Stress

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It's being a challenging firing. Dropped a kiln post on a peacock plate while loading, breaking it in quarters. Had to grind the first six kiln shelves, either glaze drops on top or chunks of kaowool beneath. And then, when I came in this morning, I'd blown up a cone pack. So I'm working off of the pyrometer, flame in the chimney, and the bottom cone pack, which is usually one cone cooler than the top. And all of the previous firings in my log book.

So far, it seems to be doing okay. Did body reduction ten minutes after I arrived, at 5:30 am. And now cone 4 is down on the bottom at lunchtime, actually pretty good progress.

Fingers crossed.