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[greenstorm]

Doing pottery is so good but oh my goodness my core stability muscles. Working on the wheel I notice my lessened finger strength (all my strength is lessening, because obviously I'm a lot less active than I used to be with everything, and I've been using aids like wheelbarrows to move feed sacks etc) but it's when I stand up and then try to get myself home, and then try to get myself out of bed the next day, that I notice the core stuff.

Working my way through the backlog of stuff I wanted to make though! And I still have my skill, and I'm pretty fast so I can make a bunch of stuff in my window of ability. Another pottery studio person was there and she was newer to pottery than I am, and she didn't get through the quantity that I did.

(She also had most of the glaze kiln full of her work, which is absolutely gorgeous linework with fine black glaze tips and then colour, it is a privilege to watch her develop her style and to understand her experimentation and iteration on the way to her goals)

It's chilly here, perfect weather to stay in bed and recover. When it's chilly enough all 4 cats get on the bed, they really like the electric blanket. Not that it matters as much as all that, I can't stay awake right now for anything.

In a couple days I need to figure out my woad harvest and what to say to the doctor I'm seeing (my own doctor is unavailable till mid October so I'm seeing an interim doctor in the hopes of coaxing my referral out, but my prescriptions are also running out. thank goodness they let pharmacists fill in the gaps)

In the next week and a half I need to set the farm up to run while I'm gone. The auto waterers are set up, I need to empty the quail house for the auto goose feeder (they are going through *so much* food right now as they fatten up, it's astonishing. Well over twice as much what they were two weeks ago) and build a little auto feeder for the garden muscovies, as well as putting a pallet house up for them if I have time. It's doable in the time I have but I'm hanging myself up on making a door. Which way does the Z support run? Looking things like that up remains challenging.

I'm getting some nice tomatoes from the miracle cheriette line in a number of flavours, which is fun, and it seems to have switched from broccoli to zucchini bounty.

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[squirrelitude]

Couldn't tell if you'd already gotten the answer to the Z-support thing (and were just using it as an example) or still had that pending, so in the latter case:

I believe it goes in the direction that puts it under compression as the door tries to sag. So the part adjacent to the hinges would be at the bottom.

[greenstorm]

I had totally forgotten, thank you for reminding me! If I build the door today, not only will I not forget again, but I'll have a template to work from next time. :)