Five small fixes for better pieces
The kiln opening is the one date we plan around, and the rest of the calendar bends to fit it. We stopped chasing perfect pieces around the time we started enjoying them. We changed one thing at a time and wrote it down, because memory is generous and notes are not.
A Sunday at the kiln yard taught us more than three weeks of reading about it. When in doubt we go back to the kiln yard and start from the last thing that worked.