Pottery is addicting, too.

[oloriel]

Lookee, the ugly elf (@ladyelleth: Ugly ugly ugly! Sucks sucks sucks! ;)) got a companion! No, not a Companion. Shut up, Inara.
Vaguely humanoid-shaped lump of clay...
... and side view

Pottery is not only addicting but also very meditative. You get the most random thoughts. Today I randomly remembered how back in the day when I was in grade two or so, it had snowed. And I was really happy because I loved snow, and was accordingly gleeful.
Said one teacher: "Oh, but don't you feel sad for all the people who have to go by car in this weather? Like your parents! Surely they aren't happy about the snow!"
People kept saying stuff like that.

Another year, we had the first snow, and when we came to school, one little girl was running around with an umbrella saying "Sauwetter" (roughly translated: "crappy weather").
Now my brother and I used to be rather sensitive about how things might feel (I'm serious - I always felt bad about having to put something back on a shelf for fear that the poor thing would feel unloved and neglected!), and we muttered that hopefully the lovely snow wouldn't go away because it felt hurt by the "Sauwetter" umbrella.

All in all: Great job, people! Teach the children to be discontent about the weather at an early age! A good German always has to complain about the weather. Teach'em while they're young!

Actually, this may not be quite so random. We're having a mellow ~20°C here these days, which if you ask me is the best kind of weather you can have. But - now even I run around in long pants and long-sleeved pullovers without suffering over much in 20° warm weather. I never could have done that in the "olden days". Back then, I used to feel too hot very easily - being a child of the Bergisches Land will do that to you, I suppose - and was comfortable even in fairly cold weather because of what my mom used to call my "internal oven". And now - I run around in jeans and a pullover in temperatures that would've had me in shorts and t-shirts not too long ago. These dreadfully hot summer days have, apparently, spoiled me.

Not as badly as many other people, though, apparently. Because, as I said, we have a mellow ~20°C, and people are - get this - complaining about the cold. The cold! *cries*

Um. Yes. Shutting up now.

Comments

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I used to be a curiously sentimental child too! Whenever we went to restaurants, I would get terribly upset if I couldn't finish all the food on the plate, if I left a single potato, as it would "get lonely". I got around this by cutting it in half so the two halves could keep each other company...

Yeah...

So I totally understand what you mean!

[dame_grise]

I shoud be cheerier today, but I'm not. At least you're getting to think about a few things. You've seemed a bit stressed lately.

[flower-star.livejournal.com]

Fortunately nobody ever told me to be unhappy about snow or rain when I was small, so I still can enjoy it.
I noticed, too, that I'm wearing much warmer clothes than usual in the fall. I guess it is because the temperatures went down so rapidly after the extreme heat, the body didn't have time to adjust itself.

I like your pottery elves, by the way. You really should find a way of getting them burnt (maybe there are pottery courses at your local VHS? Those often allow people to burn their stuff in their furnace when you ask nicely).

[spacesailor.livejournal.com]

Ich mag das 20°C warme Wetter und den Regen und den Wind. Ich hab Herbstwetter fast schon immer lieber gemocht als Sonnenschein. Bei mir ist's eher umgekehrt: mir war früher schneller kalt als heute.

[naurring.livejournal.com]

You're right. Your pottery looks terrible. Simply disgusting. I had to look away immedeatly because I could not even stand to look at it.

I guess it has advantages to live on a pile of clay. Makes pottery a very cheap hobby.

I really like the temperatures at the moment. Nice and cool, with the occasional rain. No comparison to this killer summer. I simply don't understand all those people who run around with three layer of thick pullovers, scarves and a wintercoat. One could think the next ice age just began. It's a bit like when people open their umbrellas just because they were hit by one single drop of water and keep having it open for hours, even though it's not even raining. Fascinating behaviour, in some way.

Nice cats by the way. Really cute.

(The pottery is great!)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Ah, but the hassle of scraping the mould of the walls rather undoes the advantages.

Fascinating and kind of disturbing, isn't it?

Aren't they? They were born under my desk in March. I didn't have anything to do with it, though, aside from holding Shakira's (the mother, and I didn't pick the name!) hand/paw and telling her that she was doing great...