and then the tidal wave hit!

Bam! And I hit the wall!
I have been waylaid by one of my rounds of vertigo that hit me right out of left field Tuesday night and laid me up for a couple of days.
Dr. visit, drugs and time.
I am much improved as I can now walk somewhat of a straight line and get from point A to point B with out feeling like I am on a ship during a massive storm.
Here is another quick look in the kiln of pots on their way over to the gallery/store.

 And what are these?
Frogs of course!

 Funny looking frogs but frogs they be.
If you arrange flowers you will understand these frogs.
Back to moving around.
Cheers,
M

Part two

5. If you know me you know I love to cook and I will taste or try just about anything.
But I don't understand the sushi crazy, if I wanted a bowl of rice I would order a bowl of rice.
I don't like raw meats, fish, and you can have my wasabi.
I will eat a spider roll and I do like cooked eel.
But you lose or win out if you take me for sushi.
There are just better things to eat in my book.
Keep your raw oysters and hold the blue cheese.

6. While we were trying to get the pottery off the ground I worked at the NC Zoo in the gift shop, a  local daycare and a local plastic factory.
In the factory I was making clean parts for hospitals. I suited up daily for the job with a white coat, hair net and booties over my shoes. You only saw the round of someone's face. You hardly knew what they looked like or even what color their hair was. I once ran into someone who seem to know me and was chatty away when she said, "oh, you don't recognize me." she reached up and using both hands hid her hair and just showed me the round of her face.
YES! we worked together. I worked on heavy machines that if you were not careful could and did remove fingers and hands. I was shocked by the hour with static electricity and I was making 5.15 an hour. Thank goodness the pottery starting paying the bills.

7. Mark and I worked together at another job before the pottery.
Just out of high school we both took a job with Mister Softee  ice cream.
Year one we ran a truck together.
Year two I ran my own truck and we were, don't laugh, Mister and Misses Softee, I have a newspaper article to prove this.
We ran a truck in the projects of Portsmouth Va. and have many tales of the people and job some funny and some not so funny.
It was crazy good money but could be at times dangerous.
Yes, selling ice cream in low rent neighborhoods when you are 18 and 19 seems like a blast and at times it was. But, when you go into some places some folks are not thrilled to have you there. Others become like friends you recognize anywhere, but after being robbed at gun point and having a fellow employee shot we left. It was time to move on and I went back to a job I had all through high school and Mark was doing day labor for a big company. We would one day pack up all we owned in the 1956 Ford, Jubilation T Cornpone, and hit the road.
While in Tennessee I would go to work for the number 3 store of Ruby Tuesdays.
Believe me it resembled nothing like it is today... but those are all stories I will tell if you come over for drinks.
And now we have to continue this for another day while I think about the bloggers I will pass this on to.
So wake up if I have put you to sleep!
Cheers!
M

Jubilation T Cornpone

Jubilation T Cornpone and Mark

The Tepee

busy week at Lake Whynot

It has been a busy week here at Whynot.
The new kiln has finally arrived.
We had thought we would have it delivered in January.
Mother nature had other plans in store for us all.
We kept tabs weekly with the folks up in New Jersey through email and phone calls.
And- every week it snowed on ship day.
Finally no snow there this week and out she went.
But we had heavy rain yesterday so she is sitting all boxed up on the carport waiting to go in her new space.
She will be in good company with our smaller L&L kiln.
Mark is hooking up the vent system today.
YEA! Then the fun begins.
WE have sold one of the used kilns but have two more if anyone is interested.
These could also be used stripped down for Raku or soda...just think of the possibilities.
And get in touch with us.

put a chicken on it!

I spent the past week working on a glaze load for the small electric kiln.
Tiles, butter dishes, tea caddies, those two teapots and lots of doo-dads or should this be do-dads....
I turned the table we had used for the tile mural into glaze central and just covered it from one end to the other.
Messy stuff this glazing.
I make myself crazy with this stuff thinking of all the ways to glaze the tiles.
Then I tell myself to just do something, anything otherwise you will still be sitting here a year from now.
Its only clay- get busy!

Julia over at Henhouse Pottery and Tinstar Farm has given me an award and said nice things about me.
Thanks Julia!
I love reading Julia's blog about her life.
I live through her.
Mark and I had our own little farm dreams when we moved here and I miss the small lively livestock we use to raise.
Through Julia I can pretend I am back there without going out in the cold to feed real animals.
I am to share 7 things about myself that you might not know.
Hummm as much as I talk what would you not know about me.
Did you know we raised Pigs, goats, rabbits and sheep?
Did you know I baked all our bread, made yogurt and thought I was mother earth... humm yea, you say- you can tell I am nothing but an old hippie.
I guess I will have to dig deeper.

1. I wanted to be a midwife and even helped bring a few babies into this world.
Then one day I thought about if I could truly handle a difficult birth.
The answer was no.

2. My other passion is children and I thought I would be a pediatrician.
I am baby crazy and will talk to anyone under the age of 5 anywhere at anytime.
They speak my language. I use to embarrass, my job, my own family by stalking out babies at any public place.
Then again see number one- I want nothing to go wrong and all to be right so being a Doctor would not be in my line of work.

3. I like a good trashy novel, blood, a little gore and throw in some murder and mystery and I am there.
I wish I read better just like I wish I ate better ,but, there you go we all need a little junk in our lives.

4. Mark and I traveled around in a 1956 Ford Pickup truck with a wooden house on the back of it.
Camping from Va. to Colorado and back again. This was back in BC- before children.
We ended up living in Tenn. in a Tepee for awhile before we embraced electricity and running water.
I like them both very much and we sold the Tepee and the Ford.
Still miss the Ford it was a great truck.
Don't miss the Tepee.

Seems I am at a standoff with my brain so I think I will do this in two parts.
Otherwise we will be here for hours.
So to be continued more about me,
(enough about you let's talk about me...!)
and awards to fellow bloggers....
seems I have some thinking to do.
Cheers!
M

storms

It was stormy the last few days- windy and rainy with Tornado warnings.
When I went to bed last night the wind was whipping, the rain was pouring down and I slept like a rock.
Go figure.
I have so much going on I should be awake pacing the floor but I slept.
felt pretty good.
There seem to be a lot of storms in my life right now but the thing about storms is that there is a point they blow over.
Then you get this:

Test for the backsplash:

and just glazing away....
waiting for the next storm...
and fall...