Mark C.

toast to your batch of pots! My kiln is currently glazing as well. oooh the excitement

It's gonna be 95F here tomorrow--BLAH! It's never that hot here this early in June. Gonna be a scorcher this summer...

Pretty warm here right now too. Didn't run the AC much last Summer. We may be making up for that this year, as it's already running...

Me toooo.  We have quite the blizzard going on.  Glad to be home, not on the road, enjoying a warm fire and leftovers.

We are still in the 70's here,  it is suppose to start cooling down this week.   January and February are miserable,  do you really have snow falling or did you buy a snow machine.    Denice

no it snowed  a bit then in am turned to hail then rain.. The snow was enough to snap enough trees to close our major 2 lane road to the east for 3 days.That was about 15 minutes from here at high altitudes

Good to see you're keeping busy. How is the hand rehab going?

I start pinching this week-no restrictions on the lifting with other fingers. wrist is now getting strong again. I'l doing wrist curls with weights. I cannot center much clay into upper palm yet for months so have learned to center using other hand parts and areas. Will throw some 2# pots today-still using hot wax and ice. only a week or two left with rehab.I'm almost out of greenware to its throwing time again

Good to hear...hang in there and before you know it, you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner!

Good News!!!!  Glad you are mending well!

Well done! 

Good stuff!

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!

We got a ice storm overnight,  it thundered and lightning and rain a quarter inch of ice.   My son is visiting from Palau and is freezing.  Denice

We should have snow on the ground, and a week ago, we did.  Most of it melted over the weekend, and woke up to thunderstorms this morning. 

Last year at this time, it was in the 60s and 70s!

We had another ice storm last night,  we only had two cold nights last year.  It is suppose to be in the high 50's next week.   I only worked in my studio yesterday for a couple of hours, it was to cold and my heater wasn't cutting it.   Denice

So much for sitting down after 36 hours on a plane.

What are you going to use for modeling software?

Sure-sure: rub the heat in our faces.

lol You better come back you're missing all this glorious rain and flooding!

Jealous!

are you only crabby on monday? it is more fun to be crabby every day.

When Mark and Old Lady retire from potting, they should do a double act.

Dungeness crabs for eating from the ocean-we got 30

Have fun, I'm working on test glazes.

It keeps you young and happy.

but I feel tired and old afterwards

Monday is glaze day for me.two kiln loads

Doing better than me, I loaded biscuits with gravy- far as I got.

mixed 5 bucks of glaze this evening

it is nice but you have to calm down the animals because of the fireworks.

We have no animals at this time-first time in 40 years without a cat or two or a dog.

Enjoy the 4th and hope you have a good sale.

Enjoy it, you have earned it.

You lucky thing! Hawaii is so beautiful. Haven't been there in eleven years...

sounds great! Have a wonderful time in Molokai

Glaze firing small kiln now big kiln in am-doing two shows worth so I can head off to a tropical island between shows

How much total CF of kiln are you firing?

35 CF car kiln and a 12 CF updraft-usually do both kilns after a glaze day-last year 27 car kiln loads down from 35 loads a few years ago

Is that on track for your normal schedule, or are you actually scaling back a bit, like you mentioned?

Yes, should we congratulate you on slowing down?

Its the same as last year-I may have one more year-full speed then cut a few shows

I have lost an outlet so thats a bit less

Oh my word. I'm doing around one per month, or even every other month.

I'm in xmas mode too. four wholesale orders, three shows.

<3 you are so inspiring with your # of work!

You probably don't even bat an eyelash any more but ohhh custom orders make me so nervous!

NO more custom orders for me

Yup, I agree with Giselle. I get stomach aches and can't sleep well. But I get it done, when I do have them.

We're going to have a solid week of rain and the mudslides have already started.

pugaboo is snowed in. in Georgia if you can believe it.

The country thanks you for adding to our national GDP>

I think my tax money paid for a round of golf for the pres

We got the salt kiln lined today with fiber .

Really enjoy seeing the build in progress, thanks!  Can't wait to see how the pots come out. 

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?

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

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 .

Sounds good getting ahead to me Christmas kind of sneaks up on you. Decorations are already in the stores.

Good for you! September sneaks up on me every year still.

It dumped snow up here most of the day! *facepalm* Geez...

We got a tad over three inches, Guin. How much did you get?