Wednesday 29 February 2012

Over due

So at the weekend (Saturday) I fired the wood kiln and on the Sunday I was hoping to blog about my kiln god status, how I smashed it alone.....well I didn't!

I crumbled at the last hurdle, my body and mind failed me. I started at 6:15am and pounded thought till about 9:00pm, hitting a steady 100 degrees and hour. My strength started to wane, I was running on to much coffee and no food. I was fading fast, head aches and sickness followed. I reach 1200 but then dropped back to 1160 and I couldn't go on, but yet I kept at it to no avail.....

....Then out of the night came hope in the form of 3 newbies and a tiny woman. They gave me 2 hours rest bite then I was back out to take charge. I was still in no shape to be firing, but together we reach 1250, it was midnight and I was done for.

But hope hand me a gift....they pressed on till 2:00am and got up to temperature, 1300!!!!

I am so thankful to those guy for finish the firing off for me, there's no way I could of done it. I laid down the challenge to myself to do it alone and was gutted I couldn't finish it.

There will one day be a rematch

"thats some good shit"

The king admiring my kiln of goodies


Mine...it's all mine!

The last of the firings






"The beacons are lit Gondor calls for aid...."

So it begins, started the fire at 6:15 sat morning...