It was nice to see Jeri on Friday as she trekked to Ormstown for Bruce evening at the cafe - a special event for those of us who could be there. He will be at the Apple Hollow Music Fest on 21 July. This wonderful event was the catalyst that got me back in Quebec 3 years ago.

I started filling out the app for citizenship and of course ran into - What was my address that year? and other things. Need high energy level to do these bureaucratic things. This week it went to pot - literally!

A loaded kiln is warming to make sure pots are VERY DRY before firing tomorrow. It could be a tich more full but I did what I could and want some new pots for the market on Saturday. So Friday will be very busy glazing - which always take longer than expected. I will try to get prepared tomorrow so it goes smoothly without - OOPS, need to sieve that glaze and Where is the...? Cannot do much in the studio once the firing is fuming.

Would love to be able to use my newer kiln for the glaze firing but it is still sitting on top of a cupboard where I put it in December when I brought it home. Getting it out of the car alone was challenging. Getting it down to floor level alone is not an option. That darn big kiln I never wanted is CLUTTER of the worst kind. It is taking up the space for the nice small one.

My cookie cutters arrived on Monday and I have tried them out, getting an idea of how dry the clay needs to be for clean cuts. The stamps are at my friend's in NYS and I am hoping we can zip down on Saturday to get them. Then I can do a bunch of brown sugar moisteners for Apple Hollow. I did a half dozen for this weekend, maple leaves and "sugar apples".

I decluttered a few hundred emails, finally realizing they are available elsewhere. And set up a tool chest in a cupboard with shallow drawers - lined it with carpet underlay, so things do not move when the drawers are opened, and put all the small hand tools in it, thereby clearing some space on the workbench. Sorted unfinished pots, washed the unglazed ones that have been sitting since December, ready to glaze tomorrow.

Met the bread manager, Carol, and the dog food area manager, Tara, at Super C today. Both are competent women. Carol showed me where she has set up a section for "my bread"! It is labeled and ready for tomorrow's delivery. I was wondering if the delivery would be on going! I am ready for more good bread. I mentioned my dream of her setting up a bigger section for this brand of bread and advertising it as a "new product". We'll see.

Tara told me it is best to talk to the persons "with blue shirts" as the man who told me the larger bag of puppy food would be in "tomorrow" two weeks ago, was not a blue shirt. She showed me her list of products; she cannot order a bigger bag. But suggested a couple nearby stores which might have what I need. However, I then realized the small bags of the brand I want is only a few cents more than a big bag of the Purina I want to boycott - because they sponsor killing competitions of wild animals - like raccoons.

Still looking for a clothes washer as the pile builds. Maybe R will bring one that works this week!

And Sunday is a CD launch party up the road for the Durham County Poets, a terrific group!