Mark C.

mostly smaller wares as well as a lot of 6-8# bowls

how do you do that? I can't even imagine.

throw hundred mugs dozen pie plates -20 whip pitchers-30 cereal bowls a dozen chip and dips-a few dozen large bowls-200spoonrests-100 sponge holders-its all takes clay and lots of it

That’s great! Hope it stays that way. 

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

my kilns are outside in large 30x40 covered roof area.open on two sides.

ENVY ... envy is what I've got!!

Saw some weird creatures in those waters.

sigh...............

Look out for nessie.

good time of year to go there. before the fires start and the smoke from forest fires is everywhere.

saw golden eagles -bald eagle s

prairie falcons-antelope with calfs-trout-lots of swallow tail spices-family of burrowing owls-seeder types of deer and many types of snakes

Sounds nice.

Ohhh. Fancy.

Isn't that why you have apprentices

By now you'd know not to have that delivery during holiday rush.

Potters are a buncha masochists that way, I've found.

sleepy molokai

busy Kona

trip was great

Buddy, you are the dang Energizer bunny.

When you post about slowing down; that means you are going to fire the 42Cf once a week instead of twice?

nice thing to do, Mark. Good of you to help her. 

marcia

I have used and liked her work for the past 35+ years. We had the same teacher.She can no longer lift a box of clay.

but a pug she can handle.She gave up shows long ago but still supplies a few outlets.

we're all getting older.

You have a good heart!

Marcia

Gratz! Back to work. Do less this year still the plan?

We shall see-glaze day in am

two gas kilns to glaze and load as well

I'm planning a vacation this year as well.Spent the day on the river saw two other fishermen-no bites but a great day in Redwood National park on the river

Nice. I haven't been fishing in ages. I used to crappie fish on the river every year when season struck. Nothing like sitting on a tree going into the river and catching a bucket load of fish.

It never ends-maintenance that is

I don't enjoy doing it but I sure love the results.

Concrete floors in my studio, after sweeping the dust- it gets hosed out.

Enjoy your time off. Maybe, when you are doing your dives, you could find one of those multi-million dollar shipwrecks...

Back in the 80s I was the researcher for a amateur underwater salvage co. and ran across an article on à California shipwreck. It crashed into the rocks along the coast and was sinking. Someone went by the office to find the purser stuffing his pockets with gold coins from the safe. He told him hey, you can't swim with all that money! I know that, all my life I wanted to die rich...nows my chance!

Sales where up this year

Diving in the ocean in these parts is a summer thing as the swell is big in winter,how big you ask last week 30 feet

I love that! Yes, I'm definitely a mud potter. If I had someone to do all the glazing and firing I would be so happy.

I'm TOTALLY a mud potter. I hate trimming and glazing, but throwing and decorating with underglaze? I could do that forever!

I love everything to do with the clay .... throwing, forming, coiling, trimming, carving, slip trailing. The glazing process I only tolerate because of the finished result.

How awesome!!

Congrats. I will look for it.

Yes- I agree, buy a lottery ticket!!

(ill take 20% for the suggestion)

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 that is why my lights blinked- you sucked all the gas from the power company!

Have the best show ever.

I have had my best shows this year .If they get any better my body will give out

More like I had a show worth and broke my arm and cancelled show so now I'm swimming in stock

Do you have space to store things until the next shows?

lots of space

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. 

Dive trips and underwater photo=lots of gear-I like traveling light and this is not that

pics- both above and under water please.

10 flights on this trip-one is 15 hours 45 minutes-Singapore to SFO

you need a backhoe, bobcat or something.

Forklift puts 2 tons into pickup truck -kid unloads into shed-5 trips to materials warehouse -really not that bad

Whew, I need a break just reading this.

The beach boys were playing in Berkeley two summers ago and I could listen to them while showering- I was staying in a dorm next to the concert venue!

This is not the beach boys its Braian Wilson and friends . He wrote all that music and is doing a final world tour at age 74

Sounds so good- wish i was there.

Busy as a bee in spring, or a potter, í ½í¸€

Busy as a bee in spring, or a potter, í ½í¸€

Hey you got the trifecta. í ½í¸œ

I am in Cal.the northern part where it rains a lot

Aha. Apparently I'm in the "wrong" part.

We're having a "warm" day today (ha, 38F), and the two feet of snow we got this winter is turning into a slushy, muddy, slippery nightmare. The water is flowing down the streets in rivers... it's blech!!

good luck. Hope you sell out.

How was the show, Mark?

This show runs for two weeks and its only my booth in a small shopping center in front of a pet store-I have been in the center for past 37 years the last two weeks before xmas.Its always a slow start building better till the end.

I'm fishing albacore-a tightly regulated fishery and they run 15-30#s-The ones you're thinking about are atlantic bluefin-its on the other coast

Ahh.. Good luck!

Do you ever sleep? lol

need some pics! YOu will have it streamlines I guess:-DD

Fish will be out on Tuesday

I would love to see pictures.