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offcntrFinished loading the big glaze kiln yesterday afternoon around 3 pm, grateful to be indoors, as it was bucketing down rain outside, some of it running in to flood the south edge of the kiln room floor. (Fortunately, all the kiln shelves are up off the floor on cafeteria trays, so stay dry.)
By 8:30 pm, when I came back to light the burners, the rain was mixed with sleet, nasty, cold and wet. Wasn't too worried, though; the weather online said it'd turn to rain, tapering off around 7 am.
Woke up a little after 3 am to use the bathroom, and this was my view out the kitchen window.
That's a good four inches of snow down, more coming, fat, wet flakes.
We'd planned on me taking the van down to fire, as Denise needed the car for a meeting later today. Immediate change of plans. The car has four-wheel drive and anti-lock brakes; the van, not so much. I tossed and turned for about half an hour, decided I wasn't getting back to sleep, so rolled out again at around 4 am. Swept off the car, loaded up, and headed out. Slowly.
Surprisingly, River Road was actually plowed, up to the city limits (about two blocks south of our driveway). Didn't know Eugene even had snowplows, but saw the trucks coming up the northbound side as I turned onto Beltline. Beltline wasn't bad, though I kept it under 40; Delta Highway was much worse, so I came off at Sixth Street rather than continuing on to Coburg Road. Probably a good idea, though between snow and construction, the off-ramp was a definite challenge. One lane was cleared on Sixth, possibly by the EmX bus; Franklin was rather better, though Villard and 15th were ruts in snow, and I made the first tracks across the Maude Kerns parking lot.
It was 4:45 when I finally got here, to nice orange heat in the kiln. Had body reduction around 6:15, and the firing seems to be tootling along nicely. Also? As of 7:30, I measured six inches of snow on top of the kiln yard fence, and it's still snowing. Good thing I brought extra fruit and granola bars. I'm not going anywhere.
ETA: Aaand then it slowed down. Cones 04 and 1 dropped in good order, but it took forever to get to cone 4, even longer to 8. But the top and bottom stayed even, so I was reluctant to mess with it. Finally got cone 10 at 7:45 pm. Went home, had supper, and went straight to bed.
By 8:30 pm, when I came back to light the burners, the rain was mixed with sleet, nasty, cold and wet. Wasn't too worried, though; the weather online said it'd turn to rain, tapering off around 7 am.
Woke up a little after 3 am to use the bathroom, and this was my view out the kitchen window.
That's a good four inches of snow down, more coming, fat, wet flakes.
We'd planned on me taking the van down to fire, as Denise needed the car for a meeting later today. Immediate change of plans. The car has four-wheel drive and anti-lock brakes; the van, not so much. I tossed and turned for about half an hour, decided I wasn't getting back to sleep, so rolled out again at around 4 am. Swept off the car, loaded up, and headed out. Slowly.
Surprisingly, River Road was actually plowed, up to the city limits (about two blocks south of our driveway). Didn't know Eugene even had snowplows, but saw the trucks coming up the northbound side as I turned onto Beltline. Beltline wasn't bad, though I kept it under 40; Delta Highway was much worse, so I came off at Sixth Street rather than continuing on to Coburg Road. Probably a good idea, though between snow and construction, the off-ramp was a definite challenge. One lane was cleared on Sixth, possibly by the EmX bus; Franklin was rather better, though Villard and 15th were ruts in snow, and I made the first tracks across the Maude Kerns parking lot.
It was 4:45 when I finally got here, to nice orange heat in the kiln. Had body reduction around 6:15, and the firing seems to be tootling along nicely. Also? As of 7:30, I measured six inches of snow on top of the kiln yard fence, and it's still snowing. Good thing I brought extra fruit and granola bars. I'm not going anywhere.
ETA: Aaand then it slowed down. Cones 04 and 1 dropped in good order, but it took forever to get to cone 4, even longer to 8. But the top and bottom stayed even, so I was reluctant to mess with it. Finally got cone 10 at 7:45 pm. Went home, had supper, and went straight to bed.