Stewart Creations

I just got back from Rocky Point, first time I’ve been there in years(if I’m remembering correctly… how easy is it to forget a trip to Rocky Point?). Fae had an operation on her tear duct and Pnut had an operation on the other end. Now he’s neutered and I can get his license a lot cheaper.
Both the dogs are fine, and I am full of Mexican beer and Mexican pastries. I even got to bring home a fish and some asparagus. The asparagus was only 60 cents a pound or so. Figure the price is in kilos and the exchange is more than 11 to one. In fact at the bank was 12 to one, but you don’t get that in the fruiteria, I got about 1130 to one. The bank won’t do it for under a hundred dollars, I think their love affair with American dollars is at an end, what with all the value drops.

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This little plate is the best thing I have made so far in ceramics class. It is about 8 inches by 10 inches.
I signed up for the 3 credit Mata Ortiz ceramic class/trip. Mata Ortiz is about 100 miles south of New Mexico a little northeast of the Casa Grande ruins. I hope we get to go see them, the ruins, while we are there.
I will be back in early June and unemployed. I might take a Spanish class this summer, but that won’t take a lot of time and I have my eyes on the evening class anyway, I have heard good things about the teacher for that particular class.
I love sales, and have even thought of commission only sales for the summer, which is the easiest job to get in this economy. I looked here life insurance lead . Just not sure what I might find, but I AM half-way looking. I don’t want to work hard.
Paris came up with ‘posterior glaucoma unemployment’ which translates into ‘I can’t see my a55 getting a real job’. That’s me.
I also am looking into an internship with Shell. They are one of my most promising targets for Planet Cornucopia money, as they donate a lot and have a large non-profit unit. I would consider working in the non-profit part of Shell Oil, and an internship would be a great place to start.

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School work on spring break, no less. Shouldn’t I be drinking my a55 off in Rocky Point? But no, I will need to work a little bit every day to be on top when classes resume. So Paris is coming over today to help me polish up the web sites. He is also going to teach me how to ‘fish’ for myself, you know, ‘give a man a fish and he’ll eat today, but teach him to fish and he’ll eat for life’. Which is kind of what I hope to accomplish in Hondurus. I believe the internet is the biggest thing I can bring to them. I will of course need a laptop computer of my own on site, but I am looking in to the rules and regs for importing computers to them. If nothing else, I can bring chips and boards with me and build what they need.
The ecommerce part of my project is really the whole point, that and the gardens. Whatever trinket or goods the community can produce isn’t as important as the act of connecting to the world at large to market the goods. This, I believe, will set them free. And the gardens.
I don’t believe that a local government can take your freedom if you can communicate with the global population, and you know what they all have been going through down there in Central and South America from governments, theirs and mine. For several generations these people have been constantly uprooted, undermined, threatened and disrespected by the powers-that-be. No wonder family units have disappeared and they have lost the will to take care of themselves.
I would like to see a world with free internet signal in the very air around this whole globe, like Tesla intended.

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Ceramics class is so much fun !! I made it my Honors class and the Professor and I picked out a project already. I’m going to research a kiln made and fired with native 3rd-world materials.
So far I found a shape that draws the heat across the clay pots fast which heats it even more (!) and I’m pretty amazed about that. The best way to build this shape is to dig it into a hill. But you need clay, sand, loam, be sure to avoid using rocks which will explode in the 2,000 celsius degree heat. Sounds pretty exciting. I plan to make a diorama-type model. Maybe this summer i can try it for reals if I go on the trip to Mata Ortiz.
That’s in Mexico and has very famous potters. Who knew?
So, evidently, they have good clay right there in arroyos. Maybe I can dig a kiln and test fire it.
I had an idea to make clay stamps for hobbyists, initials and such. Like the rubber stamps the scrapbookers use. But so far I have made a Mata Ortiz-style pot. And that’s it. So far. Here’s a pic of the Mata Ortiz demonstration and some of their pots.

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It was a lot more painful than usual. Usually I breeze through dental work and hardly notice, but this time I had terrific pain overnight. Dr. Socorro did the root-canal the back tooth and reshaped the one on the other side of the gap, put temporaries on, and I figured it was business as usual. Until the novacaine wore off !!!!! OUCH !!!
I had all this exposed nerve ending pain all afternoon. It ruined my visit with my niece and her sweet bambinos. So I went back to Mom’s and took three sleeping pills. It wasn’t so bad the next morning.
Then I got my beautiful caps and bridge, I’m almost back to normal in there. I still tend to eat on the other side, out of habit.
I loved visiting with the campers on the beach. I met some interesting folk who live in a bus with their kids. They do the same home school dealie as Joleen’s kids, I think.

http://organictribe.blogspot.com/

go here to see their blog. It’s a good one.
Joleen’s husband, Dave, makes a great shrimp feast. We had great weather and lots of good food, company and well-behaved children. I swear Joleen’s kids are the best-looking and smartest kids in the world. My new pals’ four kids are incredible, too. I love this new generation! I expect great world-shaking and planet-saving things from them. We are truly blessed with our children.
J & D have a real cushy 5th wheel, with the huge TV and all the comforts you’d want.
Thanks guys for the cozy couch! Best couch surfing spot EVER!
Their TV has it’s own cupboard that closes up like a wall, but I know it must be put on with some pretty steady plasma mount contraptions.

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Today I am packing ziplock baggies of dog food for the freezer so we can easily travel with it. The trip is only four or five hours of driving, but we need meals for the three dogs for two or three days. I’m sure there will be turkey leftovers for one meal, but they need some of their own, too.
These dogs of ours are pretty well-fed. Not fat, they get off-the-leash walks almost every day, but they eat all home cooking, nothing canned.
I make their chicken, carrot, rice food every week in the crockpot on the back porch. When we go on a trip they get it frozen in little baggies. These travel in the ice chest and then we just throw away the baggie. Total portability. Of course, we will recycle the baggie if we can, but Rocky Point so far has not got up to speed on recycling plastics.
They have security cameras everywhere, though. The parking lot of the motel we will be staying in, The Granada del Mar, phone number (from the U.S dial these numbers –>) 011 52 638 383 2742
has security cameras, and if you look for it on the web you’ll run into Manny’s beach cam. He has the party up and running 24/7. Not much to see until weekends, though, the beach is pretty quiet until party time.

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I finally made a small enough copy of the latest project to upload here.  I ended up making the ‘Moon Silk’ letters silver before I turned it in.  I used a light part of the bottle in the eyedropper for color, added a nice drop shadow on the letters and it looks great.  Oh, and at the last minute I put small script ‘eau de parfum’ curved to fit the lable  on the right bottom.

I had great fun.  I have a lot of fun with all the art classes.

We have decided to go to Mom’s in Rocky Point for Thanksgiving, we won’t be here to do our shopping on that “black friday”  I prefer Cyber Monday anyhow.  The deals I have found on previous Thanksgiving “black friday” haven’t really been that great.  I mostly stick to the internet, and count on chance encounters with great deasl while I’m just out shopping in general.  You know, you find something that just screams “Aunt Nete for Christmas!”  and it’s really only Halloween?  I’m like that.

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I went to Mexico the other day with my gal pal Pam, and visited the little old ladies in my life.
I stayed with Mom, and got to visit with Mary twice.
Mary just had her 93 rd birthday… YOU GO GIRL!!
Her parties are pretty wild, so I hated to miss this one, just didn’t have time to go to Rocky Point. But she had the big party; rented the hall, and had the band, the keg, the food, and everything.
I got some pics of Mary, Pam, Mom, etc, See if you can tell who’s who.

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