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Pastimes : ceramics-clay-pottery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AugustWest who wrote (18)	11/26/2001 2:53:27 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 338

Just totally absurd. In all my years of firing kilns I have never encountered such bass ackwards people. I suppose that's part of the territory when you tell someone you are burning 840,000 BTUs/hour. If they are not in the know they thing you're getting ready to blast a shuttle into space! lol... Actually reminds me of something I got all worried about one time. I was organizing an agriculture education display at a large fair up my way, and asked a bee-keeper friend if he would like to do anything for the exhibit. He told me he would bring in his "demonstation hive" for the week and do some things with it. I guess I must have gotten some worried kind of look on my face as I asked, "There's no chance that the bees can get OUT of this hive and sting anyone, is there??" He just laughed. I guess he used to get asked this a lot. The demonstrations went off fine. No bees escaped. None of the visitors got stung. Everyone was fascinated by the sight of the bees moving around through a section of hive on the other side of a piece of glass. Just goes to show how we worry about things we don't understand. And yup.. I should be doing a journal of my work this winter. In fact, I'll try to do so starting pretty soon. I've been doing some work for a museum lately, so I haven't had time for carving, and am doing some book illustration work right at the moment, but I can just about guarantee that when the snow starts to fly..which probably won't be too far in the future, I'll start working indoors and carving is what I will most likely be doing. THis winter, I wanted to do some mask carvings using driftwood that I've been collecting. Last Saturday, I found some nice pieces below a dam at a beautiful lake about 100 miles west of where I live. Also brought home a driftwood cedar root that was so long that we had to put down all the seats in the van and drive with a piece of the root stretched up onto the dashboard.. (o: catch up with you later..