Romans would be proud

Well, maybe they would laugh at us. We built an arch. We had NO idea what we were doing, but it stayed up when we pulled the form out so I think we did a good job. My arms are killing me this morning from lugging the brick around, but no pain no gain, right? It was around 100° yesterday, but with the shade of the kiln barn it only felt like 95°. We are going to have another hot day today, they say even hotter, but we are going to stay in the shade, cook out with Eric's family visiting from Rockford, and take it easy. It's 8:30 am and I have a ton of things to do, but I'll be honest I want to go back to bed.

Namaste, B

New Toys

Eric has been having too much fun working on my kiln and has used this opportunity to get new toys, I mean tools. We are now the proud owners of a chop saw, welder, grinder and what makes me a very popular person among other potters...a 14 inch blade wet saw. Have brick, will cut! 

We, correction...Eric has laid two layers of cinder block and two layers of hard brick to start the floor. Now the fun begins with the firebox arch and moving forward. We had to take in our hay the other day and a few other farm projects and then we get right back into kiln work. Things are going well.