Friday thing : ash tray
Not for ash, but from ash #poetic
Speaking [two weeks ago]1 of Mt. St. Helens, today I’m featuring my commemorative ash tray. It’s actually a Volcanic Ash Glass Dish, made in 1980 at Portland’s Bullseye Glass Company after the winds shifted and sent the mountain’s debris southward.
I got mine just a few years ago from Portland Art Museum when, as they began preparing for their Volcano! exhibit, Bullseye found a bunch of leftover inventory and made a deal to sell them through the museum gift shop2 for $19.80 (get it?). Though I used my PAM member discount and ruined the fun total.
I bought one for each of my kids, too, who might actually use it for something like ashes…?3 Mine sits on the shelf next to my exercise bike, where it dutifully holds lip balm and a lens cloth in its sculpted foothills. For when I have a chapping or eyeglass emergency while pretend-riding in my Room of Requirement.
Hi, sorry about the unannounced break. I thought I’d be more on top of things but instead I focused on helping my son & daughter-in-law move into their new house/trying to keep from weeping all weekend with Sunrise, Sunset on repeat in my brain. Anyway, here I am!
The museum is no longer selling the dishes (see the Bullseye link to purchase) but I included their store link because they do have a lot of pretty cool stuff + shopping there supports art. #CapitalistJustification
They’re adults, it’s legal, and our still-smoking mountain would probably be honored.
OF COURSE I love a good pun, and this one's smokin'.
We were living in Thermopolis, WY when the volcano erupted and I remember people scraping ash off their cars.
I hope your kids deploy their souvenirs in some useful way as you did. It brings me joy to see my kids using special things I've bought them. Congrats on the kid/wife/new digs--big step in life!