Monday morning

The weekend was a mixed bag - with the balance tipping toward the positive.
It was windy in Palo Alto over the weekend, and Chris said that the windiness affected crowd attendance at the art show. So he won't be bringing home as many coins as usual..but that's the way it goes in this business . The good news is that a friend saw pics of the latest firing on Flickr, and inquired about one of the pieces...and voila'...she bought it! And we had some visitors to our area stop by the studio yesterday, and they loved what they saw and went home with two pieces of our pottery. So all is well. I'll be making more ware today for a show two weeks from now in Capitola. Hoping for good weather. Coming up this coming weekend is the Kings Mountain Art Fair, an annual event in Woodside over the Labor Day Weekend. Chris will be there.

There was an interesting outcome to Donna's sheep adventure. She had accidentally come across an auction of animals a few weeks ago and had promised to pay the owner of a family of sheep- a mother and her son and daughter - $100. if he'd hold them until she found homes for them. Saturday was the zero hour for her claiming the sheep family of 3. The two weeks was up. The owner said that if she didn't come to pick them up, they would be butchered.
She'd called everyone she knew who might be interested, but no takers. She didn't want them killed. It was a dilemma.
So, then came a knock on her door. It was her friend, Mike, and his son, who'd decided to drop in to say hi and to see how she was. He lives about 50 miles from her. Mike was a stranger who had to come to Ukiah, in the spring, for chemotherapy, and since she has a big house, she'd told the Cancer Society that she could accommodate a chemo patient who had to travel to undergo treatment - someone who needed a place to stay. She wouldn't charge anything for the room. So he stayed with her for a couple of months. She's a nurse-practitioner who practices a Buddhist philosophy.
When she told Mike about her sheep problem, he immediately said that he'd take them to his 15 acre farmette on the coast! He helped her load them up in his truck, took them to the coast, and the sheep will live out their lives there, happily, keeping the brush down.
Mike has people and animals on his land that he's helped. This was such a heart-warming ending to the sheep saga. Do I hear a "what goes around, comes around?" !
Donna is now running a wellness clinic in Ukiah.
I haven't yet mentioned my other children very much, I realize. Lynn is a drug abuse counselor, Paul is a Senior trainer for a computer software company, and Jon works in television. I have a grandson who is an actor and Jiu-Jitsu teacher, and a grandson who is a first-grader. I love my family.