At the studio just after 6am and brought Brenda, Leigh and Jin. Joanne and Leigh helped me load the salt kiln and I am so grateful. They helped make decisions on placement on each shelf and between us we loaded everything waiting for this last salt firing – except for a baker and bird bowl of mine and a bowl of Claude’s. I can’t complain – I have 40 pieces in. Now to wait, and salt this evening. The other 2 had to wait for the soda kiln to cool before they could load their cone 6 soda firing.
9.30am I returned my rented Nissan Sentra to Enterprise Rent-a-Car and they gave me a lift back to Medalta. It cost $251 with tax for a week and a week-end. It’s been a sanity saver!
Teresa took me over to Plainsman to return a box of clay and pay my bill. It turns out I’ve only used two boxes in the month, a box each of H550 and H570. The one produces nice orange peel and the other throws beautifully. Most of the work in the current firing is a mixture of the two. I’ll know in two days whether this was a good idea.
Picked up my Trumpeter Swan (cone 04 with Ball Clay terra sig) from our Residents’ Show. The slip-painted Flicker has sold.
Extremely hot day and all there is to do is clean up. Jim Marshall and Harvey Fix will give slide shows tonight but Claude and I may be salting just then.
As it turned out we were much later than expected so were able to see both slide shows. The salting went on until almost midnight and we turned off the kiln at 1am.
