priddy on fri 11 aug 00
There has been a vast amount of seaweed washed up on our beaches
here on the outer banks. Literally 2000 dumptrucks full (at least) =
of Sargassum seaweed washed ashore here from the West Indies and =
lies in wait for anyone with a desire for it-or without, for that matter!=
Boat captains are saying it goes on for miles offshore, so there
will be plenty for weeks if anyone has the need for this bounty.
Pit-firing seaweed users can find a map to our undiscovered country at
http://www.sunnync.com
Atlantic Beach is particularly densely covered!
I think you might even be able to wait for off season rates and still
make off with quite a haul. Bring shovels and garbage bags. =
And visit me if you feel like it. Call first: 252-504-2622 =
It is green wet and dries brown and crumbly. Come and get it!
Elizabeth
marveling that nature offers up so many oddities along with the wonders. =
and rumors of my alien abduction were vastly exaggerated! I am alive =
and ok, although not particualarly well. I hope to be back up to speed
soon and back in the fracus that I have been missing.
You really miss the hundreds of messages a day when you don't get to read=
them
regularly...
respectfully submitted,
elizabeth priddy
priddy-clay@usa.net
http://www.angelfire.com/nc/clayworkshop
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GURUSHAKTI@AOL.COM on fri 11 aug 00
Dear Elizabeth:
Besides being good for saggar and pit firing, the washed seaweed is a great,
free, fertilizer for the garden and compost heap!
Warm regards,
June Perry
Hank Murrow on fri 11 aug 00
>Dear Elizabeth:
>
>Besides being good for saggar and pit firing, the washed seaweed is a great,
>free, fertilizer for the garden and compost heap!
>
>Warm regards,
>June Perry
Dear June and Elizabeth;
In Japan, some potters stack their pots with unwashed seaweed
between them, sort of loosely packed. They get real nice salty marks from a
C/8+ firing where the seaweed touches.
Hank in Eugene
GURUSHAKTI@AOL.COM on sat 12 aug 00
I saw some similar pots in one of my trips to Japan. They also wrap salt
soaked straw around the wood fired pots and get intriguing linear marks on
the pots. I'll have to try my nice, dry, kelp in my little soda kiln (when it
gets built - hopefully this fall.
Warm regards,
June
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