Fall forward

Reposted from offcenter.biz:

Signs it's fall at Off Center Ceramics:

• The fridge is full of apples.
• Raincoat moves to the hook closest the door (waterproof shoes likewise).
• Quilt comes back out of the linen closet to cover the toe zone of the bed.
• Extra layers worn to Saturday Market and Club Mud (frequently forgotten there as the sun comes out around midday).
• Pottery production goes into high gear!

After a summer that includes jaunts up into Washington and down south to Roseburg, fall sales are closer to home: Fall Festival in Corvallis, Clay Fest in Eugene. But looming over the horizon in November are my biggest show of the year, Clayfolk (the weekend before Thanksgiving in Medford) and the biggest continuous run of sales, Holiday Market at the Lane County Fairgrounds in Eugene, which we join in progress Thanksgiving weekend and continue right to Christmas Eve.

I've just unloaded a kiln to stock the first two sales; I'll need at least two more 50 cubic-foot firings to get me to Christmas. I just had a ton of clay dropped on my driveway last week. It's time to start making that into pottery.

Last sign of fall at Off Center Ceramics:

• When we go to recruit bears for Saturday Market, they're all hiding under the quilt at the end of the bed...