When it comes to raffles and the like I have, traditionally, been
the most unlucky guy in the universe -- but something may be
changing.

A couple of years ago, I won my FIRST-ever raffle at the Big Show
in New Orleans -- a 6-foot-tall, skinny bald cypress (I may have
been the only bidder ;-). Then, Jackie's bid for a very nice
mame pot turned out to be a winner.

Then, earlier this year, I put _a_ raffle ticket into a full
bucket of tickets for a Ben Oki-styled shohin juniper, and won
that. Today, I put 5 tickets into a bid for a couple of small
pots, and won.

Surely the sky is going to fall at any moment now. ;-)

Anyway, these -- an unglazed 6-inch x 3 inch hexagon pot and an
unglazed 4-inch by 2-inch hexagon -- already have occupants
chosen for them. I don't know who donated them to the raffle,
but, oddly, both had wire-mesh screens GLUED onto the outside
bottoms. I'm about to send some time (and a gallon of acetone,
or something) to un-glue them, especially the smaller pot, which
is a very nice pot. There's a chop on the bottom, but I can't
make it out through the screen. There's also a "2" pressed into
the bottom, near the edge.

They're probably both Chinese, but are better workmanship than
most Chinese pots I've seen.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Let us spend
one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the
track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the
rails. -- Henry David Thoreau

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