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December 10, Little Red Wagon at the Space at Greenstar.
All material on this blog unless stated otherwise is copyright Gary Edward Rith 2016Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2986125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-32967098931207594882016-11-23T05:46:00.002-05:002016-11-23T05:46:35.700-05:00LAST POST! Blogger changed things and it is a nuisance, find me here and THANKS! https://www.facebook.com/garyrithpottery/Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-34137211758415551432016-11-22T04:51:00.001-05:002016-11-22T04:52:19.009-05:00dragons and snow...<br />
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This pic shows our snowstorm as of yesterday morning…and it kept snowing all day! Overnight! And is s'posed to continue into today….all of this is normal for us between now and April, what hasn't been normal is the warm 70s that preceded it. I was kinda enjoying the warm 70s….<br />
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I just read and enjoyed the kids' book "How to train a dragon"…I have sold a million piggy banks, a million elephant cups, but GAWDAMN the red dragons are becoming bigger than that….I was fiddling with some paper yesterday and made a bookmark…..it seems timely when things are so topsy turvey around the world that we would turn to dragons...<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="482" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15122883_10154081083618807_4410704342011892005_o.jpg" width="640" />Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-58919690410425785522016-11-21T04:59:00.001-05:002016-11-21T04:59:35.430-05:00a foot of snow….<br />
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Like I said, we had about 73 on Saturday until a sudden change dropped the temps. and Sunday it snowed off and on all day…now, looking out the window, we have 8-12 inches lying on the ground, with more expected to fall through Tuesday! Feeling Christmassy……<br />
Pictures showing our back yard and the bridge by our house over the river.<br />
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(funny, the things you find on the camera--the cat crawled into the wife's skirt…)<br />
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Yesterday we knew the weather report: "70 degrees until rain and snow blow in this afternoon". We took Penny to the dog park and walking on Cayuga Lake..it was HOT…we got in the car around 3 and in the short time it took to drive home the temps fell to the 40s…in minutes, and kept on going until 6 pm when snow started…ANYWAY, weren't we smart for hiking in the hot weather? We probably won't see that warm again for 6 months or more, and YES, there is snow on the ground out there, more predicted each day until Wednesday….<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="622" src="https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15094846_10154074890578807_2401348681972038157_n.jpg?oh=3b9e148c8190b9b9235385a71025c871&oe=58BBEADB" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="579" src="https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15068556_10154074890793807_7369808510906995849_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="366" src="https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15171254_10154074890683807_1476871302326386425_n.jpg?oh=7df0be01ed85db3adfd56a6deb729e08&oe=5886ED62" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="307" src="https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14939969_10154074890863807_4792414619300560687_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="343" src="https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15123362_10154074890963807_814660266449848768_o.jpg" width="640" />Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-2112241226136505672016-11-19T04:57:00.002-05:002016-11-19T04:57:42.641-05:00dragons and skulls...I was idly thinking, as I have before, "wouldn't it be funny if you had a dragon eating a skull?" and if you google image it you come across an alarming number of scary tats showing just that.<br />
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Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-75833429087100937202016-11-18T05:02:00.003-05:002016-11-18T05:02:41.424-05:00flying dragon redux….The flying dragons I showed the other day with black wire…well, it was suggested that I should get some clear line…so I did. And in going out to gt a phot, like the Beatles said, here comes the sun, and….NICE :)<br />
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I have made types of green dragons for a while, but good GOLLY, the flying serpentine dragons in red I have made lately??? Whoa. Selling FAST. <br />
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My knowledge of dragons, what they are and why anybody would like them dates back to when I was 3 and liked Puff the Magic Dragon. Is it OK to admit I did not grow up playing Dungeons and Dragons? That I got bored reading Game of Thrones??? My knowledge of dragons is still back where it was when I was 3, but I that is changing fast….<br />
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Yes, I am putting red dragons of different sorts on pots, but thought I could make a few small ones (fits in the palm of your hand) that could hang from the ceiling of Christmas tree, cute, hmm?Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-26850668963255540082016-11-14T18:35:00.003-05:002016-11-14T18:47:32.240-05:00musings upon bullying and fear….<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We moved a lot when I was a kid, and I was the subject of some merciless bullying when we got to new places. One example is Mike Waller who sat behind me in 6th grade music class and hit me over the head with his book when the teacher’s back was turned...repeatedly. For weeks. The 25-30 kids in class tittered. I didn’t cry. I never told anybody. I was the new kid, I was shy, and what authority would listen? And as teens will tell you, if you speak up your ass gets kicked ten times worse. The little...well, she is not so little anymore as a fifth grader...daughter of a friend of ours has all these Diaries of a Wimpy Kid books at home. It is about that sort of sh!t, and about trying to do the right thing in a world full of bullies and social stigma. I can see why kids would like that stuff, because the kid can be a hero and set things right in the end. I don’t know if Mike Waller died young of some horrible and painful, disfiguring disease, but if you believe in karma, he will get his. Except, so often, really, bullies don’t, they go on to lead happy and prosperous lives. Sometimes those guys even get elected president of the USA.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We didn’t put an HRC sign in our yard, because, secretly, I was afraid. Afraid of the pickups that drive by on our very busy road, including (although we live in the NORTH) some with Confederate flags. Those dudes might have guns. When HRC ran for senate here in NY some years ago, my next door neighbor’s yard sign was flattened by a pickup that drove across their lawn to do so. They didn’t want to put up signs anymore. They have kids in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have been into a synagogue only 3 times in my life, although I have known Jewish people all my life. They look and act and think exactly like me. Except I am a Quaker and know very little about Judaism. The 3 times I have been into that synagogue I have wondered at the likely difference of being any ordinary American who might go to Temple one day and a swastika would be painted on the door. Or a window smashed. Or a bomb thrown through the window. These things happen to Jews all the time around the world, and in America too. It has been decades or centuries since anybody has harassed Quakers in meeting, as far as I know, or gone out of their way to be simply violent to us as a group. So when I was in that synagogue having fun at a holiday fair, looking at little kids who are like any other little kid, I wondered what kind of person could hate somebody as a group. Not even knowing them, you could just throw a rock through the window, or a bomb? I asked friends from that synagogue about security--they have cameras, and procedures for safety. Quakers don’t. Do white Baptist churches worry about these things? Presbyterians? Do they have wire mesh on the windows and security cameras everywhere? How about black churches? Why do we hear of so many burned to the ground here in the US? What sort of devil would do these things?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We have an African-American neighbor married to a white woman...how on Earth do they feel? Scared as hell. And this, on the edge of what has been called the most liberal city in the USA.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I don’t have to face those sorts of things as a straight WASP male who didn’t even have an HRC sign in his yard. I just want to be left alone to make my pots. Shouldn't everyone be left alone? But sh!t, a whole lot of people don’t have that luxury right now, because the fucking bully WON. He is on his way to the White House. </span></div>
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Fiddling around, as usual, and thinking I really REALLY like this particular combo: a spring green inside and emerald green outside with the grooves…suits a frog, too!<br />
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I remember years ago visiting a potter who had these 2 items fused together (by accident) sitting there….it was like a farm stand sort of place: a sign instructed you that if nobody was around, take your pottery purchase, leave the money…stuffed into one of the fused pots.<br />
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I should have double checked (ALWAYS double check everything in life, right?) when I was putting the shelf atop the lowest level in the kiln and I thought I heard a small thump. Now I know what that small thump was, a mug shifted somehow, and because it ended up touching a pot on each side, well, now they are conjoined triplets.<br />
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I do not consider these a wonderful joke or souvenir and will not be saving them.<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="393" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15000218_10154051457928807_5045465333185834499_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="421" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14976781_10154051458128807_6497177781937179949_o.jpg" width="640" />Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-56737747323887739802016-11-11T03:11:00.004-05:002016-11-11T03:11:29.235-05:00Cute dogs and pots may not save the world, but they are fun!<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="640" src="https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15025379_10154048492023807_7113118189872017657_o.jpg" width="422" /><br />
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Working like a madman, how about you?<br />
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The people who push bloody revolutions tend to forget that many will suffer along the way. I am a WASP male, the people who have been wielding the power in the US since the beginning, but yes, I am terrified too: I am not a minority or other easily targeted group, but I am slowly going blind with glaucoma and I have Obamacare. The clueless would say "go ahead then, get a job with health insurance!". But is that so easy? Even Smallmart does everything it can to avoid giving employees health insurance, and how many employers want an older guy slowly going blind? Nobody is gonna grab my pussy, and compared to most people I don't have anything to complain about, but things look like sh!t around this nation…<br />
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Americans just put a bad joke in office. Speaking of WASP males, the guy at the gas station, the guy at the PO giddily try to start happy conversations about the election, NUH uh, I'm not talking with YOU about this, bro. You and your ignorance and hate are not my tribe. All day long my belly felt like I had eaten a five week old burrito left out in the rain, a new feeling, do I have to get used to it?<br />
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For the moment, though, I am the luckiest guy in the world, as I have pots to make, and what I am making is dragons. Lots of dragons. This dude was sold before it was even fired….and making more is great therapy in very troubling times.<br />
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Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-68965597679860552182016-11-09T06:01:00.001-05:002016-11-09T07:31:31.717-05:00Talk about a "Day of Infamy"….There is so much to say, and I keep saying it and deleting it, but I am very disappointed in the American people.Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-12252435509592324672016-11-07T04:52:00.002-05:002016-11-07T04:52:54.542-05:00c'mon, AmericaAmerica is NOT a place of ignorance, hatred, bullying and violence.<br />
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See ya Wednesday…….<br />
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I had to deliver pots to <a href="http://www.cooperstownart.com/">Cooperstown Art Association's yearly holiday sale</a> (nearly 2 months of gorgeous arts to browse through!) and that was a quick stop followed by FUN. I went across the street to the Baseball Hall of Fame museum and was thrilled THRILLED that the scoreboard had the Cubs world series on there….I bet the last time the Cubs won in 1908 the museum wasn't there! Then we went up the lake to Glimmerglass State park, which I had never been to, and HO BOY is it amazing. Well, Otsego Lake and the surroundings are pretty enough, but the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Hall">park includes Hyde Hall</a>….when built 200 years ago it was the largest house in America…and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Hall_Bridge">covered bridge that leads up to the house is the oldest in America</a>, how about that….<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="480" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14976597_10154035361553807_4705706935245453201_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="380" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14976415_10154035361758807_140030007972106076_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="533" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15000277_10154035362653807_4807998901765672265_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="405" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14976902_10154035362338807_5137495249089980581_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="344" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14917089_10154035362463807_4421647372822408060_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="420" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14976391_10154035362658807_2048375261891397772_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="405" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14991060_10154035362563807_7447447119544288414_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="452" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15000590_10154035362748807_6207931235465426856_o.jpg" width="640" />Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-22660169282313775602016-11-05T06:47:00.001-04:002016-11-05T06:47:47.359-04:00dragon goblets!<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="640" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15000235_10154032696263807_7553125524211353376_o.jpg" width="626" /><br />
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I rarely make goblets, right? But with dragons in the air and everybody digging my RED dragons, I wanted to give it a whirl…...<br />
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In recent months, there had been some good interest in my green dragon pieces, but golly, this red is flying off the shelves, I mean, RIGHT AWAY. And the dragons themselves are evolving (although last night I dreamt I should make fish on pots….). <br />
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ANYWAY, I am having fun, hope you are too and have a great weekend!<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="402" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14883701_10154030030353807_5694139246811963967_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="406" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14940079_10154030030498807_6001941278962898883_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="363" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14884639_10154030030478807_3182471259150289162_o.jpg" width="640" /><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="373" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14902896_10154030030583807_5640173548019462695_o.jpg" width="640" />Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-90497560761929159482016-11-03T04:47:00.000-04:002016-11-03T04:47:06.065-04:00dragon cookie jars...<br />
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(traditionally, the Chinese and other east Asian potters loved throwing dragons on pots!)<br />
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First, speaking of RED, look at our little Japanese maples and the totally last maples in our back yard…we have NEVER gotten into November with all this color…I mean, it was like 70+ degrees, lovely, a terrific and lovely fall, and the Cubs won!<br />
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OK now, you know I have made many green dragons on things, and last week I tried it in red (like the Welsh flag!) and the result is very striking and attracting a lot of interest…so I am trying MANY dragon items in red! Here are 2 cookie jars, the red finished one is a lot smaller than the unfired one, actually.<br />
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I was dreaming last night that I fired the kiln with the lid open…boy, did THAT mess things up. I went down to the studio upon waking to find I had left all the lights on, I mean EVERY light, all night. I have NEVER done that.<br />
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In other news, Penny found herself a winter hat and here are a couple of misc. pots from the last firing, cute eh?<br />
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I mentioned yesterday trying a new glaze scheme, baby blue glaze with purple roses (THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO! Gosh, I liked that movie…) and here are some more …..<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="560" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14907158_10154021484823807_150096486462476066_n.jpg?oh=f0773b96b59147cc22d452fdf670c5f9&oe=58D551F3" width="640" />Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-69413726771926306252016-10-31T06:38:00.003-04:002016-10-31T06:38:21.885-04:00a NEW scheme...My baby blue (sky blue, periwinkle blue???) glaze is known to be pretty, and it looks good with a pink rose, as we have seen. BUT, I wondered what it would like with a purple rose….and now we know!<br />
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I have a special 2 month sale going on at a wonderful gallery up the lake, <a href="http://auroraartsanddesigncenter.com/">Aurora Art and Design Center</a>….so we delivered the display yesterday. I tried to submit a little of everything I have been working on lately….the thing is, you fill up the studio to a maddening degree then SUDDENLY it is fall and you are shoving stuff out the door faster than you can replace it :)<img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotosSnowliftCaption" class="spotlight" height="640" src="https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14876607_10154015511653807_8211821934274607810_o.jpg" width="408" />Gary's third pottery bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576713095937364949.post-79446043408594174362016-10-29T06:42:00.005-04:002016-10-29T06:42:43.639-04:00not a hipster, a DOGster….<br />
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Ignore the news. Then play dress up with your pets! Penny in her striped hoodie with matching sunglasses….<br />
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