This Weekend

[morgaina]

was great. Such fun. Thanks to gwen_the_potter and her whole family for their hospitality. She is such a gracious & well-organized person. Dragon's Laire, as usual, rocked my socks, you-all are so fine. Also a shout out to ayeshadream for cooking up (heh) the idea and it's manifestation in the first place. Also good was meeting some new people. There is rumor that the Culinary Symposium will happen again next year and I certainly hope so.

We had such a good time in the Clay Pots classes, I could have been more organized I suppose, but still it seemed easy-going, educational, and fun.

I learned several things from the class I did not previously know:
1) It takes a village. By self doesn't work as well as several doing prep work, fire tending, food tending, and yaking. Plus it was more fun that way Thanks everyone!
2) Thick walled, open, low-fire pots take a considerably longer time to bring water to a boil than our mid-range fired pots and they loose a lot of water in the process through evaporation.
3) Bullion cubes, even those from health-food type, stores are in reality rectangles chipped from salt licks & dipped in brown. Someone should look into making it a federal regulation to print this warning label in large, friendly letters on the box.

ayeshadream also let Gwen & me bring pottery to sell there. So the fun will continue. It's so rewarding to think the work we made will go on to enrich people's cooking experiences. And now I have some empty shelves and can make more!!!!!

Then Sunday I spent the day with daedin and had such good talks with her. ornerie joined us for supper, so I got to hang with her twice!

Stopped by Clayart Center in Tacoma and was much pleased with their business and service, plus they carry the brand of clay I like for my red pots. Three good ceramic supply places to choose from now.

The drive home was boring as usual with the exceptions of a sighting of the Weenie Mobile speeding down the I-90 and some wierdness in Ellensbury area. Which I attributed to my political bumper sticker, but that wasn't unpleasant enough to cancel the Weenie Mobile sighting fun.

Comments

[daedin.livejournal.com]

The Weenie Mobile!! I've been chuckling over that for...oh...about a half an hour now. That? Is Awesome!

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

The sighting was the highlight of the otherwise tedious drive.

[elfreda.livejournal.com]

Mistress Rafaella posted photos of the goodies she bought from you. I didn't have to read the captions, I recognized your beautiful work!

Miss you, too! (12th Night?)




Dum de dum de dum de dum de dum dum, then everyone would be in love with meeeee....

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

That was nice of her :-)
That was the first time I've seen rafaella13 for ages. I tried to convince her to post occasionally on lj, but don't think my entreaties worked.

Everyone will have to have an extra good time on my behalf. 12th Night is too far away for me. Both travel time and winter socked-inadness. *sigh*

which reminds me...

[rafaella13.livejournal.com]

will your afternoon class notes be in the proceedings? I was having too much fun with Eulalia and our students to break away.
--Rafaella

Re: which reminds me...

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

Hay it's rafaella13!! Good to hear from you.
I sent the class notes to ayeshadream in an attachment, so they should. However, they are essentially the same notes I sent you a couple of months ago. I may have added a few paragraphs about bread baking, but ...essentially the same. I will be adding some of the findings we had in this class to the file too.