Slow day today for us. Kids both spent all day at Klondike Days as it was the last night. Tomorrow they work all day doing a final cleanup and garbage roundup. Gonna be two exhausted teenagers when the day is over. Cindy and I went to Plainsman Pottery Supply , visited with Larry a couple of minutes, and picked up 500 pounds of clay since he is closed Tuesday as well as Monday for the long weekend. He still has no idea on when we will see our new 16 cu ft kiln. He is thinking it could be soon though. We then ran on out to Ikea and picked up an as-is table for use in our retail booth at the show in December.
We headed in to the studio then and loaded the 16 with a bisque load. Making some mugs for the Empty Bowls breakfast session. Had to push the drying quite a bit. Started with a 6 hour hold at 120 degrees just to push the rest of the moisture out of the mugs, then another 2 at 180 and 2 at 200. Don’t want anything blowing up! Bisquing all the internet ricebowls, tea mugs, and sushi sets. Have two nice orders headed to Washington DC.
The rest of the kiln load is the first of the bowls for the August Gift Show.
This evening I did a few minor changes to the web page and we got our applications ready to send in for the Brad Pitt Movie, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". Maybe they need some village potters….yeah, that’s it!
Tomorrow we’ll get the kids off to work (love saying that!) and then we’ll head in for a day of throwing (Cindy) and cleaning (Jim). We are finally supposed to get some hot weather for a few days with no rain so that should help our production schedule a whole lot.
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July 31st, 2005 at 8:25 am Glad Bettie sent us an email so we could get the address to read your journal. Sounds like things are going great, so glad to see. K Days work for the kids is great education, even if they didn’t get paid. Have a great summer & muchn success!!