It’s 4:17 on Friday the 28th and I’m in the glazing area of my studio working on some of the last mugs to be in the Sustainable Craft Fair. I hear the sound of something falling and wonder what it was. I am also ten minutes away from finishing a glaze firing and turning off my kiln. I walk into the kiln area and look around–nothing seems amiss. Then I decide to peek in the kiln and see if the last cone has gone down and I should turn the flame off. Where are the cones? […]