Well, Saturday morning turned out to be a bust. Apparently the testing lab didn't get the orders from my doctor, so I fasted--and got up early on a Saturday--for no reason. No matter--I'll call the doctor on Monday to try to sort things out. And it did mean that Dave and I were up early enough to snag a couple of breakfast burritos from Lotaburger.
After that little bit of fail, we came home and I took a nap while Dave watered the poor parched plants on the patio. And later we spent some time over our Thai food lunch discussing the things that we want to plant in the garden this year. Dave thinks we should move our tomato plants to the shadier bed and ixnay the orncay, but I like growing corn if for no other reason than I like the way the plants look. (And there is no other reason, really, considering that we've never really had any harvested corn to speak of.) I also want beets this year again. (Beets are going for $3-4/lb at the co-op, which: Beets! should not cost $4 per pound.) We'll have eggplant, too, and a couple of cucumber plants that, like the last two years, will produce absolutely nothing. On the patio, I think we'll stick to flowers this year and lots of them.
It'll be time to plant soon!
After lunch we went to the studio and I glazed on the cells for awhile. While I started glazing, I was thinking of the giant clams I saw in the wild, while diving off the Great Barrier Reef. As I was trying to recreate their color patterns from memory, Lynn came into the studio and I heard her announce that she had just been at the aquarium and won a raffle to dive in the shark tanks. How awesome is that?
I finished! finished! one of the cells. Now I have to load and fire it. It's going to be a definite chore because the majority of the pieces will have to be balanced on stilts.
Sunday
We got to the studio around noon and started loading a kiln, seen vertiginously here:
On the left is a big bowl of Dave's (and some other student work) and on the lower right is the first cell I made (The Persistence of Memory) and on the upper right is another nameless cell. (The nameless cell's pieces are two levels below, most of them propped up on stilts.) After I took this photo Dave added a small bowl to the empty spot and started the kiln.
The kiln will fire overnight and if I get to it first, I'll take a picture of the pieces in situ. I'm curious to see how they turn out.
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