Let the sun shine

Once a year, Club Mud has an all-shop clean-up. We do some cleaning between-times: Linda hoses down the floors once a week, and we're expected to do the glaze and kiln room floors when we're firing. But this is the time we all turn out and scrub bats, organize the materials room, clean the microwave. (Don't think too much about that last one.)

This year, we got a HEPA-rated shop vac, so can safely vacuum without concentrating free silica into the air--it's so fine, it goes right through a standard vacuum filter. So I cleaned up all the bits and pieces of brick and shelf chips around the big gas kiln, then vacuumed up the dust and grit. Afterwards, I took on my usual task--going up on the ladder and cleaning the windows.

It's amazing how much dirt they collect; some of it is clay dust, but most seems to be soot from the gas kiln. See how much brighter the clean side is?

Alert

Apparently today is Tortoise Shell Cat Appreciation Day? In celebration, here's a pic of Tiki, on high alert.

She just spotted a spider on the ceiling.

Prepared

It's still a month until Saturday Market opens, but having two consecutive days of sunshine this week meant I had to back the van out of the carport, pull out all of the boxes, and sort and pack pots for Market. Because of our early February firing, we had pretty much everything in stock again. Now, though, it's all sorted into the proper boxes, loaded into the van in the proper order.


Of course, this means if anyone gets in touch to buy something, I have to pull it out of the van again. But it still feels good to have everything prepared.

I even have the roof back on the canopy.