Texas Clay Festival (Part 2 4 2)

We enjoyed the festival, albeit crowded. Out of the 50 potters, there were only 2-3 that were not well done for their genre (wood fire, high fire, low fire, salts, sculpture, hand built, Asian, traditional, etc).

We picked up a couple cards for you guys to check out:

• Diana Seidel
• Hodgson and Hodgson
• Jason Hooper
• Texas Medicine Pottery

There is also a CCP-like studio and gallery in Gruene all the time, Buck Pottery, which I really really liked.

I met your friend David and chatted with him for a moment. And we didn't buy anything for ourselves, but we did find a good little birthday present for Mom before hitting the road.

We had to get back by 7 so that we could hot foot it over to the Tavern for the game. Sox won it 10-5 but don't let the score confuse you, it was a nail bitter to the very very end.

Saturday: Texas Clay Festival

Ian and I were a little blue about not being back in Hutchinson, MN this weekend for the big Clay Coyote Fall Open House, but we quenched our pottery thirst with an afternoon trip to the Texas Clay Festival. It is held in Historic Gruene, TX which is a pretty cute little town 45 minutes south of Austin. I forgot my camera, but here are some shots off the internet of the neat little town.

We both want to go back. Try the little winery, picnic by the river, or maybe kick up our heals at the oldest dance hall in TX.

Go Red Sox!

He is getting ready for the start of the World Series tomorrow!

Settling in to the couch - ready to cheer!!!
GO Sox GO!

Peanut turns one!

Oh how I love this baby girl! Happy Birthday little one. I miss you dearly. Don't grow up too fast!

Viva la Castro conceeds again

Last year Jon had to buy the beer because he lost to the Fowls. This year it was a smack, no points. I beat him 93 to 73 this week. Well Fidel, there is always 2008.

Sorry about the hiatus....

As you can tell from the post below, we lost my grandpa last week. Seems like a whirlwind since then. I went home to my mom's at a moment's notice. I got back, have been at a conference in town the last few days and leave to NYC tomorrow for the CU Annual Meeting. I have been very insular the last few weeks and posting to the phlog has been the last thing on my mind. I hope that you will understand and send good vibes our way.

More photos and notes after the trip East when I can finally unpack and get back on schedule.

He lived a long and wonderful life.

Hugh A Price

Hugh A. Price was born in Chicago on January 5, 1913 to Hugh A. and Lillian Price. He attended Hyde Park High School and went on to get his BS at the University of Illinois. He received his MBA from The University of Chicago. He was a paint chemist for several different companies before joining DeSoto, Inc of DesPlaines, IL, where he spent 25 years of his career designing the paint sold at Sears. Hugh was President of the Color Marketing Group from 1967-69. He was most proud of being part of the team that developed the first paint mixing machine the “Mark IV” that changed how paint was sold.

He married his sweetheart, Mildred I. Williams, the girl with the big eyes, long eyelashes and pretty long curls, on August 29th, 1936. They had five children that they raised in Chicago and then Elmhurst, IL.

Hugh had many interests and hobbies. From fencing, raising award winning roses (he was the only person in the US to win three “Queen of the Show” awards from the American Rose Society), playing cribbage, gin and duplicate bridge, tropical fish, racing Porsche’s, growing orchids, ballroom dancing, fishing the waters from Canada to the Amazon, to his lifelong and favorite interest—golf. He started playing golf as a young child and continued into his late 80’s, when he had to stop due to health problems. He was a member of River Forest Country Club in Elmhurst, IL, and Royal Palm Country Club in Naples, FL. He always hoped that one of his children would take up the game.

Hugh and Mildred retired to Naples FL in 1974 where they could play golf everyday, fish and garden. It was the highlight of his life. Mildred died in 1993, at which time Hugh left Florida and went to live with his children. First Susan in Hinsdale, IL, then Betsy in Hutchinson, MN and when Minnesota winters were too hard for him, to his son Bill’s in Portland, OR.

Hugh died peacefully in Prineville, OR on October 10th at the age of 94.

He is survived by his son Hugh A. in Portland, OR, daughters Susan (Ron) Hensel of Ossian, IN; Julie Bostian of Washington DC; and Betsy Price (Tom Wirt) of Hutchinson, MN. Grandchildren, Michele Barber of Algonquin, IL; Chris (Tracy) Olson of Cumming, GA; Morgan Jindrich of Austin, TX; Josh (Michelle) Jindrich of Gresham, OR; Danielle Bostian of Stewartsville, NY; Damien Bostian of Long Valley, NJ, and many great grandchildren.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Hugh A. and Lillian; step-mother Lil Price; wife Mildred; son Bill and grandson Michael Olson.

He lived a long and wonderful life.

That time of year...Fall Open House

I love Minnesota in the fall. Leaves turn colors there, unlike Texas, where the choices are green or brown. Heck, it is still over 90F. How can I even be thinking about Fall? Well, I can because I just saw the blog post over at the Clay Coyote Gallery telling me it is that time of year, time for the Fall Open House. (Unfortunately, I am not going to get to go this year -- so won't you go for me?)

Ah, fall. I really miss the other seasons. Ian and I got in to this discussion recently (pre-coffee on the way in to work - so don't hold me accountable for accuracy). Anyways, he is a summer man, I am a four seasons kind of girl - makes you appreciate the rest of them. And my argument is you can always put more cloths on and stoke a fire. There comes a point in the Texas heat where you are just naked and there is nothing you can do about it because even the pools and lakes are 85F. My logic is sound.