Off the Porch and Growling

Breathe in, hold it ...aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhh !!!!!

Supercali - fricking - nasty word - fragilistic gods damned - expiali - freaking - docious!

There I had to say it, cleanly and get out everything I needed to say. This last weekend I had placed two pots into the hands of the kiln goddess, and I had hoped for kiln gifts, much loved and desired. Ah hell, such is the fate of men. Apparently my pot (my emphasis) exploded, yes I said EXPLODED! Needless to say I was abit non-plussed ... this had been a brand new bag of clay, even if I did refer to it as craptastic ape poop in a previous post and it was not reclaim or even hand wedged clay.

knock, knock --hello McFly. 


I couldn't even stay to see the pig pot come from the kiln. I was so angry and so disappointed and generally just twisted around the axle I didn't take picture one. I will when I go back Saturday and I will try to get an angle so one can see what the pot should have looked like and then I'll post all the ugliness. The upper left picture is what it should have looked like.

.... So and so, I fumed all the way home weee weee freaking weee.

Logging onto the web after attempting to become human by taking a hot shower, I went directly to the manufacturers website; and I quote "Our accurately formulated, completely mixed, pugged and de-aired MOIST clay bodies are packaged in plastic bags, two 25-lb. bags per carton." end quote.



I suppose, somehow when I was blinded by evil clay gremlins who then waved in the terrible bogarts who injected air into my pot while cackling madly. Uh huh, not bloody likely. Unfortunately as sometimes happens I got a bad bag of clay.


Here's asking the Kiln Goddess to please spare my pig pot.    
Be kind lady of the Kiln I beg you.
The heart can't take it.

** Note ** (8/4/2012)  :: As you can see, it looks terrible where you can see the closeups of whatever nastiness occurred. I don't suppose I will ever know why, it just suprises me since I would have expected air in the "body" of the pot, not the handle, especially when the handle was a cut one piece affair lightly pulled.