Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

The garden is slowly, slowly getting planted. It's still early, yet, but so far Dave has added broccoli (which is completely wishful thinking in our area perhaps), and just yesterday bought (but hasn't yet planted) leeks and cilantro. We also picked up a few perennials to plant in containers around the patio. It's spring!

Happy Studio!

Last night I sat down and threw for a long time. I am making some carafes, modeled after one I saw by Gorg Jensen on the MOMA store website, but mine turned out kind of small, more cruet sized.

I really didn't do anything else yesterday, just threw.

Happy Being!

My allergies are still going crazy. All winter I look forward to spring, mostly because I forget about the allergies (and the wind and the cockroaches, all signs of spring in New Mexico). We had snow and rain this past week which I thought might help beat back the tide of pollen, but it didn't even seem to make a dent in it. I haven't been taking Benadryl at all recently though, just because I got tired of being a zombie.

Whst else happened this week? I went to the gym twice, was in the pool twice, so that's good. (Dave and I sometimes go to the gym on Sundays, but it's closed today for Easter, so we'll go to the studio instead. The studio is closed, too, but we have keys.)

I'm slowly making my way through Eric Weiner's book Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine, but it's kind of slow going because it's basically autobiographical and the author is a not very likeable guy. I mean he's not Mitt Romney level unlikeable, he's just...annoying in some small but fundamental way. So there's that.

I've also been distracted recently by a story on Slate about a grizzly bear who was euthanized after attacking two people in Yellowstone park. From there I started reading online accounts of people who have been attacked by all kinds of large animals, not just bears but also chimpanzees, tigers, and killer whales, most of which were being kept as pets or otherwise in captivity. And speaking of pets: one author pointed out, in defense of not euthanizing bears who attack humans, that domestic dogs attack and kill people way more often than bears ever have. Anyway, bear attack horror literature is what The Brain has decided to fixate on this spring, so I have several books on order about it.