audience participation permitted

Dear folks....

Has it really been a month since our last post? Man, we are really bad at this blogging thing. Cheyenne would be so good at it if she would remember...and I'm not very good at it and I remember even less. Oh Well....

Well I did get a couple of kind words from folks in response to my last post about my family. Thanks y'all.

So we are busy busy here at Rudolph Clay Studios. I'm making pots like a mad man for this upcoming firing at St. Pete Clay. Again, I got to hand it to them St. Pete Clay guys! 10-4!

So I've been so perplexed about this blogging thing lately. I wish I had the ambition to write as much as some folks. Michael Kline, how do you do it? I can't be convinced that folks really want to hear about our day to day operations and our struggles at being full time potters/full time regular jobbers. But maybe folks is....maybe they is. Well I'll post some pics of the new work I have going on in the studio tomorrow hopefully. We do have a decent excuse for our lack of blog postings. Our Internet has been down for a couple of weeks, and as much as I would like to type a blog post using my phone...it didn't happen.
Maybe folks can help us get motivated with this blog thing...
to any and all people that read this blog...
what I want to do is get some audience participation here....
folks, go to your kitchen cabinet and grab the pot (ceramic or otherwise) you find yourself using all the time for whatever. Why do you feel compelled to us this vessel or dish or pot or what have you? What is it about this piece you like the most? describe it to me! If you can, post a picture of said pot! seriously, I would really love to hear what people have to say! If it's only like a sentence or a paragraph...hit me!!!!
So now it's off to bed. have had a killer headache sweating me all day. The Florida sun is brutal this time of year. It's not easy to work in some days. But I have to get up early and head to the site in Tampa. We are excavating a large prehistoric site actually east of Tampa in the Wesley Chapel area. Mostly a lithic site so we aren't finding much that is diagnostic...but it's very interesting stuff. Lots of people were living (probably) but definitely hunting there a couple thousand years ago. Just a rough guess about the timeline. It's so hard to tell when we have found very few intact projectile points and even less pottery. the pottery we are finding is very crude and tempered heavily with limestone. anyway...that's that.
seriously folks! please send me some stuff about your favorite pot!
later.
nigel