It's a bit of an ongoing jigsaw puzzle loading a bisque kiln. The pieces can touch, can fit lip to lip if they are of similar size, and small pots can fit between stacks of large ones. It's absorbing to figure out as it goes along, but it is SO unexciting it isn't funny.
Conversely, I do not seem to be able to load a bisque kiln often enough. New work! I want to see new work! But my pace is not the speediest. Also, it's been so humid that drying is going like the proverbial tortoise. I have a dehumidifier going in the kiln room where the rack of ware is standing. But still.
Some weeks are like that.
Drying their underglaze feathers on my slab roller table and socializing are a flock of new birds.
(Porcelain birds with underglaze colors, drying before being put into a bisque kiln. Photo: Mimi Stadler)
They will sit between the pots in the bisque kiln wherever there is space.