THEN, as if I wasn't tired enough, I went and loaded a bisque load in the kiln. So I'll have 9 or 10 new kusamonos to finish Saturday, a couple of the starfish plaques with the new starfish on them, and a couple other odds n ends.
Spent 5 hours mucking out the koi pond, it really wasn't THAT bad, but typical spring algae bloom means it was GREEN. Everything is scrubbed, 3/4 water changed to get rid of the scrubbed off gunk and a winter's worth of decomposing fishpoop, and all the plants are fertilized. The pond is close to 4 ft deep, so we were shuffling around carefully to keep from squashing a fish (there are 2 BIG koi over a foot long, 5 or 6 koi in the 6 to 8 inch range, and probably 100 or so feeder goldfish all grown to about 5 or 6 inches, so LOTS of fish!) and I had to rescue one of the big koi who kept trying to swim up into a shallow spot. Silly fish! Water got replaced, filters all flushed (in the draining process) and the right stuff added to dechlorinate the water. I also tossed in some stuff to make the gunk glom together so I'll have to probably clean the pre-filters a couple times a day for the next few days.
THEN, as if I wasn't tired enough, I went and loaded a bisque load in the kiln. So I'll have 9 or 10 new kusamonos to finish Saturday, a couple of the starfish plaques with the new starfish on them, and a couple other odds n ends.
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Maryjane Carlson
Clay has always fascinated me, its many colors and textures, the shapes you can create using it, even the feel of it squishing in my hand. Even after years of playing in the mud I find myself exploring new ideas and I hope my work shows this. Archives
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