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moustery glaze!

updated thu 2 jun 11

 

pdp1 on wed 1 jun 11


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Moore"

> Here's one I don't think has ever been discussed on ClayArt. I recently
> decided to siphon off the excess water from my mystery glaze collection,
> stir it up and dip a test tile. As I was stirring it with my electric
> drill
> mixer I noticed a terrible smell. Next step, sieving. As I cranked my
> Talisman sieve I noticed some strings of matter. Without being graphic, =
I
> eventually figured out that these weren't strings from my mop, but that a
> mouse had met his maker in my mystery glaze bucket. Now here's the real
> question...nowhere in this mess did I see any bones. Where did they go?
>
> Julie
> Dirty Bird Pottery


Hi Julie,


On what evidence did you figure out that the 'strings' or whatever else was
from a Mouse which had gotten in to the Glaze?

Was there Furr? Or..?

What said "Mouse'' to you with this?


Phil
Lv

Linda Stauffer on wed 1 jun 11


I had the same thing happen to me! The smell was awful! The mouse was float=
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ng, maggots and all. I carefully scooped out the mouse and used the glaze. =
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also had a mouse in my water bucket next to the wheel. In reached into the=
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ucket feeling for my sponge and found one with a tail! I dropped the mouse =
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nd screamed. No one believed me until I poured out the water. My new studio=
i=3D
s mouse proof, but I still keep a lid on my water bucket.

Linda P. Stauffer


On May 31, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Julie Moore =
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rote:

> Here's one I don't think has ever been discussed on ClayArt. I recently
> decided to siphon off the excess water from my mystery glaze collection,
> stir it up and dip a test tile. As I was stirring it with my electric dr=
i=3D
ll
> mixer I noticed a terrible smell. Next step, sieving. As I cranked my
> Talisman sieve I noticed some strings of matter. Without being graphic, =
I=3D

> eventually figured out that these weren't strings from my mop, but that a
> mouse had met his maker in my mystery glaze bucket. Now here's the real
> question...nowhere in this mess did I see any bones. Where did they go?
>=3D20
> Julie
> Dirty Bird Pottery