Pres

Yeah, my wife fell while getting into the car. .alone. Laid under the car for 30 minutes before my daughter found her. Broke her hip, could have been worse as it was winter cold, icy, and I would not be home for hours. Didn't have her phone.

That must have been awful for your wife to lay in pain like that not knowing when someone would find her.  I was amazed how many people that drove by and waved as I laying on the sidewalk like a fish out of water.   I  at least had a nice warm day to lay around.   I have a new phone and ordered a tough case with a lanyard for it.  I am thinking about getting a hiking stick when I walk  in the yard and flower beds.  It wouldn't have helped with this accident but may prevent future ones.  I was taking photos of our 4'x5' Century Plant that has huge thorns,  I am glad I missed it when I tripped.  Denice

Things happen, as we get older we need to make adjustments. We were told getting old were the "Golden Years". nobody mentioned that they were tarnished!

Congratulations to you both!

Just as long as I have been married to clay -no ring to show for it

Congrats! Thats fantastic!

I,m only 9 hours away pres

I,m only 9 hours away pres

Mark, I would love to visit, but 9hrs is a bit tough. We fly into Sacramento then have the drive down, and the drive to kings and sequoia.

well done!

YOu would have heaps to contribute Pres.

Well done!

My issue has not arrived yet-Its always weeks slow in the west.

Pres- very much appreciate you taking the time to explain the details.

Oh my goodness! How annoying of Google!! Well anyway I very much enjoyed reading the post and watching the video and I am totally going to try it with larger quantities of clay. So helpful!

Thanks all. . .Pres

Enjoy sir and madam!

BonVoyage! and Congratulations!

You might consider an extra week of warmth

I feel for you if you got home with all the airport backups . from the tropics to a deep freeze . Should be warming up in day our two.It got into the  upper 30's last night here.

We are home! Got in last night at 2:30 after the drive from BWI. Weather last night was icy coming out, but as we got closer to home the temps rose, and it was a balmy 36 when we got in. This morning was 38, and all is good. They are looking for 50 by end of the week!

Sorry to hear it-glad that it sounds like there is hope for a light at the end of the tunnel--best wishes!

I used to work in a physio clinic. No one ever likes the foam roller, but the evil thing works!

Hammer massager worked quite well, and not that I have one I use it on my shoulders and legs a bit after a hot shower. Loosens things up well. Just have to be careful not to over do.

Assembled, now I am waiting on electrician.

When the old J236 broke down, it was in the middle of a firing. The cones had turned white, and the pots were all glaze fired, but lacked depth and appropriate hardness. I believe the kiln reached about 2150F. Therefore, I have enough of a load to fire in the new kiln. The old kiln would hold 2 patens(plates) at a layer with overlap of rims at different heights. The new kiln will handle 3 to a layer, and will handle quite a load of chalices at the top levels.  The first firing will not be packed, but will get me used to what is going on.

Congrats, Pres! 

great news! hee hee exciting....x

Hope that gave you some ideas Min. The grooves in the molding actually help me get pretty straight cuts as one groove is wide and I use the outside edge for cutting the end, and the inside edge for cutting the sides.

I like your molding idea to create the step in the base. In Canada butter mostly comes in 1 lb blocks so I'm thinking more of a box shape rather than a rectangle to fit part of a block of butter.

Sounds like it would work, pick your molding carefully. Mine was a window/doorway molding.

best,

Pres

49 was a very good year, and it make it easy to remember your age!

Glad you have these opportunities Pres.. They make for good memories. Lost my Father in 2010. This is the one part about getting older I dislike, loss of loved ones.

True. I lost mine in 2004 and 2009. Miss them both. After I retired for a few years I was able  to take them on trips for a few days in the Autumn to see the trees turning.   Glad I did it.

marcia

Pres, congrats! Those are beautiful tea pots. The gator is my favorite!

Gorgeous!

Very nice work...nice texture work.

Same knot, different name. Used to be used for reefing sails.

Yeah, I never was a sailor.Kayaks. I knew knots from Boy Scouts.

Tyler is an "Old Salt".

I like the bag o money season-then the time off.

Oh bbbaaaa Humbug Mark, such is the life of a hard working potter!

I have concrete everywhere. Right now, the ice is terrible! Have a post hole digger that has a 4" flat blade weighs about 15# so it will scrape up ice well without a lot of chopping work.

Just wait until the thaw

Not on a public sidewalk, we don't dare.

Saw the first one in the first Penland Craft Book of Ceramics. 

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" Years ago I saw a jar made bey the Larson's, I believe. remembered it over the years and stole the idea. "

And then more recently, I stole the idea from Pres...

Thanks Evelyne, will do

Got in at 1 am, power out at Fairfield. Slept on couch

til they could check me in. Roads were amess!

oh no!

there are 2 kilns advertised on craigslist for long island.  one has only one sentence about a paragon Dragon.  no phone number, posted awhile ago.   the other is for a paragon Viking and is current per a phone call this morning.   PRESTON, PLEASE CONTACT THEM.   SEE MY PM TO YOU.

Really will hold out for an L&L, mine is nearly 30 now and still runs great.. . . not sure of others out there. Thanks for thinking of me.

Pres

OK, i will stop looking.   it is just that kilns with controllers and all the shelves and other goodies do not come up very often so i jumped on it.   hope something L&L comes up soon.

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I would think they can be shipped up there. However, with you being on the West coast, it really isn't a good idea with the shipping.

I could have fired it without, but it will reach temp quicker this way. Gotta love L&L for the element holders.

I think I'm just going to have to covet your L&L from afar, can't really justify buying another kiln. 

I understand that, have been considering a new kiln, but the old on is 30 and doing well. I keep replacing whatever needs replacing.

Answers to Week 5 are posted

think there is a typo with your answer #1, it would be (b or 2) wouldn't it if the answer is leatherhard and water?

thanks min

yes. Hope it all works out.

Pres:

My Windows 98 (remember that version) is still purring like a kitten downstairs.

Yeah this machine of mine had a 6 core processor, and a 2 tb drive with a 120gb SSD drive. I had built it myself 5 years ago for 3D design and animation, along with running various other machines like a stencil cutter. It has run well,  but many times they do go POOF! Still trying to get the  new board up and running, but have help from the Mobo manufacturer.

best,

Pres

I always love those honey pots, quite the prettiest I have seen anywhere.

sounds fair for both parties price wise 

Hope so, as this is my first time with wholesale.

best,

Pres

I have never heard of using popcorn for packing material.   We just save the packing material we receive in the mail.   We just ran out of boxes and my husband needed to send a car part he had sold on E-bay.   To solve our problem decided to order some groceries from Walmart,  if you spend over $35 you get free freight.   So far we have received only a fourth of our order but it was in a nice sturdy box.   As  our order trickles in we will be getting more boxes,  I got a e-mail notifying me of a back order.  I am glad I didn't order anything I was in desperate need of.   Denice

We go out once in a while, I had to go to State College on Monday afternoon as I was running out of popcorn and bubble wrap. Groceries once every 10 days or so, masks, etc. Staying in otherwise.

I have been using popcorn for years. Haven't lost a pot as long as I compress the box and wrap pieces individually in bubble wrap. 

I was wondering if you also wrapped them in bubble wrap.

Call it OCD, call it whatever but; I have spent hours working with just a metal rib, then a wooden rib, then a silicon rib: just learning how much pressure and how each acts.

Pres, where do you post the questions?

Questions are in the Educational Approaches and Resources Section. Strand is pinned at top. . if I remember to!

send me info for next year pls

At this time there is nothing in the links.

Conference for 2014 was here

http://www.randolphartsguild.com/events/potters-conference-2014/