gary navarre on wed 25 jun 08
Hay Crew,
Well I finally got management to keep my hours to 24 so I can rest up on 4 days in a row off... in theory anyway. When up to it I started dragging the slash out of where the loggers clear cut the Maple, Poplar, and Balsam out behind the house. Now I have to build the shed/wood-rack so the fuel can get put up off the ground. To do that there was a Maple stump it took about a year to dig out that had to be removed and that finally came out today. For starters though, here is a short piece about getting some Cedar posts from behind Leslie's place...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRcRF2CMFnU
... after that I went way out back and dragged out some real long Cedar sticks that got knocked over by the loggers (man they made a mess).
Some folks might recall last years photo progress and now I have the videos in editing and got started posting those starting with uncovering the kiln in spring and explaining some of the features with a friend John asking decent questions, even if you can't hear him too good...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1EPC37p82Q
... John does some paintings but knows little of how kilns work.
This next clip is one of those required lab demos ya gotta sit through cause if ya can't you are probably too hyper for pottery. I think cutting brick by hand is the cheapest way to go about it because if properly laid out the need to cut is minimized and power tools an un-necessary expense even if it takes 5 minutes longer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjz3ybhm-9s
... I like how the brick snaps in two near the end! Then we take a short walk-about to look at where kiln elements will sit.
About a month later the location and structure of the kiln elements are roughed in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW1yhZX1w-M
... of course some details will change over the rest of summer '07, especially the making of a real throat arch but that remains to be seen later.
I added a frame from a video of the doe and a fawn since a lot of my time has been spent filming Olof and Mummy Deer going at it rather aggressively. To put it bluntly Olof has been getting his ass wiped. That doe is pretty smart though hanging around here because Olof chases the other predators away and he is the only one she has to deal with. Turns out she had twins again and I got some nice footage of them romping and nursing. This JVC with 34X zoom is awesome. I even bought extra lenses and battery when I should be getting some arch bricks and some soaps for shelf posts.
That's it so far so stay in there!
Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/
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