I was able to create enough work to fill the kiln again.  The pressures of the day job and summer family plans caused making forms to slow to a crawl.  As this can be frustrating at times, it fits me well.  And let me sing the praises of Laguna's B-Mix clay.  It has taken me some time for this clay body and me to become friends, but now that I have learned how to cope with the clay's intricacies, I appreciate how the clay is very slow to dry.  I can make a teapot body and keep it in a leather-hard state for weeks under dry cleaner garment bags. As I have been invited to be a guest artist at Windblown Studio during this year's fall Potters Tour, October 19-20, in Western Pennsylvania , I needed to kick up production during August and September.  For information on the Tour go to:  http://www.potterstour.com/index.htm I loaded the kiln on Saturday (28) and fired it on Sunday (29).  Here are a few of the kiln loading pictures.  I will post the results when I open the kiln