The countdown.........

Morning......

Still cold, this morning -7, still snowing, still feeding chickens, still weaving, still throwing, still firing, and still getting ready to shove off for Massachusetts next Thursday morning.

Have stopped baking bread and dumped my sour dough starter.  I went through 100 pounds of flour this winter, proudly converting it to fat quite nicely!  My butt thanks you.....

The sourdough starter languishes in it's crock due to a cold house, as I was not prepared to wear it around my neck in a leather pouch, I dumped it.  Butter sitting on the counter is too hard to spread anyway. This also means no pancakes, back to whole grain granola.   

I will now be perfecting my fruit and salad skills.

Listening to foodie books in the studio; Diane Mott's food mysteries have been quite entertaining.  Above all Michael Pollan's; "Cooked" has been the best.  Tried to listen to; The Man Who Changed The Way We Eat, but alas another borrower smeared the discs with butter or potato chip residue.  Taking it back to the library to see if they can run it through their disc cleaner.  Back to murder mysteries ......

I need to change the security settings on the blog as the spam is just rolling in!  No, I am not interested in Viagra, Ambient or hosting a toy party and we are not talking Lego's!  Enough!  Sorry blog readers, I will take it off in a week or so....... 

My work table is piling high but the view is great. 

 

The hairy woodpecker stopped by the bird feeder this morning.  

So big and so bravado....... we love that!  

Not so much Johnny Weir fishing in a mink at the Sochi Olympics..... 

Somebody sent a box of Florida sunshine!  But alas, no card!  Don't know who sent it but we are forever grateful for this burst of sun in a very dark winter :) 

Spending quite a bit of time carving these days.  

Also changing the finials on my carved pots as I needed something more simple so as not to compete with weaving.  

 Veronica, these shots are for you :) 

These are the teapots left from the filling the Cleveland Museum of Art order.

And I'm carving more teapots and working on others......