Beaver:

Dreadful about your groceries, SRS! Here, I can go to the grocery when it is virtually empty. When at Dupont, I can also. Sometimes I have ordered on line and it comes at a specified time to the door, in good shape. I can also order on line for pick up at the store - park in designated area and phone to let them know I am there and they bring it out. It used to be in plastic bags but recently, they switched to returnable boxes! Plastic bags are no longer acceptable in Quebec. The produce store - I prefer to pick my own - is usually empty at 6:45, closes at 7! So I dash in a whip though my shopping and get out. Staff is usually putting things away so I may miss an item. They are very kind and helpful but I don't want to keep them when they are surely anxious to get away! Of course I wear a mask in any case.

Canada Day:
Firing came out beautifully so I am sorting - some for a friend, some for the Carriage House(CH), some for the event in QC at end of August. I am back to "get out and push" today. Drank a cup of green tea, hoping it would help... I was going to try to get another load in today but I still need to glaze the rest, hopefully today. Tomorrow will do for the firing as this one was still hot; I could have done it more quickly but did not feel like hurrying. I once unloaded, and wrapped in newspaper, pottery that was HOT - until the paper started smoking! OOPS! Back to it; the tea may have helped!

Sinking back into low gear, I had another cup of tea and got pottery labeled and packed for CH, finished glazing and loaded kiln for tomorrow, threw five butter dish bottoms, hoping I did the math correctly to fit the existing lids, and one lid to fit an existing bottom (hope), then my back said, "Enough!"

Seriously concerned that the floor in the kiln room is bouncier than it was. Think I need someone to repair it before the kiln falls through, or maybe I am wrong. This is not a Dan job - it's beneath him! Also beneath the floor! Will ask around at the Farm Market tomorrow.

The Green Tea idea originated, for me, in the '90s when I went to the local library with a "splitting headache" and declared, "If the rain doesn't come soon, my head is going to break!" And was informed, snarkily: "Some people drink green tea for their weather headaches." It works! but I had forgotten about it as my reason for drinking green tea. So--- back to it! Long time since I got a headache from the weather- just feel immobilized.

The mock orange is slowly coming into flower; lovely just outside the window.

2 July: Took box of pots to Market; chatted with folks. Our local folk musician is playing today. I went home to turn kiln to hi and will go back in a bit to listen to John and chat with whomsoever is around. Spectacular day- breezy, warm, low humidity!