Wednesday, April 27
Apr. 28th, 2022 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
That it didn't snow long, it became rain instead.
The vase that never came back from being sent for firing is found. One of the persons responsible for the kilns kept it to show another class, and it "got put away" with some of her pieces. Yeah, it's hard to explain, but there is almost no way that it should have ended up with her items, the way our studio works. Even if she was showing other people this vase, it comes from the kiln room on a cart, and it should have gone back on the cart after she showed people, it has no reason to ever go anywhere but the cart. Well, I have to go along with her story that it "got put away with her things" for the sake of keeping the peace.
Basically she was the only other person who has anything to do with firing that I hadn't already talked to. The others said they hadn't seen it. So I e-mailed this person, and she "remembered borrowing it", and she returned it to my shelf.
MAYBE it was just a mistake?
I feel like I am going to have to keep track now, of what I send for firing.
I went to see River, and we had a lesson today. It was too wet to use the outdoor arena, so we were back inside.
We seem to have a lot of homework for our ground work this week, going back and fine-tuning some things, and doing a bit of work with a feather line on his neck (will not tighten) instead of a halter.
Under saddle we worked on the shoulder yield some more.
I brought the bracelets for R (she is using them as part of gift bags at a show), and she was happy with them. It's nice for me to use a talent I have like this.
I came home and sat with the ponies/goats in their bigger pasture for a while.
I learned what a remittance man was. I have heard the term, but never really knew what it meant. It is a man who is paid by his family to go live permanently somewhere else, like Canada or some other largely new territory. Usually someone from a good family, and this person brought shame upon them somehow, like being a drunk or caught up in a scandal, or was a black sheep who were somehow a difficulty for the family. Some of them were simply the awkward youngest son who was not an heir. They would be regularly sent some kind of living allowance, as long as they stayed away.
There were remittance women too, though not as common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance_man
That it didn't snow long, it became rain instead.
The vase that never came back from being sent for firing is found. One of the persons responsible for the kilns kept it to show another class, and it "got put away" with some of her pieces. Yeah, it's hard to explain, but there is almost no way that it should have ended up with her items, the way our studio works. Even if she was showing other people this vase, it comes from the kiln room on a cart, and it should have gone back on the cart after she showed people, it has no reason to ever go anywhere but the cart. Well, I have to go along with her story that it "got put away with her things" for the sake of keeping the peace.
Basically she was the only other person who has anything to do with firing that I hadn't already talked to. The others said they hadn't seen it. So I e-mailed this person, and she "remembered borrowing it", and she returned it to my shelf.
MAYBE it was just a mistake?
I feel like I am going to have to keep track now, of what I send for firing.
I went to see River, and we had a lesson today. It was too wet to use the outdoor arena, so we were back inside.
We seem to have a lot of homework for our ground work this week, going back and fine-tuning some things, and doing a bit of work with a feather line on his neck (will not tighten) instead of a halter.
Under saddle we worked on the shoulder yield some more.
I brought the bracelets for R (she is using them as part of gift bags at a show), and she was happy with them. It's nice for me to use a talent I have like this.
I came home and sat with the ponies/goats in their bigger pasture for a while.
I learned what a remittance man was. I have heard the term, but never really knew what it meant. It is a man who is paid by his family to go live permanently somewhere else, like Canada or some other largely new territory. Usually someone from a good family, and this person brought shame upon them somehow, like being a drunk or caught up in a scandal, or was a black sheep who were somehow a difficulty for the family. Some of them were simply the awkward youngest son who was not an heir. They would be regularly sent some kind of living allowance, as long as they stayed away.
There were remittance women too, though not as common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance_man
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Date: 2022-04-28 05:57 pm (UTC)What's a feather line? I've never heard of that!
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Date: 2022-04-29 04:59 am (UTC)When the firing is done, the pieces are taken from the kiln and put onto the cart. The cart goes from the kiln room up to our work area. People go to the cart to check and see if their pieces are on it. Her class would be in the work area. To show them that vase, she could just show it to them while it was on the cart, and it would never have to go anywhere.
This is why I am skeptical that it ended up with her things by accident. Also, it has obviously been finished for maybe a week or two, so even if it was an accident, how did she not notice the "mistake" and return it by now? If I never pointedly asked HER directly, would I have ever gotten it back?
I am not sure what to do in the future. Take pictures of things as they go on the cart, so that I have visual confirmation and a date, I guess? Even if it was an accident, the only way I could prove that a piece was missing would be a picture with a date of when it was put on the cart for firing.
A feather line is a very light lead rope, and R uses it in a fixed (will not tighten) loop around the neck. It is a transition from a halter with a heavy lead line (the weight of the lead line can be a cue, and the lighter line takes that cue away so they start looking more at your body language) to being completely at liberty.