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Glaze week-spent time last 3 days glazing-arm is slowly getting stronger .Fired small gas kiln yesterday with glaze load -today load big kiln
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glad to hear you are healing. just do not overdo it. small things can be lovely. and profitable.
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Sounds like you're getting better by doing what you need to do. Best wishes!
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Have you been swimming? Don't let your shoulders forget their jobs.
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Have to cancel my next weekend art fair due to broken elbow 1st canceled show ever
(cracked radius bone)
I was in my old apple tree when a 5 inch limb broke and I fell about 7 feet.1st ever broken bone.Two weeks in sling no clay for at least a month. kiln is firing last glaze fire now.just coming to terms with this setback
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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.
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Yikes. Of all the times for something like that to happen! Speedy recovery, man!
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I packed up my small truck with every thing one needs to demonstrate pottery throwing .I am doing a live demo (11am -1pm at one of my organic market outlets in Mckinleville,Ca as its local products demo day . This is the 1st year my schedule has allowed this to happen.I have. not done this in 40 years or more
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What are the chances of your shooting some video of your techniques while you're at it and posting them here? I and many of the Forum members would love to see you in your medium...
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chances are zero-sorry I'm solo at this gig as my wife is in Colorado this week and I do not want to add my go pro to what I'm already doing.
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Lucky people of McKinleville!
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Two bisques out today -glaze day for 3/4 of day in am then I'm a volunteer tuna bbq guy at a local fundraiser-every Labor Day as long as I can recall.Nothing like BBQing for 100 plus folks.
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back in full production-two early fall shows and one big gallery order for far away.Glaze day on Friday
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packing -packing -packing
down to changing out boxes of forms in van which is always a bad idea.
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Unloading last two kilns on Friday for really big show out of state in a week.Packing dive gear into van as well.Then taking a summer break from clay for few weeks-hopefully catch some tuna during that period.
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Fish making day for Anacortes show in two weeks
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I love your fish! I wanted to let you know that I am finally becoming one with my wheel. I felt like my foot pedal wasn't working right, I told my fix it husband about it. He said I had never thrown on a electric wheel I just needed to get use to it. Someone posted a video about adjusting a Brent foot pedal, it said if your wheel kept running after you took your foot away it needed adjusting. Mine kept running. He took it apart and tuned and lube it, works like a dream now. Denice
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Here is all the how to with Brent equipment
glad the pedal is working well now.
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firing two cone 11 glaze fires on a hot day
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That’s great! Hope it stays that way.
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The kilns feel so much hotter in the summer than the winter. There is only a 20 or 30 degree difference in the room temp, It doesn't seem like you should be able to notice it when your firing in the 2000 degree range. Denice
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my kilns are outside in large 30x40 covered roof area.open on two sides.
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Glaze day as well as load two glaze kilns.35 cubic car kiln and 12 cubic updraft. Lunch break now .
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Another Glaze Monday
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Get a TV in there! VOD is your friend. How many days a week do you spend glazing versus making?
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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 .
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Summer must be here as the board is slow with less posts these days
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Monday glaze day-been nursing pulled back muscle all week
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ouch! Pulled the muscles down my right side a couple weeks ago, still need help loading the kiln and lifting boxes of clay. Hope you heal fast, hard to slow down isn't it?!!
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Could not put socks on for a few days and no I do not heal fast at 65 anymore. I took this week off from glaze firing and am only moving lighter loads.I may take two days to glaze and load two kilns this week instead of 1
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Sun and rain sun and rain-up to 34 inches for the year for rain less for the sun
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Mark is that the average rain fall you get every year. We have had a little over a inch of moisture since last November. I just noticed that you had your 65th birthday in March, congratulations. I had my 65th October 15 last year. I am going to draw off of my husbands Social Security, I will get more money that way. I have to wait until I am 66 and he has to enroll also. My husband is still working and is retiring next October. Denice
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