You should be on network tv.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thanks

So I've been told that its pottery sherds and glass shards but I'm no potter. I must say, it's a treat to see so many beautiful pots in one video! I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of corrugated pots. I didn't expect there to be so many.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Yes you have been told correctly, still I think it is interesting how many people use one term or the other. It's like "soda" vs "pop". There are a lot of people making corrugated pots, it seems to be addicting, once they start they can't seem to stop. I am afraid to start because I don't want to get sucked in.

Thanks for taking me along with you on your journey, Andy!

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Sherd, shard... by the time I'm done with a piece of pottery it's more likely in shreds! Great video, great Kiln Conference, and I can't wait until next year!

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Dave, it was fun, glad you could make it out again this year.

4:25 I am loving Waynes cap! 🍊⚖ Thank you for taking us on your adventure to the Southwest Kiln Conference, Andy! 🏺🐭

I really enjoy your videos Andy. It was through you, I learned not to stress so much about food safe pottery. I often glaze my pottery leaving some of it exposed, like my spoon handles. After all, before food safe pottery was even around, pottery was eaten off of for millennia and somehow people survived! I learn something new from you with every video. Thank you.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

You are welcome, I am glad you are learning from them too.

I want to get into this stuff. My dad is a great potter and artist. He uses the modern methods, but this is right up MY alley of interest and I believe my dad and I will connect through this. Thank you Andy Ward. You're the coolest!!!🎉

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Glad to help, I hope you and your dad enjoy it.

@markgibsons_SWpottery

7 ай бұрын

My son and I are closer than ever when we are either working on pottery or looking for clay... Wonderful intent!

Marvellous highly enjoyable. I smiled, laughed and even cried. I am inspired. Many thanks.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@millenials_best

7 ай бұрын

Lol I cried too. We're just nerds with hearts of gold

I like that the interviewees have different answers.

Andy, my brother had a couple mice get into his camper. He put out sticky pads to catch them. He caight 2 pigmy rattlesnakes instead. They followed the mice in. Just thought i would mention that. He sold the camper.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Holy cow! Scary stuff. I once had a rattlesnake in the kitchen of my house, so I have some experience with that sort of thing.

@BeckumOutdoors

7 ай бұрын

@@AncientPottery I had a dream once, a very large canebrake rattlesnake was laying parallel to me in my bed. He was up against my body stretched out. I woke up in a sweat and jumping around trying to get out of my bed. Man it seemed real. Glad it was a bad dream.

@GrannyGooseOnYouTube

7 ай бұрын

​@BeckumOutdoors Sigmund Freud would have a field day with that dream! LOL, sleep well!

Great video Andy. I suggest you develop a mouse motif for your next piece.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Oh that is a good idea, or maybe a mouse effigy pot

Thanks for the video Andy. It would be really interesting to have an interview with the person running the kiln, especially as she had different methods like leaving the pots to heat for so long. It must be quite a task to fire so many different types of pottery, and to have other people's precious work in your hands!

Such a fun video to watch! Looked like it was quite the adventure, and a lot of fun, even with your hitch hiking friend! What a big turn out too for the event, wow!

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Maybe you can make it next year. Thanks Will

@willorocks

7 ай бұрын

@@AncientPottery I sure hope so!!!

Great video...will enjoy again and again.....thanks

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, too bad you couldn't make it.

@bigbranch1

7 ай бұрын

Age is moving in on me pretty good....mega drought here ....burn ban in effect for months...back log to fire...best.@@AncientPottery

Excellent video. Very educational and relaxing. Thanks for taking us with you

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Yet another amazing video! Wish i was there but i live in The Netherlands

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

You will just have to live vicariously through my videos until I can arrange a European workshop. Thanks for watching.

You can use a trail camera with peanut butter bait to see if the mouse is still there. We usually set at least one up when we go camping, we get a lot of wildlife around our pitfiring site after dark.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Good idea, my wife did see him one night while it was rather dark and we were reading.

Andy, I have never enjoyed one of your videos more! I could fill a whole page with the comments I came up with while watching. And the mouse sure was a fun addition to the whole Adventure Tale. Tail? Acoma has long been my absolute favorite in Southwestern pottery. I did not know that the Pueblo was still in use. How awesome is that? Anyway, can't tell you how much I enjoyed this video, Andy!! It is my dream to one day join you all at the Kiln Conference.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for that Granny! I make these videos with people like you in mind so that means a lot to me. I hope to see you at the conference some day.

Wow! Those are some gorgeous pots!

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

I think so too!

Such a great video, Andy. Thank you for sharing this experience. I have to say that I got a little teary eyed seeing all of those gorgeous pots warming by the trench kiln. They turned out spectacularly! 🥲 The three question survey was a nice addition, too. One of your very best Southwest Kiln Conference videos yet! Good luck with the mouse. I hope you can catch it humanely and release it somewhere “out there.” I look forward to seeing how that puki turns out with the different colors of clay. :D

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thanks.

Those are huge fires! Wow!

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Definitely

Lovely results of your pit firing.

Hee hee, so funny. That was a truly great video. It had it all; adventure, comedy, drama, mystery, suspense... and the mess from the mouse could even count as horror.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Nom, glad you enjoyed it.

Maybe a mouse decorated pot with some of the clays you collected on your trip - another faux-hokam pot if you will :)

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Good idea, stay tuned for the mouse pot

😂😂 Andy you crazy guy

Haven't watched it yet but the title is funny 😂

My favorite it Mesa Verde Black-on-white.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Some of the finest to be sure.

A very interesting and enjoyable video. Thanks

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

I have been wondering what I could make an organic paint out of up here on the prairies of Canada, then watching this video I found my answer, Tansy! It is classed as a noxious weed up here and you can pull as much as you like.

Eeek I hate those meeces to pieces! Great report Andy

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I’ve always wondered how this was done. Thanks for the video!

Great video! Looks like that fence lake clay is the exact clay we have gotten from that area! Its lovely stuff! Really enjoyed the adventure, and I tape sunflower seeds to mousetraps and leave a little loose sunflower seeds just laying around the trap then, by the time they get to the trap they are comfortable grabbing one more seed!

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the mouse trapping tip. That's a pretty cool spot for clay collecting, I would like to camp out there some time and do some more exploring around. There is a TON of clay around there.

@markgibsons_SWpottery

7 ай бұрын

@@AncientPottery Datil, Pietown, and zuni all have similar deposits of clay. Holler at us when your on your way out here next time and we will show you what we know,.. from Zuni NM to San Mateo NM is my favorite stretch... rich!

@markgibsons_SWpottery

7 ай бұрын

@@AncientPottery do you ever get complaints from cultural appropriation activists? Maybe this question should cost money, but how do you deal with it?, if so..

It seems that is varved clay that you collected at the end: the thin layers correspond to seasonal deposition, like when the snow melted in the summer on the mountains or something. Each varve may correspond to one year deposition. We've got that a lot in Scandinavia due to the seasonality, everything is frozen in winter so there is no deposition and we can even count back the years sometimes and date it year to year like with trees. But it can also come from seasonality between a dry and a wet season if the climate was milder when it was deposited, perhaps a long time ago.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

That's interesting. I don't remember ever seeing clay in this form before.

I enjoyed the video of the firing

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thanks

Good video, I wish I could have been there. Definitely sherd, definitely Sikyatki, definitely use mineral instead of organic.

I’m saving used coffee grounds ; I’ve heard they’re a good rodent repellent. You might want to try peppermint oil spray too. Good video, thanks for posting it.👍🏼

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Oh, I hadn't heard that one. Aside benefit, they smell good. Thanks

👍

a bit of misery, offers up some of the best stories... camping seems to provide this misery... great video. =D

My wife and I have always wanted to try ceramics but have shied away due to the cost of a kiln and wheel. Thanks for inspiring us and showing that we don't really need these things to start out! I was wondering if it's possible to glaze in a campfire or if a kiln is required for this? Cheers!

Refiring your sheep pot? Will you have to treat it differently than unfired pottery to avoid shattering? A more gradual heating, for example?

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

No, I tend to treat it the same, but you may be right, it may be more fragile towards thermal shock after it is fired.

For field mice (vs house mice) bait the traps with ketchup not peanut butter.

Is this year's registration for the conference open yet?

@AncientPottery

19 күн бұрын

Not yet, I am waiting to hear details. You can check in the website at www.swkiln.com

Mice are cute. They're also unsanitary. Pooping and peeing as they go. They also like to sample everything rather than only eating one thing. Wouldn't mind them so much if they relieved themself in one place and only ate one thing. I have live catch and release traps. Let the little critters go far away.

Do you where and when the next conference will be?

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

I am not sure if the date has been set but it will be held at Crow Canyon near Cortez, Colorado

@candelariaatalaya5709

7 ай бұрын

@AncientPottery I wanted it to go this year, but I couldn't. I work full-time, and it was not possible. I will plan ahead for the 2024 to be there and enjoy all the goodness from the experts.

@candelariaatalaya5709

7 ай бұрын

@@AncientPottery thank you

Maybe the mouse will be with you on your next trip, it might be time to give it a name.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

I am taking the camper to a workshop I am teaching very soon. He had better have moved out by then because that trailer isn't big enough for the two of us.

I know you say sheep but I don’t know I’m feeling winner dog.😅

The English say "shard". I've never, ever heard anyone in my home UK say "sherd". To us that's an Americanism.

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Ha, that's great to know, thanks for the info.

Are you sure it was a mouse, what kind of mouse was it? The animal you have video of on a bathroom counter doesn’t look like what I associate a mouse looking like, is it a different variety of mouse that is native to the southwest?

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

The mouse on the counter is just stock video, I would have been very fortunate to have captured video of the mouse strolling around in my kitchen.

try a slimjim this is a trick a professional exterminator told me

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, I'll try it

Is no one going to talk about how he accidentally doxxed himself?

@AncientPottery

7 ай бұрын

Oh wow, I live in Tucson, come over and visit me

@markgibsons_SWpottery

7 ай бұрын

@@AncientPottery we are going to go visit you as soon as we get all of our ducks in a row.... We want to drink cacao with you, straight from our pottery mugs, and tell stories about the desert southwest!!! seriously though... I live for this stuff