My library was neat until Jerry recently stored half his office inside...
A Marble Coyote Back Splash In Progress.
I’ve mentioned that we bought out a ceramics studio back around 2003. We ended up with five kilns, kiln furniture, over 3000 molds, a couple of pouring tables, tools, paints, slip, marble and granite for designing back splashes, and supplies. Jerry wasn’t working for anyone else at the time and I had my small publishing / book sales business. We needed another business for him and he is a journeyman tile setter so it seemed a natural extension of his skills to get into ceramics. I began to dabble in mosaic art because it’s closely related (I can make my own materials with a studio). We bought a bunch of books and became self taught potters.
About a year later, Jerry got an opportunity to remodel houses. This would provide a steady income so we pretty much put the ceramics / mosaics venture, which is based on sales, on hold. Seeing as the studio is on our property letting things sit is no big deal. We still dabble and Jerry's designed several one-of-a-kind back splashes for the houses he's remodeled.
Then about a year ago, Jerry moved out of his office that he shared with Bruno to let Bruno have the whole room to himself. Well, his everyday stuff is in his new office against one of our bedroom walls and the rest ended up stacked in the ceramics studio and my “library” truck.
I didn’t know that guy had collected so much stuff!
So we bought two storage shed frames and he’s putting them up today. Besides the ceramics studio, mold room, kiln room, tool shed, two storage sheds, “library” semi truck, two travel trailers and various old vans I won’t count although the often double as storage, these will be storage buildings number eight and nine.
Can anybody say pack rats?
The last photo is the roof of the ceramics studio from the back deck. Jerry puts chairs up on the roof and it reminds me of the movie "Goin' South" where Mary Steenbergen hangs chairs on the wall. Can you say "Redneck!"
