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<\/a>how much dirt he got out of it. \u00a0I told him, but I’m not sure it registered, that our dogs really, really like this rug. \u00a0All of them. \u00a0And they come in and lie down on it. \u00a0Roll on it. \u00a0Transfer the sand from the Great Anoka Sand Plain to it, deep in its fiber. \u00a0As he now knows. \u00a0Not many folks let dogs on their multiple thousands of dollars oriental rugs, I imagine.<\/p>\n(this rug. \u00a0with favorite dog objects. \u00a0the one to the far right is a stuffed squirrel. \u00a0a big hit.)<\/p>\n
On the same trip I took a baby quilt in to Margaret Levin. \u00a0She’s due sometime in the next couple of weeks. \u00a0Says a lot about our society that she’s in her last term of pregnancy and still running the Northstar Chapter of the Sierra Club. \u00a0Kate makes lots of baby quilts. This one used cloth made from our neighbor’s mother’s stash. \u00a0When she died, it fell to Pam who gave it to Kate. \u00a0This particular cloth was from the 1930’s.<\/p>\n
We talked about politics, of course. \u00a0That was my entr\u00e9 to the Sierra Club and what I did with them for 5 years or so. \u00a0I asked her if she has the same sense I do that a cultural shift has begun on global warming. \u00a0A positive one. \u00a0She said yes, but she also said the movement thought one was happening in the 1970’s, too. \u00a0Still, you add in a Democratic President and Senate, plus the changing demographics of the U.S. population and there could be real grounds for optimism. \u00a0Whether such a shift would happen soon enough to matter? Hard to tell.<\/p>\n
Stopped by the Northern Clay Center as well. \u00a0It’s only a block from the Sierra Club. There are a lot of able potters represented there. \u00a0I’m in the market for another tea pot since I plan to return to brewing tea from tea leaves rather than tea bags when I start Loki’s Children. \u00a0A reward for finishing the third revision. \u00a0Didn’t find anything. \u00a0I plan to look on Sunday at a large pottery show, but if I don’t find anything I’ll head up to St. John’s and Richard Bresnahan. \u00a0I’ve wanted one of his teapots for some time.<\/p>\n
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