Mark C.

You're lucky you live somewhere that allows you to do this. Also, that nobody vandalizes your cases overnight. Must live in a nice place.

My booth locks up really well.I posted a photo a few years ago of it here.And its in front of our locally owned pet store-has security some of the time as well in shopping center-just not 24/7

This is my 39th year in that shopping center-not sure how many more I want to do.

a few maybe. I build the booth in 2.5 hours today then add pottery in am for 1st start day. I made this lockable booth just for this location-store it the whole year just for this .

I remember seeing the photo of it, looked really good. 

The cycle of business continues.

Do you go ahead and fill the orders?   Denice

4 small mugs-yes as they are small enough for UPS not to kill right now.

The two large bowls No, I told them I would ship on the 26th.

They have much tougher panels now and the cost is is very low for a panel-I paid $195 for each 400 watt panel.

That is a  good price,  I think the small replacement blocks were a couple hundred apiece twelve years ago.  It would be nice to do something with all of the sun we get in Kansas.    Denice

Exciting stuff here.  What brand solar panels do you have?   I've been looking at Renogy.     If you don't mind, share more specifics?  The big ground array 40x13 ... is that a shed?   What controller you use?  Where you house the batteries and controller?   AGM batteries?   Thanks.

Looking at 4800 watts for $6500 system ... just looking ... no decision yet.  The 9600 sounds more useful.

Waiting for the governor's office to get me this small grant.   They said after Christmas because I need time to put specifics in my proposal.  Also, the power company said they would send someone out ... in case I wanted to recycle excess power (like you doubt I would have any). Or just to advise, they have someone that has the experience, once I have an outline of exactly what I will buy.

Mark are you talking about feeding frenzy of the crabs or your customers.  Have fun!   Denice

R&L Trucking brings my clay.   All of their trucks have a lift gate.   I have a little landing pad and an asphalt drive to the front of my studio.   My part time worker brings them in ... about 15 steps to inside storage.    I am thinking about a little pole shed there to store.  Right now we bring inside.   Could you have yours dropped at the shed? And I get my shipment 2k pounds a month.   Is there an economic incentive to order more?   I couldn't load that clay.   We take it out in 25 pound bags.  And that is so nice of you to help that friend.   You mix her clay from dry clay?

@DirtRoads the supplier I use charges less, the more you order.  So for a single box, it costs more, for that box, that it does, if I order ten of those same boxes.  I think once you get to the quarter ton mark, the rate is by 100 lbs.  A good deal, but it confuses me when I order, which is why I ended up with double, what I wanted, in my classroom this year...

Hmmm have to check this out.   Thx.

Nice! When do you break for holiday? 

Get a TV in there!   VOD is your friend.  How many days a week do you spend glazing versus making?

I seem to glaze and load two gas kilns on Monday-at least every other week in my slow time. I did this last Monday as well so thats 5 days making one glazing . I'm doing a 4th of July show and have lots of extra stock-so my plan is take 3 weeks off from glazing-which is an extra week. I need to go fishing .

It snowed here yesterday, and this morning we had wind chills near zero...

#**!!@^% its -10 here right now. The pond is still frozen. I'm feeding the poor robins and other birds. Not supposed to go over negative temps until Monday. Ice age anyone?

Today was warmer in the shop 48F., wearing insulated pants, base layer 2 sweatshirt. Throwing honey jars, and mugs lately. Don't ever seem to get warm even when back in the house.

Best wishes to you both, Mark. I hope your wife's recovery is speedy and that she has terrific results.

Best wishes to your wife and you.  Pretty soon she'll be running around with no pain.  

hope all goes well for both of you.   you realize that in the 2 weeks you will work you will outproduce most of us for the year.

So it is easier to "smoke" your salmon?

"Bad for mental health not to get a yearly reboot." Very true! Does the same thing for me getting away from everything.

We only got in about 1/4 the camping this summer that we usually do, mostly because it was next to impossible finding spots, partly because of the Canada/US border being closed to non-essential travel. 

No camping or traveling at all for us -we are taking this very seriously until its lesser . My offshore tuna trips-usually 150 miles  per trip-I invited two same age crew members-we wear masks all day except to eat and avoid one another as best we can.We all are staying home as much as we can.Done boat fishing now-3 tuna trips 49 tuna.Back toi other projects including making pots

and some home made apple cider later, YUM.

Time to go on vacation.   Denice

Actually time to do another out of state show then leave the country