Oregon daily life with OPB

On Caprial and John's kitchen show today, fresh cane berries were the subject food. They went U-Picking here in the Willamette Valley (Hillsboro, in their case) for their berries. This coming week, the boys and I are going U-Picking at a local farm that grows strawberries and cherries. It should be absolutely delicious, and I'm looking forward to the time-honored U-Picking tradition of eating more than I put into the bucket.

I signed up for a wheel-throwing pottery class. It should be pretty hilarious - I wonder how terrible I'm going to be at it? It seems like so much fun, but since I've never tried it, I really wouldn't know. I figure if I can manage a simple bowl by the end of the course, I'll have succeeded.

I wonder who originally came up with the pottery wheel? It's obviously very old - I wonder if American cultures didn't develop the pottery wheel since they didn't develop the actual wheel either?

Pottery pitcher from ancient Cyprus