Achievement sucketh

If you happened to look at my other blog (Living in Black Mountain) last week I published some photos of Lake Tomahawk frozen...except this little area where the ducks happily splashed around.

I'm trying to get back into pottery...without too much success so far.  All the goals I set for the day seem to remain half done, or completely undone by the end of the day.

So today I am just letting youall know I'm still here, even if I spend most of my time looking up ancestors on line, (and blogging about them HERE) and watching cats chase each other, rather than handling clay in one form or another.

Maybe the closest I get these days is with reading pottery blogs and posts on Facebook.  And then I can just look around my house also.  The good news is that several of the pots in the photo below have actually been sold in the last month.  Ahhh.  Now I need to reduce the amount of dust-mites in my life, so my goal is to box a lot of these up and store them away, thus reducing dust.  Goal ...

Hi blog buddies

Just checking in with you.  I'm still not feeling 100%.  Let's see, I guess if the best day I've had in the last year were 100%, then I'd currently be at about 85%.  I'm very grateful for that.

I went to the studio downtown yesterday and glazed 4 mugs and 3 tops.  The glazed stuff will all sit around a while, it looks like.  Charles started firing a glaze kiln that had already been loaded before I got there.  And the bisque shelves look like there will be enough for a bisque firing soon.

It was 62 in the studio, inside.  In the 40's outside, but windy, so I got pretty cold, and started coughing, so I went next door to warm up, and get a cuppa, and use the facilities.  And stayed an hour.  I didn't plan to, but I had to run back to lock up the studio.  I felt bad about deserting my friends and my duties, but I had finally gotten so there wasn't that shivering somewhere inside.  Not quite to where my teeth chatter.  Just felt too cold to be comfortable. 

My coughing treatment is changed after seeing a specialist on Monday.  I'll let you know if it's successful.  If not, who knows what's next.  So for now I keep on keeping on.  Slogging through February.  Seems pretty much the approach I expected to have.