[This post was written quite a few days ago but didn't publish it because it was pretty boring and I was hoping to add more later. Well, it's later and I've already fired the kiln so I'm just gonna put this up and move on.]
Hey. After being sick for more than 2 weeks I have finally got to feeling better. Now I just have to battle the spring allergies. Which is fine because I'm so happy to have had temperatures in the 70's this week along with beautiful sun shine, budding trees, and blooming dandelions.
I'm getting ready to fire the kiln. The ware boards and racks are full of glazed pots so I'll do some prewadding and then load over the weekend. I hope to fire on Monday.
Here's something that may interest the potters who read this. A little tip. I know my kiln will hold 15-17 shelves of pots. I use 12"x 24" shelves. The ware boards that I put my pots on in the studio are 8" x 36". Do the math. What do you find? Both a shelf and a ware board are 288" sq inches. So I know when I get 15 or so boards of pots made that I have I full kiln load. Of course I have to take into consideration the sizes of the pots and the kiln posts but generally it works out to me having just the right amount of pots to fill the kiln. Sometimes I'll have a few left over. But I never come up short.
