"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers."

-Kahlil Gibran

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The Big CRASH!!!!!!

Last night the lap top crashed when I was getting ready to download things to an external hard drive! I don't know what this means really other than I have a ton of pictures, documents, emails and the mailing list on there! Hopefully Apple Buddies can help me out with this. SO .........no pictures today kiddies! And I'll post when I can.

I want to send a SHOUT OUT to my friend Katie Wilson who is a little under the weather right now. Katie I wish you a speedy recovery and keep your chin up. Things are looking up. I was going to post a nice picture of a lady bug that I know you would appreciate BUT..............

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August 13, 2009

I've been in Wisconsin this week; tomorrow is the last full day that I'll be here. Today we went to a Brewers' game... they beat the Padres 12 - 9. Fielder hit a 465' homerun in the second inning! Tuesday we went to the State Fair, which was fun. Lots of people & lots of food! Tonorrow evening we'll go for a fish fry at Glenda's in Okauchee; then Saturday it's back to the airport for the trip to Raleigh. :(
I miss my BooBoo (LuLu), but I'd rather be in Wisconsin than back in the humidity of NC.
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PS: I did sew 3 journals while I've been here!

LuLu's Birthday

Today
is LuLu' s designated birthday. Since she is a rescue pup and was found with her siblings, her exact birthday is unknown. So today is the celebrated day. For breakfast she had her favorite: blueberries mixed with her food and salmon oil drizzled on top! As you can see by the picture below, she is pretty in different to the whole thing. My guess is that she is dreaming of the above left picture (beach), but will settle for the playing with the ball in the picture to the right. She'd like to play frisbee, but is not really interested in going outside since it is 100 degrees.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LULU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Firing the Craft Center kiln

We fired the Craft Center kiln this week for the first time since the renovations. The new chimney worked fine. With the new ventilation system and air tight room we will need to do some adjusting to get it right. The day we started it up we had our typical afternoon thunderstorm which meant we had to stand in just the right position to get the kiln to start. Supposedly, we weren't suppose to have this problem with the ventilation system and air tight room. After about 20-25 minutes and a little adjusting of the burners, she lit up. The rest of the firing went well. We played around with different settings on the 2 vents and the intake air supply ......... these vents and intake air supply are for the kiln room. It almost seems like these 2 vents and the air intake can act like another damper for the kiln. INTERESTING. I can see some possibilities here. In the mean time, there is still some fine tuning to get the basic firing down that will fit the whole glaze palate. In this firing some of the glazes were over reduced and some were beautiful. We will see what happens in the next firing.

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07/25/09 at Uwharrie Ridge

Today I worked in the studio for a while, cutting & folding paper for journals. This afternoon we took a ride to Carrboro for a stop at the Open Eye Cafe & then on to Kathy's at Uwharrie Ridge. The hens & rooster had grown quite a bit since the last time I saw them....they are eating well! ( Soon there will be eggs, I think.)
Kath made a fantastic salad with fresh greens from the Farmers Market & tomatoes from her garden.
The butterflies and hummingbirds were abundant in the garden!

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Getting journals ready

I spent time today cutting paper and folding folios to match them up with covers. Next they will be marked so that I can drill them. Each folio will get a colorful cover page. Extra goodies will be added to each, then they will be sewn together with the coptic stitch.

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