Smoke

can't get the damn pitch off.

has pitch on his hands

says, Tomorrow is photo day. I love the new leaves.

washed his shorts today, ready for work.

workshop today after lunch, shohin literati. Cutting material to produce them.

Still havn't had my ass kissed yet?

Oh I am sorry--I was somehow corn-fused. Hello Californian. Hope you are well.

I see you are listed as from CA but I thought you were from MA?

Why don't you create your own blog? That way people like myself could learn.

Thanks. Couldn't delete this, so edited it.

Look forward to your future posts.

Hey Al,
I have about fifteen Golden Statements from the mid-ninties (of course, they're old and Black and white). Do you know anyone that collects them or could use them? I would much rather donate them to someone than to toss them out. Thanks, Jeff AKA Bonsai Barry.

Al, please email me at daizamaker@volcano.net, I have some questions for you.

Al ,
Speeking of Cal junies.....my " source " changed jobs and is really snowed under right now. Do you know of any private collectors who have excess trees they may be willing to sell cheep. I can't afford the retail dealers prices.
Dwight

Al, need some soil advice…The hot weather here in Sacramento is increasing year by year and my soil recipe is starting to dry out to fast…I’ve been using John Nakas mix and in the past it has served me well, now I’m a little concerned…Watering twice and sometimes three times a day…Knowing your location and the temperatures you have; what do you recommend…General all around mix for finished deciduous trees.

Doc

Saw a post regarding an article on developing Trident Shohin. Is that still online somewhere?

Hello A memeber said you were very good woth wisteria. I have some start i want to begin to train. And i have a nice established piece that a friend is removing form the landscape. I figure it will be easy to collect especially since it sits in a concrete box essentially. I would like any direction you could give me in the way of pruning to promote the racemes to bloom thicker as well as hwo to prune to maintain a tree like form. My stock is most definatly in the developement stage but i was not sure as to what to do on the way. I have seen some beautiful work. And i want my long wait to pay off.

Hey Al,

I wasn't able to make it to the Fresno sale in December but if you have any of your killer tridents that you would consider parting with let me know. I'll be at the BIB on Sayurday.

Jeff

Hi Al, I am looking for the a good place to find Diagrams of forest plantings...i found one in Bonsai Techniques....got any other good sources.

Probably this will not help you much because I do not know any potters (except Korin)...but you posted a picture on July 23, 6:44 PM with a chop the one looks like it reads 万光 (First character may be wrong..

This could read Manki or Banki or even Banmitsu (But that does not sound right).

So maybe with your knowledge of potmakers you can pinpoint. Those chops in Reisho although not impossible, I just don't have time to try to look them up...

The hikari　光 kanji is common in boys name and is most often read Mitsu. BTW my boy's name is 喜光 Mickey...And the Shiyakusho or in this case Kuyakusho was definitely not guessing that reading, but it was accepted on the Kouseki Touhon as an acceptable reading for the name.

Al:

I am sending this message in private. You used the word 下草 Shitakusa in a previous post. You stated that it should be pronounced as (sheeet-ska). This sounded incorrect based upon my understanding of Japanese. This word would be pronounced the same as Asakusa Shrine and Amakusa (a region in Japan near Nagasaki). Both of these words use the same character for Kusa.

The correct pronunciation is (She ta and ksa). The vowel of the e is almost like i as in icky and when Japanese say kusa, (the word for weed or other ground plants), they say it so quickly that it makes a ksa sound and the u is not pronounced strongly at all.

I am writing this privately so that it may be corrected without anyone having to feel attacked or embarrassed.

Jonathan Maples