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I thought that this awning was going to be harder then it was. I managed pretty well with the help of the one armed man.

Rescued!!!

George Thomas, friend and director of NC State's Crafts Center, came to my rescue and helped finish out the chimney of my kiln. He is my hero.

Set back

Pete was at a catering job trying to get a giant ice cooler out of the back a van and the handle broke sending him shooting out of the back onto the cement. He tried to break his fall with his right hand to avoid hitting his head. Well....he didn't hit his head. He has two fractures and a possible torn ligament. Another xray on Friday will reveal the next step.

Chimney.....again.

We finally got back to rebuilding the chimney and used a plum bob to keep it straight. The next thing will be to put castable over the door arch to stabalize and keep the fiber blanket back from the front of the kiln and our lungs.

Gas tank......

To keep things moving along Pete is working on the burners and we had our gas company move the tank to the next site.

Chimney.....

We counted the brick only to find that we would not have enough to get through the roof.......well just damn! Tim Turner, another potter, came to our rescue with a piece of culvert pipe from his brother. Yeah!

Of course then we got almost finished stacking the brick for the chimney only to find that there was a serious tilt of about 6 inches............well just DAMN again. So I took it down and we will be mortaring it the next time. But it's raining.

Kiln

We were able to get enough from the salvaged brick for a door but it had to be mostly halves which made the door scary. There was no way to lock the two layers together to prevent the brick from falling if it got bumped. So we managed to come up with some money to buy new brick. There is a supplier near Seagrove who has 75 and is locating the 25 to fill the order.