Yesterday’s high temperatures quickly became a memory as it cooled off over the day and tonight has been raining steadily, although not as much here as farther south. As usual will affect drying times. It’s really been "one of those Summers". My Mom and Dad always used to joke about the phrase "It’s been an unusual ..(fill in the season). " We moved several times as I was growing up from Texas to Missouri to New Mexico, back to Texas and finally Saskatchewan. Everywhere we moved the weather that year according to the locals was always unusual. Unusually cold, or hot, or wet, or dry, or windy,…etc. This year in Edmonton has been unusually cold and wet. Cindy talked to Les Haworth at Laguna Clay in California today and he sounded as if he would be more than happy to exchange places with us. Very hot and very dry down his way.
We unloaded the bisque kiln and glazed the remainder of the order for Images of Canada and loaded the 16 cubic foot kiln. Started that kiln on its way with three bows to the kiln gods. I packed the 8 fish platters in their respective crates. Just have to add the labelling and then get them boxed to ship. We’ll be standing by the 16 cubic foot kiln waiting for the temperature to drop enough to pull the pots out of it. We are going to have to get some fire proof shelves to set hot pots on! Images wants their order by Friday. We hope to get it shipped late tomorrow afternoon or at the very latest the first thing Thursday.
We got the kids registered today and all their fees paid! Ouch! KD for the rest of the month! Oh well, you get what you pay for and all four of us agree it is worth it.
I’ve spent the evening recovering Kaileigh’s computer from a meltdown. She somehow got a bug in it late last night that eventually shut it down. We were sleeping soundly when at 1 am we heard a small voice from the darkness…."Jim….my computer died!" No…we did not immediately jump up and try to resucitate the beast. instead we suggested maybe it would look better after a good night’s sleep. I didn’t get to it until 5 or so. She lost a lot of files which she is now trying to recover but the computer and operating system, etc seem to be working fine. I have a feeling she’ll be a little more careful out there from now on.
So…it’s cool and rainy again…it’s late……
nite