and a Monday.  a work away from here day that dragged it's self on longer than i'd imagined it would.

but before i left

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i stitched two thread beads near the Burning Bush.

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and thickened an area of Pulse here and another thread bead.

and this morning, i looked and looked before i left for signs of that little bird.  there was this:

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but just this one.  and when i came home i searched.  i walked this acre a billion ways and no sign of any more.  hmmm.  and then, almost at dusk, i heard those three syllables but with somehow a lighter tone…and looking out the back (clean) windows, there were two on the dead Russian Olive.  was one smaller???? hard to say, really, but they were sitting together differently than the male and female do.  and THEN…mouth to mouth…beak to beak…feeding.  someone was being

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really???????or my imagination….and they fluttered off.  not long later, there, high on the protruding beam of the shed thing, two again.  and i stood there watching and YUP.  feeding.  SO though they are my least favorite bird, they are the birds that Live here.  that year after year Nest here.  and i thought, well, the one thing about them is that they are not at all shy.  they feel quite comfortable making their haphazard nests on that too small metal beam and they feel no compunction about shitting all over the goat feed.  So What!, they say.  and they Just Go.  and now we have a new one that made it through the night into this day to carry on the tradition.

 

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19 responses to “guess what?….day 11”

  1. Deb G Avatar

    I love this. I love that it is just a small piece of your life, and yet there is so much to it. It makes me very happy to think of those two doves sitting together.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    maybe a large part of this kind of thing is because it’s
    desert land. individual thing stand out. i remember
    growing up through my young adult years in the Midwest.
    there is such profusion there, plants/weeds/trees/birds that single things are never seen.
    here…there is ONE dove pair. ONE Thrasher pair wins out over ONE Meadowlark pair. and they are there…these
    individuals, everyday. to Live with.
    Whichever of this pair of doves it is that we have named RubberFoot, …only one has those orangypinkrubbery feet,
    that one has odd habits. whenever i am sitting outside with another person, like my granddaughter, RubberFoot comes to sit nearby. like s(he) is listening in. cocking his/her head this way and that, moving back and forth
    on the branch a little. listening. it’s odd. and when
    we say HEY! nosey!…it doesn’t fly off, just gets still
    for a little bit. like if it’s still, we will forget.

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I happen to love mourning doves Grace–no matter though, we all have our loves. I love the pigeons everyone hates, even though they pushed the doves out–but still, sometimes I hear the dove’s mournful Hoo hoo hoo and I know they’re still here. they mate for life for the most part…unlike pigeons who only stay together for awhile except in some cases. I love bird life in this cement city. the robin, the chickadees, even the bossy starlings with their complex calls. birds are fierce little things really. I admire that.
    I admire your beads and pulse before the too long day too, and I wish my windows were clean, but I’m glad you have some.
    So okay. everything’s okay. Now I’m gonna finish my today post and probably it won’t be up till tomorrow sometime. That’s okay too.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    I love you, Michelle. and yes. Birds ARE fierce little
    things. They ARE. something to think about.
    goodnight….

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    OMG I just found a whole bunch of unpublished comments awaiting approval….from you and others….I was missing them cause I’m not used to the moderation thing and forgot to look! As soon as I remember how to ditch CM I’m gonna do it.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    TaDaaaaa!!!!!!!
    i am off to my crazy dream world while you are wandering
    through comment moderation.
    i choose dreams even tho they are really really wierd.
    love again….

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  7. Nancy Avatar

    When we went to Joshua Tree, CA there were dozens of dove couples, nesting, perched on every porch beam on both sides of our room. Their calls were so loud…for so long…made sleep difficult! I can understand your feelings about them. At one point I had to get up and go look on the back patio, I couldn’t believe how loud they were!

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  8. roz Avatar
    roz

    it is a story of two
    two beads stitched ,two B’s in Burning Bush ,two birds in the russian olive tree, two people talking when your grandaughter visits , two number ones in day 11 and the two of us ..me listening to you recount your day ..ha!

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  9. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    FYI, I remember you asking about the story of the burning bush in Exodus. So here’s the abridged version. Moses wanders off the trail looking for a lost sheep and sees a bush “that burns but does not burn up.” God tells him to take off his shoes, he’s on holy ground and then introduces himself as the God of Abraham et al. He tells Moses that he’s sick and tired of the oppression of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt and that he’s gonna intervene..and Moses will do all the talking. Moses gulps and asks him to choose someone else please but God tells him he has his back. God describes what will happen and then Moses asks, “so when I tell all this to the Hebrews, they’re gonna ask ‘oh yeah, says who’ so who shall I say sent me?” God answers with a very cryptic–and much discussed–“I am that which I will be” and goes on to tell Moses how it will all shake out.
    My favorite part of the passage is when God first sees Moses and calls him by name. Moses answers “Here I am” which in Hebrew is the most beautiful “he’naynee.” Here I am. I am present…

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  10. jude Avatar

    live pair-ings.

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  11. nemo-ignorat Avatar

    in this abundance of green where I live (and it is still a far cry from Southern Britain for example where I’ve seen so many different shades of green, I never imagined existed) it is so hard to imagine your desert land. Life is such a wonder.

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  12. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    ah grace, those doves are growing on you just a smidgeon: perhaps you could build them a doocot xxx

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    Loud. they are LOUD. and they sit so close to the house being LOUD. but i am watching that. how they so much seem to just feel like this is THEIR home. and why not?
    why not? who says it’s more mine than theirs????????

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is beautifuul, beautiful twos, yes, beautiful 2s

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    OH!!!!!!thank you,THANK YOU.
    this was the one story from the bible that i always
    loved. the rest didn’t connect. this one did. how
    God would appear as a bush. a burning one. i remember exactly what that felt like, listening to it in Sunday School and i was totally fascinated and totally wanted this to happen for me. and totally believed that it COULD. i remember talking about the Burning Bush when i was in therapy with my oh so orthodox analyst. watching his eyebrows rise as i went on and on. and i guess the truth is that i still, after all this time, i still would oh so much want a Burning Bush. how great would that be. Finally. being TOLD exactly what to Do. oh sigh.
    AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL hEBREW…”HE’NAYNEE” here i am. i am present.
    i’d like to hear you say that word, phrase. i’d like to hear what it
    sounds
    like.
    oh, love and xoxoxo

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    so totally a wonder. totally.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are.
    aren’t they.
    i put out a water bowl for them tonight.
    what is a doocot?????? a scottish perch? little dove hut?

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  18. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    yes, a scottish dove house. In english it is dovecote. can you use the bird droppings when you dye stuff or something like that? In years gone by it was quite a status symbol and only the lordly folk were allowed to have one.

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