Mark C.

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. 

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.

and some home made apple cider later, YUM.

The cycle of business continues.

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...

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.

Lucky people of McKinleville!

Time to go on vacation.   Denice

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

Does a Mark C. fish photo exist on this site or elsewhere?

What are you using for a glaze? My wife makes a lemon-ginger marmalade that will work well

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

Here is all the how to with Brent equipment

glad the pedal is working well now.

https://www.amaco.com/equipment_how_tos

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.

I am going to try to get to your Anacortes show.

See you there -my booth is in front of the rockfish cafe 

319C, 320C
Between 3rd & 4th streets in the Center

Congrats on 45 years- hit the 45 year mark myself. 

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 .

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.

Total CF of both kilns is?

Nice to see you take breaks once in a while. 

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?!!

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

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