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Clay Flambé
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Minter of NFPs (non-fungible pots)
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Wood-fired ceramics, mostly
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Mushie pics, in season
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Disobeying in advance
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Here to heckle coup plotters and collaborators
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A well-sodaed bagwall mug from the second chamber
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I wasn't happy about the scar left after dremeling out the refractory kiln snot that fell into it from the arch
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Now, it's just a kiln mark/gift
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Not the same story without it
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Another pound mug from this past summer's wood fire
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A little dry under the handle, but a little unadorned clay is OK
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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A pound mug from last summer's wood firing
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Put together two more shelves
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One for clay--the boxes needed to be off the floor
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One for glaze buckets--they needed to be inside the pottery so they wouldn't freeze
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Finally started a new six-month making cycle with some kilo porcelain bowls
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire
Three pottery wheels inside a pottery I built 2½ years ago, in front of a black utility shelving unit on which 50 lb boxes of bagged clay are now stored. A few partial bags sit on the floor to the right, waiting to be heaved up top of the shelves Yellow utility shelving unit at the front of the pottery, on which buckets of glaze are now stored Four kilo bowls thrown from Troy porcelain this afternoon. I make around 200 pots over the cold months. Come late spring I'll fire them in my combo anagama/noborigama wood kiln for 3½ days, along with another 300 or so pots thrown or hand built by other potters
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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First autumn snow
Snow on dead ferns under birch and pine trees, with a gun blue overcast sky above
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Yesterday at Head Beach
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The oblate spheroid continues to spin
Doubling Point Light in Arrowsic. Built in 1898
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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A local tour
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Fiddlers Reach fog bell, sans fog; eagle condo for rent on Goat Island; flippered Kennebec water dog on the rocks; Squirrel Point, Arrowsic's red light district
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Burned some slash
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Opposed to slash and burn
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Olive oysterling
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S. serotina
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#mushrooms #wildmushrooms #rambleinthebramble
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Mouses' houses
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
One and three-quarters beehive stacks of split hardwood. Where I started today Two beehive stacks of split hardwood. A little less than 3 1/2 cords. Where I finished the day, after deciding to complete the top of the closest stack with some four-ft long sticks. It looks very halloween-ish to me, like a witch's hat
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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So "holzhausen" already sounds plural
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My German is non-existent
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So plural would be holzhäuser?
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Think I'll just call them beehive stacks, when they're done
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
October 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Sometimes it's worth refiring
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Woodfired bowls on a weathered hemlock board. The pair in back were fired thrice. The pair in front were fired "forthce"
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Finished the hardwood holzhausen
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It will cure for a year, be ready to help fire the kiln next fall
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I'll use the wood under roof in the background to fire next spring
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
A circular stack of firewood known as a holzhausen. It's composed of freshly cut and split hardwood, mostly oak and maple A cord of wood is 4'x4'x8', or 128cu.ft. The cylindrical part of the stack is 7' across and 5' high and the volume of a cylinder=π•r²•h, so: 3.14x3.5²x5=192cu.ft., or 1½ cords. So about 1⅔ cords I figure, counting the roof The wood under roof in the back of the holzhausen is drier, and will be ready by spring. Probably burn six or seven of the nine cords stored there next May
October 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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A costume, some signs, and a t-shirt from earlier today, brought to you by citizens who love their country
October 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Started building a holzhausen on top of four pallets with overflow hardwood, mostly oak, maple and cherry
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There's still some room under the wood storage roof for pine or other soft wood
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PSA: No Kings (or Nazis) this Saturday (or ever)
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire
A hollow, half-built circular woodpile--a holzhausen, or beehive stack--made from split logs of oak, maple, black cherry and a little yellow and paper birch, sitting on top of wooden pallets and concrete blocks. Currently about four feet high. The inside will be filled with wood, and the outer wall will move inward, like the top of a beehive, from this point on. Final dimensions will be some seven feet in diameter and the same in height The inside of the holzhausen, to be filled with more split hardwood Split wood under roof for next year's firings. Softwood (pine, spruce, hemlock) on the left, hardwood (oak, maple, cherry, beech, birch) on the right. There's room on the left for some more pine still to be split. Because I burn half hard, half soft, I try to keep one side exclusively for each. Hard for the heat, soft for the ash Two piles of logs still to be split. Pine in the foreground, mostly maple behind
October 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Maple, pine, oak, and more maple
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Wood processing for the kiln occupies me for several weeks in autumn
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It will be placed under roof to dry over the winter, to be ready for firing in May
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Oh yeah
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FDT
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
A cord of split silver maple Maybe a face cord of white pine rounds from three dead trees I felled and bucked yesterday A cord of red oak. Broke down and bought it Another cord of silver maple bolts and rounds, waiting to be split
October 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Holy Hen, Batman, this one's so immaculate it's glowing
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Does anyone else find it hilarious that the Regime is jealous that another right-winger in a different authoritarian"shit hole" country won the Nobel Peace Prize?
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#henofthewoods #mushrooms #wildmushrooms
#rambleinthebramble
G. frondosa, basking in the sun
October 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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An oribe refire
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It was slip and shino on the exterior, the first time through the flame
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And FDT for trying to create the very conditions for which he might invoke the Insurrection Act
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What mirth there must be in Zhongnanhai and the Kremlin
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A handsome mug and the kiln it was twice fired in
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Oh yeah
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And FDT for being such an irredeemable fuckwad, and double that for all his enablers, psychopaths every last one, for making so many lives worse and for what
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
One side of a darkly-slipped mug lined with gold shino. Standard 182 white stoneware body. Some gold shino sprayed over the spots on the outside that were too dry the first time through the flame The other side of the same mug
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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More than a few winners visible in there
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
Front stack of the soda/second/noborigama chamber Back stack of the soda/second/noborigama chamber
October 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Waiting for the kiln to cool
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So here's a trawler coming about in the Kennebec at the mouth of the Winnegance in front of Maine Maritime near sunset
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Calming, unlike the regime's fascistic distractions
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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A little foraging story in pictures
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#mushrooms #wildmushrooms #maitake #henofthewoods #grifolafrondosa
Two nice hens at the base of an ancient fallen red oak. I found them five days before harvesting them, when they were still quite small, and hid them under a very large piece of bark that had already peeled off the trunk--not to keep them out of the pieholes of other foragers, but to keep them from being munched by deer Two kilos of cleaned hens in a large porcelain bowl. It didn't take long to process them, as I got to the mushies before the roly-poly bugs That's not to say there weren't other smol critters needing encouragement to find new homes Cooked mushroom pickles in a large pot--enough for gifting once canned and to last my wife and me through the year I used forager chef Alan Bergo's recipe, to which I added cilantro and various hot peppers for more of a kick Pepper varieties visible in the photo: red and yellow Ho Chi Minhs, a green serrano, and the only ghost pepper I managed to grow this year, having planted a little late
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Réduction much?
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Second day after mudding up
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You can still feel the heat standing a meter away
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
Soot-blackened kiln chimney with three soot-blackened plates resting on a ledge above the chimney's active damper and bracing made from angle iron and all-thread. The incomplete combustion coming from flame licking out of the passive damper, now closed with brick and mudded newspaper, was the soot source
September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Fired 37 hours, burnt four cords of wood
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Hard to ramp, using just the side stokes--too slow, but we got where we wanted to go
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Next time we load just the 2d/soda chamber, I'll build a campfire in the chimney or preheat with a propane tank
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#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire
September 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM