Jeremy Noet and I met many years ago at a woodfiring when I was studying ceramics at a community college. He had moved down to Bellingham, Washington, from Alaska, where he had been studying ceramics in college before deciding to shift focus and take his clay journey into his own hands. The anagama kiln that he was firing then was the first kiln that he had designed and built when he was about twenty years old. Twenty years later, we met again, working at a community studio. In the meantime, he had become a full-time studio potter and had built many more kilns – catenary wood kilns, ceramic fiber kilns, and soda kilns – while I had gone on to study environmental science, work as a consultant, and raise a family. When I started taking classes again at a community studio, Jeremy happened to be my teacher. After working there for a few years, we wanted more space to work and decided to remodel Jeremy’s old home studio. After rebuilding the high-fire gas kiln that had been sitting dormant for several years, we realized that one of the only drawbacks of our new studio was that we didn’t have access to a soda kiln anymore.