The kiln the afternoon of the firing. As you can see, the kiln is in need of some serious maintainence! That will have to happen before the next firing. More about that to come after we open the kiln and get an assessment of the latest cracks.. It...

As I walked away from the kiln tonight I was thinking how grateful I am to the help I always need to fire the kiln. Alan Gratz helped out all day despite some serious publishing deadlines he's working towards. Alan spends most of time crafting great...

Here's the moon over one of the last big stokes going out the chimney .

For those keeping score at home, live twitter updates of today's firing at http://www.twitter.com/klineola

Here are some images of the loading. I hope these images are self explanatory. But don't hesitate to ask questions if you have them. I'm just tired for now.....