Monday, September 8
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Making it through the day. It was a pretty good day, but so BUSY!
Which is why I had a small meltdown when my husband mentioned yesterday that he had taken Monday off (since he biked all weekend) and wanted to mesh with my already quite full schedule.
We got things rolling just before lunch, which is early to have things rolling for me. We did chores and such, collected all the tools and accessories from the pottery studio that we only brought home a few weeks ago, and headed to town in separate vehicles.
There was a bunch of construction on the main road that takes us to the studio, so that meant a detour, and since EVERYONE ELSE was doing the same thing, the narrow little streets really only meant for one car width were a bit nuts.
Anyhow.
The pottery class was good, and it was nice to see everyone. There are a gigantic and imposing set of utility shelves now just PLONK in the middle of the studio. They feel overwhelming and make the space seem very crowded, they are tall and black and ugly and make you feel like you can't see anywhere. I don't like them, and there MUST have been a more elegant solution, but alas it is now too late.
Why must people do these things?
I was able to throw a nice round vase and two bowls that I like the shape, and I hope they turn out. It was nice to just THROW, even though I haven't done so at all this summer.
As mentioned, it was nice to see everyone. The social aspect of pottery is good for us (my Sweetie could come today), and it is the one thing that does make me want to be part of the public studio instead of working alone at home, though I still want to do that as well.
I wonder if the god-awful politics will ever settle down. Historically it has not, so there's that.
My husband left the studio before I did to go look at exterior doors and frames at the local ReStore for use in the pottery studio at home. He found a good door frame, so now a door.
Then we met up to get groceries, (I am always grateful for being able to get groceries), and we noted that his brand of coffee has gone up almost ten dollars since the last time he bought it. That's ten dollars on a product that cost about twenty dollars a month or two ago.
You wonder what the reason is for that, or if there no longer needs to be a reason for outrageous price hikes. It feels like food prices are just a form of robbery these days.
We grabbed a bite to eat afterwards, to kill a bit of time before I needed to go to D's house for our communications committee meeting.
My Sweetie went home to bake a bunch of zucchini and banana bread for his lunches, as well as picked garden beans and watered the garden, as well as let everyone out into their pastures. Yay for helpful Sweetie!
I went to D's a bit early, which is nice because then we got to visit. Then others showed up for our committee meeting.
I am impressed every time we meet, with how positive and effective this group is. There is a great blend of intelligence and experience and the meetings are very useful.
We had been doing zoom meetings last year, but I thought we should meet in person for the beginning, and it was a good idea. We had two whole hours allocated, and we did a great job of addressing our agenda, and we have useful goals to present to the executive when we have our next pottery business meeting.
This is the thing, the pottery studio is a very good "third place" for being social with people, and over the years we have a bond with several persons from there, though it is somewhat dependent on mutually being in the studio.
So that's the thing. If the conditions (the crazy woman named S) become impossible, I would move to working entirely from the studio at home when it's finished. If I can live with the crazy woman S, then I want to continue to go to the studio in town as well as work at home, mainly for the social benefits.
The social benefits matter a LOT when my husband works "away" for ten days at a time.
I came home after the meeting, my Sweetie was finishing up with his baking, he had picked lots of beans and says there are more to pick.
That's great. For a while it was looking like we weren't getting many beans.
We also now have a TON of zucchini.
My Sweetie said that when he was picking beans, a teeny little mouse who was likely JUST leaving the nest ran up to him in the garden, and seemed disoriented and just kept EEKING at him. It's possible that one of the snakes evacuated the nest, and the poor little mouse didn't know what to do.
My Sweetie says he gave the little critter a bean, and it seemed very pleased with it.
Making it through the day. It was a pretty good day, but so BUSY!
Which is why I had a small meltdown when my husband mentioned yesterday that he had taken Monday off (since he biked all weekend) and wanted to mesh with my already quite full schedule.
We got things rolling just before lunch, which is early to have things rolling for me. We did chores and such, collected all the tools and accessories from the pottery studio that we only brought home a few weeks ago, and headed to town in separate vehicles.
There was a bunch of construction on the main road that takes us to the studio, so that meant a detour, and since EVERYONE ELSE was doing the same thing, the narrow little streets really only meant for one car width were a bit nuts.
Anyhow.
The pottery class was good, and it was nice to see everyone. There are a gigantic and imposing set of utility shelves now just PLONK in the middle of the studio. They feel overwhelming and make the space seem very crowded, they are tall and black and ugly and make you feel like you can't see anywhere. I don't like them, and there MUST have been a more elegant solution, but alas it is now too late.
Why must people do these things?
I was able to throw a nice round vase and two bowls that I like the shape, and I hope they turn out. It was nice to just THROW, even though I haven't done so at all this summer.
As mentioned, it was nice to see everyone. The social aspect of pottery is good for us (my Sweetie could come today), and it is the one thing that does make me want to be part of the public studio instead of working alone at home, though I still want to do that as well.
I wonder if the god-awful politics will ever settle down. Historically it has not, so there's that.
My husband left the studio before I did to go look at exterior doors and frames at the local ReStore for use in the pottery studio at home. He found a good door frame, so now a door.
Then we met up to get groceries, (I am always grateful for being able to get groceries), and we noted that his brand of coffee has gone up almost ten dollars since the last time he bought it. That's ten dollars on a product that cost about twenty dollars a month or two ago.
You wonder what the reason is for that, or if there no longer needs to be a reason for outrageous price hikes. It feels like food prices are just a form of robbery these days.
We grabbed a bite to eat afterwards, to kill a bit of time before I needed to go to D's house for our communications committee meeting.
My Sweetie went home to bake a bunch of zucchini and banana bread for his lunches, as well as picked garden beans and watered the garden, as well as let everyone out into their pastures. Yay for helpful Sweetie!
I went to D's a bit early, which is nice because then we got to visit. Then others showed up for our committee meeting.
I am impressed every time we meet, with how positive and effective this group is. There is a great blend of intelligence and experience and the meetings are very useful.
We had been doing zoom meetings last year, but I thought we should meet in person for the beginning, and it was a good idea. We had two whole hours allocated, and we did a great job of addressing our agenda, and we have useful goals to present to the executive when we have our next pottery business meeting.
This is the thing, the pottery studio is a very good "third place" for being social with people, and over the years we have a bond with several persons from there, though it is somewhat dependent on mutually being in the studio.
So that's the thing. If the conditions (the crazy woman named S) become impossible, I would move to working entirely from the studio at home when it's finished. If I can live with the crazy woman S, then I want to continue to go to the studio in town as well as work at home, mainly for the social benefits.
The social benefits matter a LOT when my husband works "away" for ten days at a time.
I came home after the meeting, my Sweetie was finishing up with his baking, he had picked lots of beans and says there are more to pick.
That's great. For a while it was looking like we weren't getting many beans.
We also now have a TON of zucchini.
My Sweetie said that when he was picking beans, a teeny little mouse who was likely JUST leaving the nest ran up to him in the garden, and seemed disoriented and just kept EEKING at him. It's possible that one of the snakes evacuated the nest, and the poor little mouse didn't know what to do.
My Sweetie says he gave the little critter a bean, and it seemed very pleased with it.
