it's dark.  it's quiet out there for the first time in hours and hours.  how they have settled things i don't know.  and there is an urge to go look,  take the flashlight and look.  but there's no point.  there would be nothing i could do.  it's cold.  these days till Tuesday, according to accuweather are the coldest, then we begin the upswing.  Till Tuesday.  Cold.  And just before i came in, i see that Just Going has a bloody head.  this would be from being butted by Arctica, Buckwheat's sister.  the only doe with horns.  but it had congealed.  ok.  and  did the does agree that all could sleep inside on the straw, out of the wind?  i don't know.  and Buckwheat,  is he ok alone?  and Just Going again…Lucky Star is her mother.  she still nurses.  how will this go?  and the daughter.  what is She thinking tonight?  how does this world look inside her head right now?  and then…there's me.  who thinks too much.  who wants everyone and everything to be ok and once again, oh once again, learning the lesson of just going.  learning the lesson of not knowing anything at all, really, unless the choice would be to repeat each day in replication of the one before.  and i've never been able to do that. 

and yesterday, Kenny, the alfalfa grower who i get my feed from told me that it's "over".  He has sold all his alfalfa to 2 cattle ranchers from Texas.  semi trucks full.  that today he would load the final bales.  i buy 6 bales a week.  that means 100 bales till first cut in May.  he said he would count, and if he could, save me those 100 bales.  he would let me know.  no word yet.

i am restless.  needed to add this…..

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Mo's hope.

 

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31 responses to “Buckwheat’s Great and Horrible Day Part 2”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I’ve just checked in, read both great and horrible days and now picture you sitting there at 6:48PM–it’s 9:48 here–sitting? perhaps lying down in the dark, listening to the sounds outside and inside. I’ve not forgotten the dogs either. Above my head the weekend only noisy neighbors are moving furniture again, or something that sounds like that, and running back and forth through the rooms in high heels and boots–three of them I think-one big guy and two girls in three bedrooms as the rehab arranged it–letting their apartment door slam again and again. I wonder how violent the rest of this night will be. I wonder if there will be enough feed for all till Spring. I’m sending Love to all of us, and everyone else for that matter.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    “and everyone else for that matter”. yes.
    and in these moments, my bottom line always is….
    Would i change my life for any other? Who would i rather be?
    and the answer is always the same.
    nope.
    this is somehow good. even though.
    karma ripening.

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  3. handstories Avatar

    oh . . . my . . . blood, sex, drama, family . . . you’ve got it all going on there. waiting here, wondering if word will come about the alfalfa… keep warm.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    Wow that was one wild big good day Grace & have my fingers x-ed for that 100 bales to stay put!

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    reads like karma percolating too. Just woke from hazy sleep. The home front quiet but for cars passing in the streets below. One pigeon huddled on the window sill, a shadow, back lit by street light, which also throws a shaft splashing across the far wall on to the miniature prayer flag stick where my Mo’s feather thing also dangles ‘hope’.

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I’m back again—because noisy neighbors got to me again. I’m settling down with this–just found at you tube–Yo Yo Ma doing Bach Cello Suites-2 hours of heaven–
    http://youtu.be/KHzfD6XLK7Q
    Now–back to bed.

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  7. saskia Avatar

    …and on it goes, I do believe you’ll manage, although it doesn’t seem ‘easy’ (real life isn’t always, easy I mean)

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  8. jude Avatar

    i hope you slept well.

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  9. patricia Avatar

    do you have option with other types of grass? and do you ever supplement with grains?

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  10. Deb G Avatar

    Sending you a hug…

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  11. julie Avatar

    Wandering Daughters are the San Andreas Fault of Motherhood…i

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  12. KAMFreeman Avatar

    Amazing, so much in one day..perhaps the goats today will be still..in these days of cold time by the fire to connect with your fabric and threads. hopefully alfalfa will be there for you.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    Mo’s hope is everywhere. How great is that.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s late Sunday and no, no word. my guess is it it
    were good, he would have called. i’ll call him tomorrow.
    the water in the dogs/cat bowl INSIDE the house froze
    last night. this was supposed to be the year that i
    finally gave in and did some serious weatherizing. as
    Jude would say, Ha.
    Wednesday it’s supposed to let us go. days in mid 50’s
    nights only 20’s. Balmy.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i could make it easy i guess. it’s not like i live how
    i do at gun point.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    there is maybe oat hay down south of here. not as high
    protein as alfalfa and a lot of waste in how they eat it
    but would keep them alive. thing is, as the drought
    goes on, more and more, Texas is relying on New Mex for
    their cattle. but reality is, as drought goes on, the
    growing here will change too. a lot to think about.
    and yes…not grains, but pellet feed. but it’s more
    expensive than alfalfa and the goats compete harder and
    rougher for it in the feed tubs.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh, thank you. i am thinking that you are good at
    hugging. very firm and warm. with a good smile.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    well…i sure was one myself.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. today was quiet. my daughter always said “3 days
    and they think about it as forever”. so today is the
    second. tomorrow they will be settled in to all the new
    things.
    and the cloth…the Luring Crows. yes. a LOT of looking
    a little stitch, a click for a pic..next post.

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  21. yvette Avatar

    the solution is on it’ way
    always
    i strongly believe in that
    said she who is surrrounded by 3dogs in bed
    cosy and warm
    come and feel comforte…in the thought as strong as in thf real deal..

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  22. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    karma ripening, now this is an amazing expression

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  23. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    I’m doing an alfalfa dance xox

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  24. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Oh Grace, what a day! This is so REAL, the real life, hard and physical and you are thriving, how wonderful. I don’t like to think of that cold inside but if you slept well, you were obviously warm in your bed which is very good. The only thing I remember from a similar life is how hard it was sometimes to step out of bed on to the bare floors, brrrrr! I love love love your faces. Hugs

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    yvette…the real deal. you
    are the
    real
    deal
    and i believe in
    you.
    so.
    ok. the solution is on it’s way. ok.

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am warm in bed.
    i come out…early….hours before light
    to be sure the water is still running. for them.
    it’s worth it.

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s a beautiful thought, isn’t it? like when life is
    coming fast and clear and you can’t mistake it for
    anything else but what you need to know?????
    mine is about Love. all the kinds of love. every time
    i think i’ve had enough, it comes again, a different way.

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  28. linda Avatar

    margaret always called it “a big fat day” sounds like it was.
    i have a homeless man here that walks by our house every day. he sleeps in the park across from us. he walks by the hospital that i work every day. i think he is going to the mission for food. tonight it will be 27.. i worry about him every night when i get in bed.
    margaret also said that we come here to grow a soul. i think these things are part of all this.
    i think of you tonight and hope you and all are warm.
    as you can tell, i miss margaret but she gave me so much.

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  29. kaite Avatar
    kaite

    I do so hope you can get your lucerne/alfalfa….it’s all very hard. I had to give up, too hard for me and in the end i’ve done the right thing…..the universe has rolled on and she is well and happy.

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