Dupont:

Good to find out what I was doing a month ago--- Seems like a month but it really only was 15 days. Same old, same old. Realizing I am no longer enthusiastic about potting. Those I threw 6 weeks ago went to Beaver with us and came back again, still untrimmed. Not going to take them again - next week we are going for The holidays. I did re-wrap them to re-moisturize.... Informed Robin I will not be using the studio at the mill; we need to clear it out; he may have another use for the space. I can advertise the wheels and kilns for sale if I get down there and make note of the particulars. I will keep one each just in case. I just don't seem to care anymore; prefer to read books and connect with people on FB. We no longer watch TV at all.

All the pottery is in the Carriage House and getting sold piece by piece. I had a surprise phone call during our last trip back to QC; I entertained everyone in Tim Hortons's in Tweed,ON - I was so surprised I forgot to take it outside! My big bowl customers (the husband) had found my card in the bottom of a drawer and did I have more bowls?? If he had phoned before we left Beaver... So I will pick up a selection this trip and bring them to QC so they can choose more. "We like your bowls!" Maybe I could will them whatever remains when I am no longer. Maybe I need to make more so they can have more... This is an 8 year relationship - their kids are now 6 and 7. And we have only conversed a very few sentences a year. The phone call was amazing! Somehow they missed my booth at the CVAA event in August. I had been looking forward to seeing them there.

My musician friend did manage to get the lovely old pump organ and is thrilled to have it. The piano was too heavy.

Waiting for the snow! I bought an evergreen wreath and decorated it with blue and yellow fabric, some little white doves, a little red bird, and fabric sunflowers. I bought a wreath of lights for it but no outdoor outlet works, and no place to hang it out of the weather so I need to bring it in when the snow starts. That and six strands of very tiny white lights draped over the 4 foot Ficus in the front window, are my salute to the winter solstice, other folks can think what they will. The returning light, lengthening days is clearly the most important day of the year.

I dug a sweet potato plant in the late fall. It did not look great but I potted it and now it is looking good so I will repot it in a larger pot when the bucket of soil thaws. It will live in the upstairs south window 'til spring pops over the windowsill. And so on...