We are now the proud owner of our family's first cast. Well, Joann is the proud owner, I just get to take lots of pictures (I have pictures of the incisions under the cast, but decided to not post them. If you want to see the cut, let me know). Neither one of us has ever had a cast before and it was very interesting watching her arm being casted. Very different from what we thought it would be - they use a fiber glass tape that has a water activated crosslinking polymer embedded in it to form the cast. I was thinking they would be whipping up some plaster of Paris and ripping up some cloth strips to dip in it. Nice thing with the new technology, it sets up really fast compared to waiting for a plaster cast to set. The technology aside, Jo is now the proud owner of baby blue cast. She is making progress on her healing and the cast feels more protective of her arm so she is a little bit more aggressive with using it, but it is still another four weeks before the cast is removed.
To keep Jo occupied we fired the kiln last week - well we were ready to fire the kiln independent of her surgery, but it seemed like a good thing to take her mind off of her hand. This was just a bisque firing to prepare our works for glazing, so not quite as exciting since there is still another step before we are ready to display them. But it is always fun to see something get up to 1,900 degrees F - glowing red hot. Most of the works this time where clay luminaries - think rectangular boxes, into which you put candles, with Christmas themed cut-outs in the side (I hope to post a picture of them lit up sometime in the next few weeks). The rest of the kiln was filled with various pots and other works.
The first snow shoveling also happened this week as we got about 3-4 inches of snow over the weekend. Fortunately, the weather is turning warm this week so I didn't have to do a really good job. I toyed with the idea of just leaving it and waiting for nature to get rid of it, but I just couldn't get my head around leaving snow un-shoveled, try as I might. Our last fun event for the week was the Milwaukee Art Museum reopened their new addition this weekend. They added a new section and had the permanent collection has been closed since the start of the construction. They did a nice job on the addition and rejuvenated all their displays - they are now displaying an additional 1,000 works of art which is good. After the museum, we had a lovely lunch at our favorite barbecue place - the Smoke Shack - nothing like pulled pork sandwiches on a cold winter day.
We are now the proud owner of our family's first cast. Well, Joann is the proud owner, I just get to take lots of pictures (I have pictures of the incisions under the cast, but decided to not post them. If you want to see the cut, let me know). Neither one of us has ever had a cast before and it was very interesting watching her arm being casted. Very different from what we thought it would be - they use a fiber glass tape that has a water activated crosslinking polymer embedded in it to form the cast. I was thinking they would be whipping up some plaster of Paris and ripping up some cloth strips to dip in it. Nice thing with the new technology, it sets up really fast compared to waiting for a plaster cast to set. The technology aside, Jo is now the proud owner of baby blue cast. She is making progress on her healing and the cast feels more protective of her arm so she is a little bit more aggressive with using it, but it is still another four weeks before the cast is removed.
To keep Jo occupied we fired the kiln last week - well we were ready to fire the kiln independent of her surgery, but it seemed like a good thing to take her mind off of her hand. This was just a bisque firing to prepare our works for glazing, so not quite as exciting since there is still another step before we are ready to display them. But it is always fun to see something get up to 1,900 degrees F - glowing red hot. Most of the works this time where clay luminaries - think rectangular boxes, into which you put candles, with Christmas themed cut-outs in the side (I hope to post a picture of them lit up sometime in the next few weeks). The rest of the kiln was filled with various pots and other works.
The first snow shoveling also happened this week as we got about 3-4 inches of snow over the weekend. Fortunately, the weather is turning warm this week so I didn't have to do a really good job. I toyed with the idea of just leaving it and waiting for nature to get rid of it, but I just couldn't get my head around leaving snow un-shoveled, try as I might. Our last fun event for the week was the Milwaukee Art Museum reopened their new addition this weekend. They added a new section and had the permanent collection has been closed since the start of the construction. They did a nice job on the addition and rejuvenated all their displays - they are now displaying an additional 1,000 works of art which is good. After the museum, we had a lovely lunch at our favorite barbecue place - the Smoke Shack - nothing like pulled pork sandwiches on a cold winter day.
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