Mark C.

ok the Bali dive trip is going to be cancelled as I need 6-8 weeks to heal well. no work with arm for 3 weeks but I can use it lightly in 3 more days-just gentle  use.Doc said since I do not drink or smoke and have lifelong love of milk I will heal fast .Friends are toto tilling winter garden with 91 gallons of apple pressings into soil for me.

Yikes.  Of all the times for something like that to happen! Speedy recovery, man!

Here's to a quick recovery Mark!

I know, that scaling back on work, might not be the norm for you, but healing is something that you want to get right.

Hurt by an apple tree.  Now I have images of those tree from the Wizard of Oz, throwing apples at Dorthy and crew.

Sorry to hear that Mark. We did this for a pet bird a few years ago- my daughter still has the ashes.

I'm very sorry Mark. A kindred loss is never easy. Blessings and condolences to you and your family.

Sorry to hear about the loss of your cat. Having had and lost 8 cats over the 40 years, I'd like to say it gets easier but it doesn't. I'm sure there is a kitten at your SPCA just waiting for you to bring it home. Hang in there!

Have fun!  (I used to teach scuba diving ... if you can believe that ... lol another life time .... omg it took me 7 years to get thru undergraduate I did so much diving)

and you will come back with a lot less so overload won't be a problem!

His booth was poppin when we stopped by and it wasnt even 11 yet!  Nice meeting you mark and good luck with the rest of the weekend!

I've been playing the avoid-the-paperwork game.

Well there is one alternative they say

Best wishes Mark.

I'd like the spam, spam, spam, baked beans, and spam without the baked beans, please.

another attack tonight

I wonder, are the attacks coming from North, or South Korea?

Hmm I just arranged a u haul truck for one of my clients last week ... recall that a 20 ft truck holds like 14 tons. Rental was only $39/day and 69 cents a mile ... you would probably pay for it in trips save?

(we needed a little more cubic feet so for like $30 rented a cargo trailer that we pulled with the truck)

I think renting a truck would be worth it!

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.

yuk! I had that in Nov. Best cough/sore throat with no side effects medicine, if you can find it is Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa. (Chinese herbal). get well soon!

That will teach you to go crabbing in below freezing weather...

it was worth it

Thank you Giselle. Using a gallery photo worked for me too.

I just did it. Upload the photo into an album, publish it and go to options and "set as photo"

Thanks, Mea!

Thank you for the reply as I have concern for noticeable arthritis in my hands. I've only been a part-time potter for 8 years, but also a hairstylist and have a family history of arthritis. Both of my thumb joints ache as well as my wrist; fortunately not all at the same time! I don't feel I'm at the point for surgery but it's good to know you'll be able to find relief. I've had carpal tunnel and trigger finger surgery and those were a walk in the park as far as rehab. My other surgeries were longer recoveries and self-induced; a titanium plate and pins from playing roller derby and knee surgery from Ultimate Frisbee. I was back to work in 3 months and on the frisbee field in 5. I live in PA and found a good hand surgeon at Hershey Medical Center, tho I'd travel further for someone like your doctor. You seem like a committed potter, so how do you  plan to spend your rehab, for the sake of sanity?!

I spend every day rehabbing as I cannot make pots or go diving or fishing so its all in on rehab. I did done mention my arthritis as at my age and potting we all have it. E=when They cut you open they scrap it out and its gone for some years in that area. same will be true this time. Carpel tunnel and trigger finger are very fast recovery surgeries. The woman at Yale to see if you think you need hand work is Lisa Lattanza-head of hand surgery dept. I would see her as she is close to you-See will elevauate and only do surgery if you need it .She will not do it if unnecessary-she is commited to finding the issue and getting to whats needed and whats not. Do not expect bedside manner talk just the real deal with your issue. 8 years of pottery should not be to much the holding scissors up can do things.

My hand doc didnt have bedside manner either but that doesn't concern me. Best wishes to you!

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

we drove down from Red Lodge 180 miles. Had 2 minutes of totality and not much in the way of traffic.

looking forward to your photos. I used a digital camera for a totality shot.

Viewed eclipse at local living History Farm Museum.I set up a small display

.....helped in their gift shop, and sold a few things.Viewed the eclipse until the last sliver of the moon cleared the sun. Many hit the road after totality creating bumper to bumper congestion.

This forum is probably the largest repository of information on every aspect of all things ceramics. I suspect people are doing searches in lieu of asking questions. Of the 28,000 plus members, less than 100 post on a regular basis.

Yes.  I got 2 responses on my productivity question from people who have never posted here.    They actually went to my website.  One of them has 28 employees.    I have another forum member that's on my Face Book and chats occasionally, who used to post here.  I guess some people don't post on forums. 

Same here. I get more questions in my PM or direct email, than I do in the forum. Not exactly sure why, but I suspect most members do. Would imagine Mark gets alot of them given his production history.

Glad to hear that things went well. Shudder to think of the damage some places had to deal with. Best of the season was with you!

Pres

Glad there was only minimal damage.

OMG didn't realize it was that close to you.   Glad you're okay.

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.

glad to hear you are healing.  just do not overdo it.  small things can be lovely.  and profitable.

Sounds like you're getting better by doing what you need to do. Best wishes!

Have you been swimming? Don't let your shoulders forget their jobs. 

It was stoneware very fine grain threw great they gave me some and I'm drying it out to lighten it as I have 150#s of camera and dive gear already on this trip for the two weeks of diving ahead in Indonesia

Oh Marc, you are in Cambodia? You lucky guy!! We need pictures.

Ditto on the pictures

got the melatonin ready-twelve flights on the whole trip

Have a wonderful time.

Best wishes.

would trade the humidity for a week as I have cracks in my fingers from our dryness.

over 22 inches nw

humidity meter in shop says 37%-the heater has been on for weeks

orange press mold for sale-- you supply the oranges, and I will do the pressing.

We kept 7 gallons the rest went away in 1/2 gallon containers

Cheers!

Its the warmest night we have had in weeks its 60 degrees out at 8 pm-starting to rain.

I realize most of the country is in a deep freeze just not us on the west coast .

We need rain badly.

I haven't been in the studio in 2-3 weeks. I just don't like working when its 40 degrees out there. I am a wussy. I have other things I have been doing so it isn't like I am wasting time though.

Mark we are in a drought also, they are predicting a drizzle Sunday but I will believe it when I see it.  My son is coming home for a visit in the middle of February,  his grandmother hasn't been well.   He is afraid she might not be around when they move back home from Palau.  She is having her 95th birthday  in February.   Are you still having a great vacation?   Denice

Love it. Your so awesome.

made the drop-I posted a photo on a thread as well

What thread Mark.

And here I thought it was just me and my PO$ Windows 8 giving me problems again! You weren't alone in uninstalling and reinstalling stuff left, right and center Babs!

Going to the forums page was like going to the coffee pot and finding it empty!

It was another hack I'm guessing

LOgic behind this?? Can't handle the success??:-))) Or just jackhammer blues on the Highway?

Best wishes and thank you.

No, way. I want one of your mugs, dangit!

Madse the same road drive over 100 times with 3 shows that way-nothing fun about it.

I'm sorry it not fun, but it must be worth the drive, yes?

The show is fun the drive is work