Ken and Dave – and the Postcards

In the days before we were doing publicity on the internet, Ken commissioned art and made postcards to announce his pottery shows.  He worked with our local Turtle Lake printer, Dave.  Dave’s family published the Turtle Lake Times, and ran a print shop.  One of Dave’s first printing jobs was to deal with that weird, long haired artist up in the woods who made pots – Ken.  Ken had an art degree and was often …

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Snow in April

Wow.  This has been quite a month and it’s only half over!  We had lows in the single digits earlier in the month, and Last weekend many of us got a foot of new snow after an earlier eight inches.  So, today I was shoveling.      Today sun was in the forecast, so I went down and opened vents and shoveled out the area by the door.  The sides have so much snow!   …

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Bread and Crackers

I took on Ken’s sourdough when he died.  I am still learning about bread baking, but can do a passable loaf.         I ended up with extra sourdough.  I guess this is a fairly common occurrence.  I am not a big pancake eater – one of the ways to use the extra starter, but I decided to try the recipe using starter in crackers.  Today I made my first batch, and I …

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