I was asking Zan rhetorically, y'know how glad we are during a school week for TGIF, but when it’s summer, it's the opposite? STIF. Sad that it’s Friday because it marks one less week of vacation. On our very last day or Friday of summer clay club, I had intended to make a plaster mold of a plate for this fall's clay club. Instead I introduced myself to Hawaiian Red and made test tiles and a couple spoons.
I also refined a couple of planters (with sandpaper) and attempted an ombré of pink and orange underglazes on a couple of cocktail cups before loading the whole kit and caboodle into the kiln.
I left room in the kiln for Zan's Navajo Red mugs, commissioned by the same client who bought her plates. I had also shown Zan my new mug that I bought from Meral. I'm sure this marble mug is from reclaimed Bmix, Speckled Buff, Navajo Wheel or Hawaiian Red.
And I was strangely tired during my swim and swam only half a workout or 15 laps. Cecilia had messaged me that she made pizza dough and wanted to grill it. I was going to grill our dinner of Filipino pork skewers and summer squash, so I included her pizzas to which she had invited the other neighbors.
I was so deep into barbecuing pizzas to take any pics, but I learned what to do next time. Move the coals to the perimeter of the grill, and lay a few extra coals in the embers because the Neapolitan style dough is thinnest in the middle than on the crust and 4 pizzas require more cooking than a single meal of meat and vegetables. We christened our Margherita pizzas, the Peninsula Pie. And next we're going to make a New Haven clam pie and concoct a pizza of mussels. And dagnabit, I forgot my clay tool bag at school and needed it for Central Park clay studio. Maybe today I will just make my own stamp. Or maybe bring a butter knife and a plaster fork for cutting and scoring some speckled buff planters. Surprise! Cecilia sent a pic of our Peninsula Pie. This pizza was the fourth pie, and was scrumptious.
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