So, I have learned from the EK list that there won't be a morning cannon this year. I'm not going to sum ip the argument. Instead, I have only one thing to point out. "Dude? Eight o'clock is just not that early...if you're that hung over, or you couldn't be bothered to go to bed before dawn, that's your problem, not mine."

Aside from a few new pieces of pottery, I will have at Storvik Novice tourney lots of eggs (3 dollars a dozen) and a Cubic Shitload (tm) of DMC embroidery floss from cleaning out my Grandmother's house. Literally a couple hundred skeins. Embroiderers come by and offer me the monies for them.

Anyone coming to Defending The Gate this weekend who might like some eggs...we have a surplus. $3.00 buys you a dozen fresh, free-range, naturally raised eggs from chickens who, if they could just get out of the pen, would happily knock over and devour your cat.

Mustard Jars = Done.
Tating serving ware = in the kiln.
Soup bowls = done.
Candlestick = done.
Inkwell = done.
Apthecary jars = in the kiln.
Gargoulette = in the kiln.
Oules = done.

Now, if Aftosa comes through on my cork order, I'll be all set.

For those planning on attending MTA, either as Indiginous Personnel or as tourons, do you need anything? I'll be there in my capacity as LaBelle Camp Cooker, but I can easily bring along random items of desire; pitchers, curfews, etc. Let me know now, 'cause Mud Through the Ages is thundering down upon us like a giant, thundering thing.

It's about 11:00 am...it just started snowing again. Big, fat flakes drifitng gently down....

The chickens are tarped over, wood is hauled in for the woodstove, and everything that can be done has been done.

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Take a look. I'll post more as I get more pictures taken and as time allows.

So, my new Photo Studio Inna Box arrived this morning. I've been playing around with taking pictures of pottery, with the intent of eventually creating an Etsy store. Here are a few examples. Tell me what you think.


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Here are requested pics of the new stuff for Birka. They're not all that great - I'm in a hurry and am using the phone on my camera.


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It was very damp and windy and consequently uncomfortable yesterday in the chicken coops. At one point when I went out to check for eggs, I thought that we were missing a hen. Upon further investigation, I found Lucy, one of our Barred Cornish Rocks, cuddling with Pineapple, one of the bantam Wheatens.


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