Mark C.

More free time this summer!

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.

i just tumblestacked a bunch of bowls based on your tumble stacks a long time ago. get so much in there.

Dang! You're a machine! I was proud of trimming/carving 8 big yarn bowls yesterday and trimming/handling a few mugs! Granted, I slipped everything, too, but still... geez!

May the kiln gods smile upon your firing

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

Mark, how many colors,, do you use on each piece,min average?

two is rare-4 is normal-5-6 on about 1/5 of the work.

Excellent. Many students usually sigh, when I tell them, I expect them to use multiple colors on a piece... As opposed to glazing the entire thing dark blue...

The wheel just keeps rolling around.

firing the small kiln (12 cubic) now and going to fire the 35 cubic car kiln in am

I know how much my 15 cf holds: cannot imagine filling a 35 cf'er.

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!!

I thought you got out of that?

So did I....

You need to learn the word NO-it really is powerful

Have fun, I'm working on test glazes.

It keeps you young and happy.

but I feel tired and old afterwards

Glad to see you taking time for you! I had 42 years in and almost forgot how to relax.

U catching local crabs and halibut!

10 hours of glazing and loading-mowed lawn moved a 1/2 ton into studio-burnt out now-life of a potter-not for the everyone

Nice!