Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon
Turns out making cylinders is hard. In clay. Kate and I are rank beginners at this clay thing, but we are taking a class with others who aren’t. This makes life difficult for the teacher and for us rank beginners. Near the end of Day 2 today I think I got how to draw up the wall of a cylinder. Light touch, right hand and left hand equal pressure for pressure, move up, relax and the lip, repeat.
Kate’s arthritic thumbs gave out about 3 pm today. Now that she has the new hips and the back fusion, her pain load is less, but the arthritis moves around, finding new joints to bug. The hands have been less bothersome up till now because the hips and the back were worse. Now though… She also wears out after about four hours. She did the other day (did I write this already?) how surprised she is at the effect major surgery has on her stamina.
We’re both having fun though, trying out new modes of expression, learning new things together.
