Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Too good to be true....

It had to be. The first firing of my kiln today and it didn't reach temperature in 9 1/2 hours. I shut it down. Should I have been more patient? I may have somehow caused the kiln to stall out in mid firing range, but I don't know. I will call Cress tomorrow and see if they can tell me if what I did (turned it up manually when the firemate control was automatically turning it up) could have caused it to stall out. If not, I'll have to try testing to see if all the elements are truly working or not.

A bit disappointing, but not too bad. The room got really hot - walls, ceiling... they are all going to have to be protected. I'm tired. I have to go to work tomorrow and, once again, I don't want to. It'll be alright once I get going, but I don't feel excited about it at this point. I'd rather solve this kiln mystery!!!

FACK!

In other news, I fenced off the small raised beds that we have because somebody's dog has been digging things up and one of my hostas is missing in action. Could be my dog, likely not, though. At least they don't have the option to dig it up anymore.

Off to bed.