2 months. Something to look forward to along with the shorter days...more time to spend in the studio when the sun goes down 

so sorry to hear this!

Hope you are managing to get dried out

Shop electric heat has been on for 3 days, ice melted, and has been vacuumed up. Glaze mixing started yesterday, Glazing this week on clear days. However the forecast looks bleak for much more than base glazing. 

Hopefully your last storm,  it suppose to be 77 today.  We have gotten a total of 1 inch of snow this year, still in a drought.    Denice

11 inches yesterday, will probably all be melted off by the end of the week. I would not want to be in a drought, but at the same time, some warmer weather will allow me to get into the frozen shop!

It is going to be in the mid 50's this week but cold is moving our way this weekend.   The weatherman said it could get down to 10 degrees,   my husband will have to finish my Century plant cover before that happens.   I would rather have snow  and not so cold.    Denice

temps are running mid 20's during the day. Snow was about 10" still lightly snowing, but am dug out.

I am  glad you listen to your gut,  I get  gut feeling also.   I almost lost a lot of money not listening to my gut.   It was a big decorating job  of a well know local celebrity.   They had fired the decorator and wanted me to take over the job.  I didn't want to do it  but friends and relatives talked me into it.  Before I had any time or money invested in it they decided to give the last decorator another chance.  I was so relieved,  later in the year I found out that they didn't pay any of their subcontractors.  I could have lost $50,000 on a job like that.   I don't let anyone talk me in to something I have a bad gut feeling about anymore.    Happy birthday,  I will be 67 October 15.   Denice

70 here folks, thanks for the best wishes!

best,

Pres

8 pm, Kiln dropping ^5 right now, 

best,

Pres

Congratulations to you both!

Just as long as I have been married to clay -no ring to show for it

Congrats! Thats fantastic!

I like the bag o money season-then the time off.

Oh bbbaaaa Humbug Mark, such is the life of a hard working potter!

Living the dream Pres... Minus the grinding I would imagine.

Oh yeah, but grinding is even easier now. Got a diamond disc a few conferences ago, glued it onto a bat, attached to wheel with sponge of water, grinding is actually fine!

Then indeed, living the dream.

Tower of Power

Yeah it is i7 8700K processor 16gig of RAM and a new Mobo to handle it all.

49 was a very good year, and it make it easy to remember your age!

Glad you have these opportunities Pres.. They make for good memories. Lost my Father in 2010. This is the one part about getting older I dislike, loss of loved ones.

True. I lost mine in 2004 and 2009. Miss them both. After I retired for a few years I was able  to take them on trips for a few days in the Autumn to see the trees turning.   Glad I did it.

marcia

You might consider an extra week of warmth

I feel for you if you got home with all the airport backups . from the tropics to a deep freeze . Should be warming up in day our two.It got into the  upper 30's last night here.

We are home! Got in last night at 2:30 after the drive from BWI. Weather last night was icy coming out, but as we got closer to home the temps rose, and it was a balmy 36 when we got in. This morning was 38, and all is good. They are looking for 50 by end of the week!

Saw the first one in the first Penland Craft Book of Ceramics. 

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" Years ago I saw a jar made bey the Larson's, I believe. remembered it over the years and stole the idea. "

And then more recently, I stole the idea from Pres...

Hope that gave you some ideas Min. The grooves in the molding actually help me get pretty straight cuts as one groove is wide and I use the outside edge for cutting the end, and the inside edge for cutting the sides.

I like your molding idea to create the step in the base. In Canada butter mostly comes in 1 lb blocks so I'm thinking more of a box shape rather than a rectangle to fit part of a block of butter.

Sounds like it would work, pick your molding carefully. Mine was a window/doorway molding.

best,

Pres

Is this like a variation of the adage "A watched pot never boils"? Instead, "An unwatched kiln always over-fires."...

Settings were line up for shut off in the morning. Nothing on high. under est. by 30 minutes is my best guess. Nothing ruined.

Yikes!! That's always scary. Piccies?

Sounds like you enjoyed it more than the students- a good thing.

Your students are so fortunate to have you at the helm.

Load finished at 3:30am. Going to take a nap!

And post pics!

Wow, aced two in a row. Better not answer week 16, I will flunk again.

Cowardice. . . !

more questions?

Call it OCD, call it whatever but; I have spent hours working with just a metal rib, then a wooden rib, then a silicon rib: just learning how much pressure and how each acts.

Pres, where do you post the questions?

Questions are in the Educational Approaches and Resources Section. Strand is pinned at top. . if I remember to!

Finally aced one. Where is my gold star, tired of wearing the dunce hat.

Would never give a dunce hat to a student.

Pres: I will take my dunce hat back please. Opened my test kiln this morning to find a lovely collection of shards. I can make clay, but apparently firing it is above my technical abilities.

Yep!

I flunked!!!!

Where is the post?

Very wise decision. I buried my dad 5 years ago.

My Dad is 90, and still does most of the driving-for those of you that are hunters.