Leland Hall on fri 29 jul 05
Thank you all so much, those who have written with their support and good
wishes. I can not express how much it means to us. I am feeling far to
overwhelmed to write to each of you singlely, there are too many. Bless
you.
I just don't know what happened. I spent close to 10 years building our
studio and raku shed with my own two hands. I had been working 6 and 7 days
a week for so long, that beginning this past spring, I felt I needed a
sabatical so to speak. I backed off to part time potting for the spring
and up untill last week. Had been spending much of my time pursuing other
intersts. Did a bisque last week, and the big kiln kept throwing a
breaker. I replaced the breaker, and removed the control box of the kiln.
Found some corroded connections, and overheated wire. Cleaned up
everything, had Georgies Ceramic in supply in Portland overnight 6 ft of
new wire. Put it all back together. Test fire went fine I thought.
Breaker held. Very cool, back in business. This was a week ago. Now this.
The fire marshal believes it was "probably" and electrical fire. Oh jeeze,
what did I miss? I'll never know. I'm no expert, but I've been working
with house wireing since I was a kid, and I'm 50 now. What did I miss?
Judy keeps reminding me that the fire Marshal "thinks" is was electrical.
Not "knows". What ever. It is also true that I have been working on an
old Mauser. (hi Phil!) Hand rubbed Tung oil gunstock. I know about the
possibility of spontaneous combustion with oily rages. I THOUGHT I had
been mindful to soak all the used rags in a metal water can. What did I
miss? Don't get to know. Don't even get to know if I missed anything.
Could have been rodents I guess.
Any way, no one was injured, and our home is intact. Bless the stars on
that one. I was also able to save the two vehicles which were paked next
to the studio.
I have not as yet taken but the most rudementry of invetories. I know that
all three kilns are lost. It appears that I still have a ton or so of
clay. Gerstly Borate was in two seperate stock piles. One is lost, the
other 300 lbs was in a stainless storage container. Should be fine. Wheel
is good, I THINK. It looks like the 20 gallon glaze tubs are ok, but they
were all rather low, as it about time to make glaze. Dry clay inventory
looks pretty shot, as does many of the fritts and colorants. They were on
high shelves and the plastic buckets melted right out from under them.
Heaps of copper carb, cobalt, iron and such. It's a bizzare sight, inside
whats left of the structure. Fortunately, a lifetimes collection of
mechanics tools, carpentry tools, and gunsmithing tools (and the firearm
collection) is all intact. Compressor and oxyacetalene outfit, intact.
This is good beyond belief. Tools. But I swear, I don't know if have the
health, the heart or the energy to rebuild.
Several of you have asked about insurance. It disturbs me greatly to have
to say, nope. Not a cent. May I swear now? (wheres the little icon smily
of the guy beating his head against a wall?)
I guess the first order of the day, is to figure out how to get power to
our domestic well. The well and pump are in the studio. We have no water
now. Oh jeeze, I don't know where to start.
Someone wrote and mentioned NERF? (something like that?) This is what, a
relif orgination for craftpeople? And OPA? Oregon Potters Association?
Any contact information would be appreciated.
About our Clayart Subscription. For some reason unbeknownst to us, it
comes into outlook express everyday. But when we click on the attachment
icon, we get a message from OE stateing that OE has "removed this dangerous
attachment". Judy spent a couple of hours last night trying to figure this
out.
A couple of years ago, I recieved clay art fine. Then I changed our
subription, how we recieved it. Hasn't been right since. I have been into
the "change your settings" page a dozen times, and tried every
combination. No go. So I can post through the clayart main page, but can
not acess clayart current discussions. Don't know what to do. We're
stumped.
I gotta go. Throw some beauties for me guys, would ya?
Peace.
Leland Hall, Judy Hannon
Before The Wheel Enterprises
Raku Pottery and Sculpture
La Pine, Oregon
b4thewheel@bendnet.com
Snail Scott on fri 29 jul 05
At 09:14 AM 7/29/2005 -0400, Leland H wrote:
>The fire marshal believes it was "probably" and electrical fire...
>Someone wrote and mentioned NERF? (something like that?) This is what, a
>relif orgination for craftpeople?
CERF is the Craft Emergency Relief Fund, which
is supported mainly by donations and exists just
for circumstances like this. If you are a full-time
or mostly-full-time professional craft artist who
has has a catatrophe, you are eligible to apply for
their assistance.
Contact:
Cornelia Carey
Executive Director
P.O. Box 838
Montpelier, VT 05601
phone:802/229-2306
fax: 802/223-6484
http://www.craftemergency.org/
-Snail
Gene & Dolita Dohrman on fri 29 jul 05
In light of Mama Lili's latest post about bumps in the road, I think this
certainly drives it home. And this is a big "not chosen" one for Leland.
A quote from that post:
"But before we get all dewy eyed--there are real bumps out there. Not
self-set tests, not shows, not mine-is-more-reduced-than-yours
contests...but challenges that were not chosen."
Dolita
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Marta Matray Gloviczki on fri 29 jul 05
Leland Hall >
>...So I can post through the clayart main page, but can not acess clayart
current discussions. Don't know what to do. We're stumped.>>>>>>>
leland,
you can access clayart current discussions thru this website:
http://www.acers.org/clayart
you dont have to be a clayart subscriber, or dont even
need to have an e-mail address to be able to read clayart.
its out there, free to all ...
good luck with everything else,
and contact cerf.
marta
Hank Murrow on fri 29 jul 05
On Jul 29, 2005, at 6:14 AM, Leland Hall wrote:
> Someone wrote and mentioned NERF? (something like that?) This is
> what, a
> relif orgination for craftpeople?
CERF.........
> And OPA? Oregon Potters Association?
> Any contact information would be appreciated.
http://www.oregonpotters.org/Home.htm
And its president: nelson@chehalemmountainpottery.com
Cheers, Hank
www.murrow.biz/hank
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