Every once in a (very long) while, we take a wee bit of time away from our projects to travel. This past week, we spent in the glorious late-fall sun in Tennessee, visiting Nathan’s parents. The highlight for me was a trip to Cades Cove, now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Nathan’s […]
Archives for November, 2011
giving thanks
It was nearly two years ago this Thanksgiving week that our family and friends gathered on our farm to help us raise our kiln shed. We are so grateful to them for their support on that day (we finished raising 42 rafters just before the sun set!) and on the many days (ahem, years) that […]
cozy kiln
We are covering up all our pretty (hard) brickwork with ceramic fiber and soft (a.k.a. insulating) brick. Frankly, I’m not too sad to see it go after the past few months . . . the insulating phase means we’re one step closer to burning out the forms and seeing the brickwork where we really want […]
the chimney
Over the past few weeks, when asked what stage we were at with the kiln project, the answer was consistently “the chimney.” We knew it would be sizable, but it turned out we used over 2000 bricks! In fact, nearly every last hard brick to our name went to the cause. (We did manage to […]
