| Fire good, bring trees! |
[May. 19th, 2012|08:18 am] |
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I'm stoking up the wood-fire kiln! I lit yesterday, stoked for several hours, then let it die down overnight. After breakfast, I'll re-light and stoke all day! It looks like I'll be going into tomorrow. If you'd like to come see, let me know. Otherwise, I'll post some updates here as comments. |
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| Hail the Victorious Dead! |
[Feb. 3rd, 2012|05:46 pm] |
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Today I did glorious battle against the blackberries that have for so long lain siege against the western shores of Millersheim. The foe fought back valiantly. They piled up their dead in an effort of thwart my advance. They were unsuccessful. Their foul wall fell to the fury of my blade and the hammer of my feet. Resistance was futile and in the end, I was victorious! I cut them down until the sap of my enemy flowed like the milk from a thousand cows and, driving them from this realm, I smote their ruin upon my burn pile! Tales of this glorious battle shall be told in our mead halls! |
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| All Tangled up |
[Oct. 23rd, 2011|08:44 pm] |
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Okay, I've completely gone off the deep end. I've been pounding away at some derivative fiction centered around "Tangled." My wife insists I'm "writing Disney Princess fan-fic." I insist I'm merely fleshing out their continuing story, with a not-so-subtle convergence with Howl's Moving Castle. You be the judge. If you're at all interested in what's been bouncing around in my fron, I have some of it posted on Archive of Our Own: http://archiveofourown.org/works/260580 is the first of 4 chapters I have up at the moment. |
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| Zombies have eaten my brains. |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|01:48 pm] |
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It's official: I've been thinking about zombies too much. I've been reading "Zombies for Zombies," "World War Z," and have been thinking about a couple of zombie works I'm writing. Now, last night, I dreamed about zombies! The first set of dreams was set in what Brooks would call a Class 4 outbreak scenario (the zombie apocalypse) and the second a Class 3 (a large outbreak relatively quickly quelled by police or military response). |
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| Winter Bazaar |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|07:40 pm] |
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I'm currently running a cone-10 reduction firing. Most of what's in there is work we're bringing to the Winter Bazaar. It's to be held next weekend at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Y'all're going to come, right? You are? Great! We'll see you there! |
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| On being undead |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|09:37 pm] |
(To the tune of "I'm a Barbie Girl")
I'm an undead girl
In an undead world
Sun and snow and rain
I want some tasty brains |
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| Fire good, bring trees! |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|08:18 am] |
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I'm stoking up the wood-fire kiln again this weekend. I'll finish loading right after breakfast (essentially when I'm finished with this post and after I prepare my egg nog coffee). I'll light early afternoon and stoke until some time Sunday afternoon. Unloading will be on Tuesday. Let me know if you might be interested in coming out to watch. |
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| Retreats are good. |
[Oct. 26th, 2009|05:45 pm] |
The wife and I just returned from our little writers retreat we took in Fossil over the weekend. It went well and was overall a relaxing time.
Writing report: I have the structure and backbone in place. I'll probably have to reorganize the first act. There are some things that work on the Shakespearean stage that just don't on screen.
Activity report: I took a relatively long walk Friday, saw some neat plants (I'd like to return in late May or early June.) and the remains of what was either a lahar or a flash-flood from many moons ago. We rode horseback for 3.5 hours Saturday and helped move cattle from one pasture to the other--that's a lot more work than I expected and is more than just sitting on the horse and I essentially had 3+ hours of static resistance exercise in the upper legs--it's a good thing their breakfasts are high-protein. I took a short stroll Sunday, since I was pretty sore and wanted to get to work on my writing.
Entertainment report: Mythbusters had an episode devoted entirely to duct tape! :-)
Wildlife report: western cottontail; a buck, at least 5 does, 2 fawns; bobcat; eagle; several flickers, quail and assorted other birds; a few domestic cats.
Geology report: I already knew that Oregon east of the Cascades was not a continuous sheet of Columbia flood basalt and had already seen much evidence of that, but I still saw much that I hadn't known before. It really is stunning scenery out there. The more rocks I see, the more I learn to see the differences between them, which is still often subtle enough. I noted several other spots where I can obtain more of a couple of my ryolite glaze materials. |
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| Today, my wheel throws on me! |
[Sep. 25th, 2009|09:38 pm] |
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Usually, I throw on the wheel. Today, the wheel threw on me! It's needed a new set of bearings for about a year now and I'm finally replacing them. The trouble is that everything is either rusted or really stiff. After a lot of banging and prying and grumbling, I finally went to the hardware store for a puller. The last time I had to use one of those was when my father-in-law and I had to get a new fly wheel for one of our former cars. I was disinclined to go back over there after that, but I'd left the MagLight, so while I was there I went ahead and pulled. Why it's all on there that tightly, I don't know, but that stainless steel shaft really beat the snot out of the tip of the puller. Fortunately, the new shaft and new bearings should go on pretty well. I test-fitted them and they're NOT designed with a compression fit. The toughest part will be getting the wheel-head locator pin through the shaft. I may have to take it to work and press it in if it proves to be too recalcitrant. I really hate it when I can tell what's supposed to go where and can tell that stuff's supposed to come apart or go together in a particular way, but it somehow doesn't. This sort of thing is why I don't work on cars! |
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| In th' garden |
[Sep. 19th, 2009|07:54 pm] |
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Ahoy! Today I be harvestin' a squash, slicin' it, an' usin' it in me soup. I also be harvestin' some beans that I'll be eatin' in me dinner tomorrow. It looks like we'll be havin' at least one good ear of corn this year. Th' chard an' th' beets be doin' well, but th' broccoli be walkin' th' plank an' th' carrots be in Davy Jones' locker. |
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