I attended my first graduation in US, not mine, my daughter’s. I was amazed many people other than parents were there. I realized how important thing and key milestone on her life, like the initiation rite. Japanese cerebrates him/her on 20th birth year. I think most high school kids here are definitely more matured than we were in the high school. Now, our daughter has two months before departing to Abu Dhabi for the collage.
My mug is featured in the blog, http://dancingdolphinpottery.blogspot.com/
I was loading the kiln yesterday. Around 1:30pm, I felt the building moving. We are facing the CSX yard, and they produce lots of ground movement, but nothing was in action. Then I realized this was earthquake. It was long one, about 30 seconds. In my experience in Japan, if it continued more than 15 seconds, it tends to become a large one. But this earthquake was just long steady horizontal shake. Ware on the shelves are all ok. Epic center of the earthquake was in Ottawa, Canada, 180 miles away, magnitude 5. We probably had Japanese scale of 2 to 3, once month or more if you are in Tokyo.
I really hate the earthquake. You have no control over the earthquake, but stay put or hide under the table. I don’t remember when, but I hid under the table in the student full of the class room, but nobody else. I was very embarrassed, of course.
Ready to fire tomorrow.
Between shows is the time to restock what sold and received orders. I have been throwing the pots and putting lots of hole recently. Garlic jars, planters and berry bowls. Garlic jar is like a sugar pot with lots of the holes on the side, so the garlic can breathe, and its top protects from the light, not grow. I use it at home. I don’t make them often, but probably one of the most asked item next to the French butter dish. It does not mean it sells well, though.
The French butter dish, on the other hands, it sells. I made one year. I tried it at home, and I got butter dropping into the water, and several days later the butter became moldy. After researching the web, I found you can’t leave it if the temperature is above85°F or so, and you add salt in the water to avoid from mold. I thought if I am not satisfied I should not sell. I discontinued after selling a dozen or so in one summer.
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