A week or so ago, a Cooper's Hawk, camping our fence, made off with one of the baby doves. But, the second one, now a juvenile, is still with it's parents, and it's taken to roosting on my rocking chair outside under the shade patio. I wasn't early enough this AM to get a picture of the newly minted juvenile dove -parents still feed it and stay near it at night - but I'll try again to get some snaps before posting this tonight.
Tort Report: The remaining two baby torts are going to be going outside soon, into the baby cage we kept Lucky in, the 20 something, when he was a tot. I hope they enjoy being out for a few hours a day to graze. I was hoping to have some pictures, close ups, of Milagro and Dusty eating dirt, which they love to do, but we worked longer and harder at Ceramics than we meant to today. The old molds came.
Ceramics report: We had a marathon day at ceramics today, hauling in from the parking lot, cleaning, labeling and finding shelving for approx 20 molds brought to us by the husband of a member who has passed away. We gave some molds to a shop but kept some for ourselves to pour. We old folk really worked our fandangos off! The staff at the rec center helped us to transport the molds from the parking lot to the room, so we are very thankful for having the young folks around!
Here are just a few of the molds we moved, cleaned, rebanded and put on the shelves. When it was over we all said to each other that we were going home and taking naps!
May You Walk with Beauty all around you:
Friends in Oregon are volunteers at a beautiful place. They took all the following Photos, plus the one of the gorgeous pink Rhodie in the last post. This Canada Goose, as well as a group of North American Wood Ducks (and one straggler), were snapped by them this Spring.
That's all the tails I have on this Tuesday Tails day. Hope you enjoyed the photos. Now I'm going to rest so I can go hunting with my Dragons!
Tort Report: The remaining two baby torts are going to be going outside soon, into the baby cage we kept Lucky in, the 20 something, when he was a tot. I hope they enjoy being out for a few hours a day to graze. I was hoping to have some pictures, close ups, of Milagro and Dusty eating dirt, which they love to do, but we worked longer and harder at Ceramics than we meant to today. The old molds came.
Ceramics report: We had a marathon day at ceramics today, hauling in from the parking lot, cleaning, labeling and finding shelving for approx 20 molds brought to us by the husband of a member who has passed away. We gave some molds to a shop but kept some for ourselves to pour. We old folk really worked our fandangos off! The staff at the rec center helped us to transport the molds from the parking lot to the room, so we are very thankful for having the young folks around!
Here are just a few of the molds we moved, cleaned, rebanded and put on the shelves. When it was over we all said to each other that we were going home and taking naps!
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| What a job! |
Friends in Oregon are volunteers at a beautiful place. They took all the following Photos, plus the one of the gorgeous pink Rhodie in the last post. This Canada Goose, as well as a group of North American Wood Ducks (and one straggler), were snapped by them this Spring.
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| One straggler from another flock helping to eat the scattered grain. |
That's all the tails I have on this Tuesday Tails day. Hope you enjoyed the photos. Now I'm going to rest so I can go hunting with my Dragons!
my first job was working summers with my grandmother doing ceramics in her shop. She had SO MANY MOLDS and it was CRAZY hot in there in the summers. I loved doing ceramics. So sad when she passed away and we had no where to put all those molds so they donated them. :( So much money and her whole career just given away....
ReplyDeleteApril, you have some wonderful memories of that time, and I'm sure it made your grandmother very happy to have you working with her during the summers.
ReplyDeleteIsn't ceramics a wonderful thing? Ceramics is making a little bit of a comeback but we are not getting young people into our club. Times are very hard for young families and ceramics doesn't pay much anymore. It's sad that so many career ceramicists life work is lost when they can no longer work, or pass away as your grandmother did. When you see things marked, "Made in China", at Big Lots, you know what's happened.
I have molds that I'm hoping to pour at least once more. Some of the ones we got the other day from our friend's husband were brand new. Some of mine are, too.