OK, time to quit screwing around with counter culture gardening and and crawling under the blankies cause I was depressed at my unemployment running out and get back to work before I have to find a real job. Just happened to see my last supervisor Cristine at Wal*Mart tonight and I teased her with "Do ya need me yet?" and she said "Always..." and then she wandered off aimlessly zapped items with a telzon. I'd try getting back there if I had a 4-wheel drive truck so I could be more certain of getting out when it snows but I'm not risking the van on them steep hills this winter and I'd probably get wrote up for being snowed in again so I'm gonna see if I can make a load first.

 A couple weeks back I was showing the load to Rick and kinda sluffed off looking in one of the side spy holes near the rear of the chamber because I thought I had a post in the way...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/stillsettingmiddlerear2.html

... it's the one sticking up like a sore thumb in the middle left of the two Dragon Pots. I was at a standstill in loading because I needed a bunch more pieces so I put that thought in the back of my mind for a while and poked along mostly making more cups and bowls...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/cupsandbowls1.html

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/morecupsandbowls5.html

... and eventually got about 6 shelves worth of under 4½" pieces some of which were under 3"...

 http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/sixshelvesworth.html

 I needed some 6" posts too so I cut a bunch of 3" from 9" soaps. I cut three 3" from one 9" and didn't like the post with two cut surfaces so the rest were cut 3" & 6" and I was able to sorted out the two size ranges...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/three-inch-bowls.html

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/4-inch-cups-and-bowls.html

 ... and set the 6" aside until I needed them. I didn't have to wait long. During a break sitting inside the chamber on a short bucket with a cup-a  and a bowl-a the thought came to me to move that post that blocked the spy hole to the other side of the shelf so I could see in...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/secondary-stoke-hole-3.html

 When I did that and took a look the next thought that came was, "Hay, I wonder if I can put a 1"x12" stick into that hole without touching anything?" Sure as poop I tried it and it worked, however if I inserted enough sticks for a complete secondary stoke procedure there would be an ash deposit on the shelves below. Then I decided to use a clay piece I wasn't really gonna keep for a makeshift grate to catch the ash and hold the stick up off the shelf so it's flame will be sucked down through the pots into the exit flue. That slab/grate might make a neat piece of aquarium furniture if it looks scrofulous enough...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/secondary-stoke-hole-1.html

 Setting the next shelf on the right side and a couple 6" pieces along the left is much better space usage and I can make a channel of shorter pieces through the middle to guide the flame path to the secondary stoke fuel...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/middle-rear-top-2.html

 The temperature outside is starting to dip (it's 29° on the back porch right now and the sun has been up for an hour) and I'm gonna have to make sure pieces are bone dry enough to load so I rigged up a rack in the rafters...

http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/ca/kpap/lc/drying-in-the-rafters.html

... and with the oil furnace kicking in and the ceiling fan going they ought to get dry enough. I'll also need to set charcoal cans in the kiln to dry any shelf wadding or extra cone packs when it stays colder.

 And last but not least I cleaned up a corner in the studio to expose my wreath machine and give me more table room and found some honey jars with  Apple Ash Slip Glazes I'd saved from my old place. One says it has black copper oxide (musta got that at Western Michigan University) and another has rutile (I can't find my 5lb. box of rutile so I am substituting Titanium dioxide). They won't last long but at least I can do some comparison tests without having to order more or make Apple ash in the Koie cooker.

 Holy wuhu! that was a lot to digest so we can do the movies later... oh what the hell, here they are...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSa4-6yjA9A (Recycling Small Amounts of Clay)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juADRulhUzY (Shooting Up Sea Shells)

 That's it, thanks for reading and clicking and watching and stay in there eh!

Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/