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an outside No Freeze apparatus for Goat water.  one in front, one in back.  this required that all the water lines under the house be dug up and reconfigured/replaced.

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almost finished. 

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  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Ahhhhhhhh, this is so right and by that I mean that I immediately thought of Bob Dylan’s’ song, the one with the lyrics, “the answer my friend is blowing in the wind…” now I know that this is luring crows but it seems to me that if SHE lures crows, uses the wind to signify her intent, then it stands that the possibilities for living a life of good intention exists…and I noticed what looks like a twig or branch holding this cloth and I smiled.

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  2. Valerianna Avatar

    Oh Grace.. this cloth SINGS to me!! And how GREAT to have no-freeze water… yipee.

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  3. patricia Avatar

    i cocked my head sideways and see mountain ranges–and the foot print of a crow coming out from the figure, on top of the raft. and looking again, the flag beacon becomes a butterfly. i love this cloth.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    oh the goodness the the graciousness of this!

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  5. Chris Linton Avatar

    Love the wind that is blowing through the cloth, love it. You put your self into this.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    wind is gracious, yes…

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    self in that it is i think/hope an expression of
    an archetype…woman/feminine fiercely in love with
    life?

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    when i was driving down from Magdalena yesterday, it was
    just at THAT time of day when all the layers of the
    earth were so visible and i saw then that my cloths are
    Honest in this way. i sew what i see. i do. and i
    was very very happy.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    the pipes…they were kind of pushed upon me. they ARE
    wonderful, just so so great and now the plumbing should
    last a “lifetime”. but again, as is that back fence,
    they were given. in a way i would have rather kept on
    the way i was, ify, but to use Cindy’s word, fiercely.
    but i need to accept the reality as it presents Itself.
    stop feeling i need to control things i guess?…
    it is a wonderful thing tho, that there is no longer
    any fear for the Goat water.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is. it’s a salt cedar twig. really, very long. an
    arch. since these cloths are intended for Other people,
    they need a way to Put them if they don’t pin on their
    curtains or stick stuff with tacks all over their walls.
    Hence…the twig. i know..i thought of you when i slid
    it in the little sleeve. LOVE,

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  11. kaite Avatar
    kaite

    Beautiful grace, strong fearless woman…

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  12. Nancy Avatar

    I love how she leans into the wind, or is it…trying to pull back from the force of it…Mmmm…
    Whatever it is, it is moving, soaring. Love this.

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  13. saskia Avatar

    oh I’m so glad the crows are back and her hair, I love the tiny strands of her hair!
    The whole piece is so Alive

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  14. Deb G Avatar

    That’s a world I could live in…or a story I want to think about more…beautiful.

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  15. Debra S Avatar

    Your work seems to flow from you, I’m loving every move you make on this piece, and I also love that you are showing us each step of the way. This piece, like so many of your works, really speaks to me. Very soulful. Let us know if it will be up for sale when finished. I would love to live with it in my home.

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  16. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Oh it’s so good that the ‘iffy’ is gone from the water issue. And this cloth–this is a real story cloth masterpiece Grace. What more can I say. You made my day today (even tho the post is past days).

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    moving into, pull back…both, Wind requires both

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    Great Wind here and i looked at my shadow on the ground
    yesterday and it is exactly what my hair was doing.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    Debra…when finished, because you asked directly, it’s
    yours. it will be $90 because that’s what i am needing
    to pay the goat guy from up the freeway to come and cut
    Barbara’s scur. a home that loves clotheslines would
    be good.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    Wind, the land, the crows…They are the masterpieces.

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  22. Debra Agrums Sposa Avatar

    I’m so thrilled Grace, thank you. I have one room in my home that I call my nest, it’s the room that I display all my favorite things, it’s the room that when I walk into envelops me and gives me a hug, my feel good place. That’s where I will hang this very special treasure you’ve created. Thank you for trusting me with it’s care. xoxox deb

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    Debra…this is great. one MORE ify gone. so this is
    the way it can go. something being seen as it is being
    made. the direct question asked. this is how i’ve
    done it with Jude and others. “Can I buy this?”.
    there is no other way for me, really. no little online
    shop. i would never have enough work for that. i am
    SLOW. and this life is Big with so much Unforseen.
    So…thank you for setting this in MOTION.
    Soon…xoxo to you

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  24. handstories Avatar

    i think she might fly off with the crows to their land!

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  25. wendy Avatar
    wendy

    Grace, this is so marvelous. Always with your work the vantage point is somewhere unexpected. Here I think it is a bird’s eye view, isn’t it? not on the same surface as the lure (and lurer, if that is a word) but up in the air with crows. Am I reading/seeing that right? So beautiful in every way Grace. Such a wonderful feeling – of being in the air with crows- to give your viewer.
    Thank you!

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    YES! yes you are!
    they sometimes float, some times Surge through the Wind Currents
    overhead, but i know they are aware of me.
    i am down here, calling to Them.

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  27. wendy Avatar
    wendy

    and looking again now (I had to rush away to shop-vacuum water off the basement floor….), I realize that the arrangement of the four crows leaves the viewer in exactly the right spot to be the fifth. You do this so effortlessly, so genuinely. How wonderful your work is Grace.

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  28. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Great, Grace – sure water and a cloth sold, wonderful!

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  29. Mo Crow Avatar

    aaaarrrrrkkkk! aaaaaarrrrrkkkk! aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrkkkkk! you fly crow woman extraordinaire with the wind in your hair!

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar

    these crows fly overhead here. i want them to
    come down

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  31. grace Forrest Avatar

    wendy…it’s kinda mindless, really. when i “try” it
    doesn’t work….thank you xoxo

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  32. grace Forrest Avatar

    life is good, yes?????

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  33. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh my hair. in real life, it looks pretty much
    scraggly.

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  34. Mo Crow Avatar

    Haven’t cut mine for 2 & 1/2 years now except for chopping 6 inches of scraggy split ends off the rat tail of my plait back at xmas! m hoping to have a long grey plait down to my feet (or at least my knees) by the time I’m 80!

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  35. grace Forrest Avatar

    i have really wierd hair. it doesn’t grow much at all.
    just stays the same, year after year. it’s shiney, like
    healthy, just doesn’t grow. except the “bangs” that
    i wish would “grow away” so i didn’t have bangs anymore,
    but them too. just long enough to get in my eyes too
    much so they get trimmed. and it’s really fine and stick straight. not an iota of “body”. oh well.

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