She has been in our family for 15 years so to lose Extra this week has been very sad. It is barely over a month ago that she charmed us by tiptoeing into the workshop where the Feral Choir were running through their songs and sat down to listen to the harmonies with unusual feline interest. She was called 'Extra' because she was extra to requirements at the time we got her, but soon became an essential part of family life. She was always around to meet us, a constant companion and reassuring presence. She was one of the best natured cats I have known and would play with velvet paws. Rugs were never flat for long, one of her passions was scrabbling them up. She spent her last week under her favourite bush in the rockery listening to the outside sounds. The garden seems very empty now - how we miss her!
Meanwhile in this heatwave Timbalada seems to have been too hot and ‘out for the count’ to notice that she is missing.
Ho-hot! Why oh why have I had so many kilns to fire over the last two weeks. I have been firing the two kilns ( the small top loader and the big font loading kiln) back to back, only possible if I really push it, as in unloading with sweat trickling down me as was the case yesterday, and then glazing and repacking the same day! I must have managed to get through six weeks work in three. I have moved proceedings outside into the courtyard where there is a bit of shade - the workshop has been unbearable.
But I am NOT complaining , it has been lovely, more vitamin D absorbed in the last few weeks than in the last three years. Meals outside and a few quick swims in the sea to cool off when the tide obliged.
It is of course the big push for Potfest in the Park next weekend. I am just about there, though I don’t have quite as many new larger pieces as I would have liked - partly because people kept coming into the showroom and buying the ones I had mentally ‘put on one side’ for Potfest. In past years this hasn’t happened as I have stashed things away, but I have been a little short of pots all year (all the knock-on effect from that awful winter of illness), and have to keep the showroom looking good.
Mind you, three kins still to unpack has to help!
Riddle me riddle me riddle me re,
What has eight legs and comes From the sea?
You might hazard a guess - you may think that you know,
Come to Potfest next weekend -its all at the show.
Extra looks like such a sweet kitty. How fortunate you were to have her in your lives for fifteen years. Our 4Leg family members are so missed when they go. All we can do is remember the joy they have given us.
ReplyDeleteToes crossed for excellent sales, weather and all good things for Potfest in the Park. That is an incredible poster or card.
Lobster!