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A little preview for you all, and more pages are up on the site. We're exhausted and loopy and halfway into planning issue 2 :)

I started it at 7ish this morning, on a medium fire at the lowest setting recommended for an initial fire: Cone 04 to (sputter) 1946 degrees. Takes 7 hours and I did everything right EXCEPT for looking at my manual after it hit 1000 and realizing the lid needed to be propped open by about 2 inches until it had gotten to that temp. Woo!
Nothing's blown up! There are also birds flying around on the fence occasionally and none of them have ignited yet :)

So Catherine and I decided to use these plates as a starting point for Reading In Public 2011. A whole YEAR to plan this one. We're now working on RIP 2010 which promises to be a ton of fun, just working out one detail...
A question for you guys: the palette on this one came too quickly for me, am wondering if I've seen it someplace before. Am still working on it, but like everything else I have to have several things going at once :)

Based on an intersection between the Tit family of birds and... y'know :)
The bearded t(w)it!

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9 months and counting. We may discover we have a horse!

So, Tom takes Hannah and Beebs for a 5k turkey trot. At the end of the day, Hannah is sore all over and has a blister on the bottom of one foot. BB comes home, goes straight to his bed, and can't get up, not even to eat. $365, 2 vet visits and a set of x-rays later we find he's probably just pulled a muscle, the big baby. Tom? He outlasted a puppy and an 8-year old.