but it has been very busy since my last posting. There simply aren't enough hours in a day to do all I want to do. Then suddenly it's 3 a.m. and I just make myself go to sleep so I can wake up around 9-ish. This week I put in a lot of hours at the museum (TMA) and a few at 577. I've also been bringing home pots from TMA to sgraffito (scratch designs on) and cutting linoleums for prints late into the night. Both the TMA Pottery Studio Sale and Holiday Angelwood Gallery show dates are looming and I need to get as much new stuff done for them. Being able to sell pottery will be a first for me.
Also next month is another 577 wood kiln firing and I'm almost finished getting things ready for that. This week I also put some pieces in the UT/TMA wood kiln firing at 577 since they had extra space. However I wished I had gotten some new things made, instead I put in things I had made at 577 that I wasn't particularly crazy about. The all-day firing is today. Fortunately I am not required to be there but I'll certainly be there for the unloading next week.
I am feeling obsessed about pottery, it consumes me. There is so much I want to accomplish but there is such a delay (weeks) in knowing if something is working or not because there are so many steps in the process where things can go wrong. So the more I do, my odds improve that there will be some gratification in the end. My results recently were split 50/50 between success/failure. I'm still figuring out what glazes, underglazes and slips will work for my pieces. I need Tim to take some new photos for me.
Last week I enjoyed a pleasant girls night out with Linda S. and Bonnie. We explored a few little shops in BG, Helena and Pemberville. We hope to do something like that again soon.
Nothing could top the time Tim and I had at the Eagles concert this past Wednesday evening. It was a birthday gift for Tim which I got to thoroughly enjoy. They were just fabulous, our seats on the side stage were so close we could see it all and they couldn't have sounded better. Don Henley, who has always been my fave, was perfection and Joe Walsh was the hard rocker of the group was also exceptional. The full-house audience knew every song except for 4 songs off their latest CD. The title track, Long Road Out of Eden was one of the great new Henley songs. They didn't get to sing every one of their hits because there have been so many although they played for 3 hours. Just momentous.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Autumn color
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| The backyard and where is that rain we were supposed to get? |
It's back to fall-like weather and plenty of
color. I was beginning to wonder if
my mums (variety shown: Soft Cheryl)
would ever bloom and that warm weather
we had earlier this week made them all
bloom. Another freak flowering was my
one iris plant. Until now, it has never
bloomed in the fall and never twice in
a season.
Great sleeping weather, just wish Jerry felt better. Back for another glucose panel at the with Tiffany the vet on Friday.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Just a progress report
It's October already and we'll be celebrating Tim's birthday tomorrow at the usual place, seafood or Italian at the docks.
Love this cooler weather but it does mark the wind-down of the gardening season. Just recently I grew and picked a fall harvest of giant pole string beans (seeds provided by Louise, a pottery friend). She said they would surprise me and they did, not tough at all, as you would imagine, and almost sweet. I'll be saving some seeds. I'll be able to grow them on my home trellis next year. I moved some of my 577 perennial herbs over to my kitchen garden. I need to start cleaning up and mulching that garden at 577 this week.
Christopher is here again, working on the privacy fence so we'll be able to contain my one neighbor's sprawling thicket and hide their broken-down split rail. He's a brute, hand-digging all those holes. Next year, I envision removing some of the ivy ground cover and planting, if possible, a espaliered fruit tree.
Jerry is still out of sorts—he's feeling perkier however he's not well. He was always the chow hound and these past 2 weeks he has been so finicky and lost about 3 pounds. Three pounds is a lot for a dog his size.
He's back at the vet all day for series of glucose testing.
Pottery and prints are keeping me busy. Cheryl C. purchased from me a commissioned print of her pug Lollipop, aptly named "My girl Lollipop." I was happy with the way it turned out however I hate dealing with pricing and the money exchange. Cheryl appears to like it too. She will be returning for the winter to Hilton Head at the end of the week. This saddens me because she is really a joy to be around. Last week, she invited Julie, Nadia and I over for a lovely lunch at her home in Maumee. She is a fabulous cook and baker.
This weekend we finally saw Scott H. It had been a long time since we got together. Went to his opening at Bozart's on Friday where we saw other artist friends as well. Also met Scott, Renee and Carl at Moe's in Rossford Saturday night. I'm hoping we'll stay in touch now. Tim and I had been out of the loop since moving to Perrysburg.
Now working on more sgraffito pots as well as some wood-fired pieces since there is a wood kiln firing early November. Classes at the museum are going well.
Love this cooler weather but it does mark the wind-down of the gardening season. Just recently I grew and picked a fall harvest of giant pole string beans (seeds provided by Louise, a pottery friend). She said they would surprise me and they did, not tough at all, as you would imagine, and almost sweet. I'll be saving some seeds. I'll be able to grow them on my home trellis next year. I moved some of my 577 perennial herbs over to my kitchen garden. I need to start cleaning up and mulching that garden at 577 this week.
Christopher is here again, working on the privacy fence so we'll be able to contain my one neighbor's sprawling thicket and hide their broken-down split rail. He's a brute, hand-digging all those holes. Next year, I envision removing some of the ivy ground cover and planting, if possible, a espaliered fruit tree.
Jerry is still out of sorts—he's feeling perkier however he's not well. He was always the chow hound and these past 2 weeks he has been so finicky and lost about 3 pounds. Three pounds is a lot for a dog his size.
He's back at the vet all day for series of glucose testing.
Pottery and prints are keeping me busy. Cheryl C. purchased from me a commissioned print of her pug Lollipop, aptly named "My girl Lollipop." I was happy with the way it turned out however I hate dealing with pricing and the money exchange. Cheryl appears to like it too. She will be returning for the winter to Hilton Head at the end of the week. This saddens me because she is really a joy to be around. Last week, she invited Julie, Nadia and I over for a lovely lunch at her home in Maumee. She is a fabulous cook and baker.
This weekend we finally saw Scott H. It had been a long time since we got together. Went to his opening at Bozart's on Friday where we saw other artist friends as well. Also met Scott, Renee and Carl at Moe's in Rossford Saturday night. I'm hoping we'll stay in touch now. Tim and I had been out of the loop since moving to Perrysburg.
Now working on more sgraffito pots as well as some wood-fired pieces since there is a wood kiln firing early November. Classes at the museum are going well.
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