FINAL FRONTIER III

Whenever I run a bisque one of my big fears beyond pieces exploding (!) is the power going out. It happens here now and again with bad weather or extreme heat and inevitably if it is going to crap out there is a 97% chance that I will be running a kiln. Illustrated is a large terra cotta X&Os pasta bowl (or "supreme-size omni-bowl) fresh out of the bisque which took an additional few hours to fire due to a "power interuption" but to no ill effect. I have quite a few pots to fire over the next three weeks including tebori, slipware, sgrafito, snowberry, abstrakt resist and falling leaves in terra cotta and a group of stoneware and small batch white stoneware before any of them can be glazed. I guess since I am complaining about power outages I may as well interject that as I get these pieces bisque fired, there is a developing backlog of pots and I have learned my lesson about glazing and stacking pots in the past so now the big question is, where am I going to store these pieces in the meantime? I can make light all I want but there is no way around the fact that space truly is the final frontier.