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March 11, 2006
PIck a little, dig a little
Its noon, and we've made our first return home, with a partial palette of mexican stone...its for the walkway that's been in transition since October or November...now that we have the pea gravel, the decomposed granite and stone, we can finish the dang thing..I dunno how many times I've twisted my ankle or nearly killed myself while tripping in this ditch...argh...But I also picked up some new succulents and sedums and am planting those..oh, and a new rose...like I NEED another rose...but this one is deep red with almost black on the edges of the flowers and its very dramatic..like I NEED another rose...I have my eyes on some others, but the backyard hasn't begun to be dug out yet, so my planting options are limited (they require 4-6 hours of sun a day - not shade)...Ok, Brian is off to pick up the rest of the mexican stone (the truck will only hold so much, its 1700lbs worth of rock), and I'm heading out to plant sedums...back later...beads are still in the kiln...but I'll get them out later...pink, purple and blue...eeeeee......
Us farmers are up early, before the sun is up...Brian has been up before me, he's definitely the early riser, I'm the night owl, but here I am at 6:30, up and moving...He's been in the studio, cleaning up and rearranging a lot of the stuff that's out here, and now we have so much more room...
I can actually get to the cabinets along the walls again...Our studio doubles as a garage, Star Wars storage facility, garden tool warehouse, dog stuff storage not to mention our bikes are here taking up space, and that doesn't include my lampwork area...I'm usually pushing and shoving stuff out the way just to get to a cabinet and barely get the door open, only to discover what I'm looking for isn't in that one, and I have to try a different one...So no, I simply walk to the cabinet, thru the free air, and open a door...its magical...
Last night's dinner was fun, we ate ribs and jerk chiken and meatloaf, and it was all free! gotta love that...we gave our feedback about the food, atmosphere and what we'd like to see on the menu...I do hope this branch of the restaurant survives, it looks like its a large space to rent and I hope that part of town embraces what we in the Central part of town have been digging for years...yum!
And I received the Bullseye collection yesterday, its full of some good colors, some colors I don't use much like yellow and cobalt blue, but I'll figure out something...also some very groovy dichro strips and lots of long pieces of what looks like cut Bullseye sheet glass...All in all I think it was worth the money, and I can't wait to get to it...I did make a few small sets yesterday using some Lauscha that I got in the mail, but those won't be ready any time soon..they're still sitting in the kiln as I'm typing this, and we have a lot of places to hit today, so I have no idea when they'll be ready...
and there ya have it...i'm ready for some pancakes...
Posted by Donner at March 11, 2006 12:03 PM