today was the every 3 to 4 month Necessities Run to the Reservation and Albuquerque for the Old Cowboy.  to the reservation for his chewing tobacco and to Albuquerque to the CostCo for his peanut butter, blank DVD's, jugs of honey, dog food, paper towel and toilet paper.  he can't imagine himself running out of any single one of these things.  so i went.  it's pretty much close to a 200 mile round trip.  this is ordinarily when i might stock up on stitching threads.  and that i didn't want to today was a sign of something.  i just wanted to come home.  but while at CostCo (for those not in this country, a big outlet for all manner of stuff for less) i got a new hose

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it's a kind of odd color.  i really didn't like it.  i like sand colored ones.  but they don't have choices.  just cheaper.  but looking at it at home, it looks some like a bull snake.  it's 100 ft long.

and while rearranging the hose system, on a very long lasting oh so loving warm evening, i noticed that things have gotten even more beautiful over the winter

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Julian's world, under the Apricot tree

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the rock that Marti and her husband brought when they visited.  Wind has reconfigured it.

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an apricot pit that somehow has been made into a perfect small cup or bowl.  How?

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the dye pots wait

and waiting to pick up the Goat hay, i dug up 2 clumps of Giant Blue Stem.  Clump grass.  the grass that fed the herds of buffalo that once roamed this continent.  004f
i put this one in near the Raft

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this one goes out in the Island out back.  "pray" for them that they "take".

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the Apricot is beginning to bloom.

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Native currant leafing

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horseradish multiplying

and other than to feed, i didn't get any time to spend with the Goats.  as i was planting the Blue Stem they did what they sometimes do that just makes me crazy with love.  they All rang their little bells than hang on the fences.  they do this with their lips…very lightly, mouthing the bells.  they like the sound.  but for me, it is an unexplicably tender and loving thing and it's why i never want to spend more time in Albuquerque.  Why i just want to come home.

 

 

 

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30 responses to “Day 12 and not a single stitch, not one. nada.”

  1. suzanna Avatar

    A welcome home we missed you song….

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    sending make good strong roots and shoots prayers for your Giant Blue Stem grass, love seeing your place springing to the tune of gentle goat bellings as we go into the long light of autumn here in the Land Down Under.

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    What a perfect day is told here–the efforts, intentions, seeings and saying–just golden. Your world is sprouting, and your love is showing.

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  4. saskia Avatar

    things HAVE gotten more beautiful over winter; and Spring’s promise revealing itself in buds and unfolding leaves, beautiful
    you seem to take care of quite a few people Grace, not to mention all those animals
    as you know, I enjoy reading about what you get up to, brings us closer together.

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  5. yvette Avatar

    your goat words soften and heal my wounded heart today, a day to be remember my gone loveone

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    But you did stitch grace, not with needle and thread but with images and words, you stitched a tapestry of home.

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  7. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    this is like a TED talk, only better

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  8. patricia Avatar

    oh the memory that’s arising, those soft, tender prehensile lips. those thick velvety, sensitive nuzzling lips. i haven’t forgotten, but thank you for bringing the memory to the fore.

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  9. jude Avatar

    a beautiful post Grace….

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  10. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    Grace, my feet tingle with your words and pictures. . .like I’m walking there with you.

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  11. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    i wonder if a little animal has gnawed the apricot stone into that cup? are there tooth-marks? How wonderful to be serenaded in such a manner. I love hearing about and seeing photos of your world, thank you grace x

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    yvette, i will tell them this afternoon about your heart
    and ask them to make their sounds for you and your
    love

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  13. Vicky Avatar

    i was wondering if a bird might have pecked at the apricot pit…
    i need the sweet sound of bells being mouthed by goats…
    i have one granddaughter who would listen quietly with me, and another who would be forever making other noise…my brain is being tested these days by this ‘challenged’ child of ours, but not my love…no never that.

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  14. Valerianna Avatar

    I can hear the sweet bells… and I love the little pit-bowl, little people sized.
    And I know what you mean… today, after my long commute, my long teaching day, my long HOME commute, it was still light out. So Pasha and I went out for a small walk. Such a stark contrast to where I had been – all that stimulus, noise, busstle, ALL of that – gone… replaced by rustling hemlock boughs, sounds of the far off rushing river, raven calling from a tree right near, Pasha’s small feet plunking on ground, bubbles fizzing in mud.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i really don’t know what it means to them. i just DO
    know that they find themselves doing it. and on occasion
    there is that ringing from all 3 pens during the same
    time. here, there, there, here there here
    and the does seem to do it more for their own interest. especially the young ones, the Junior does from last summer. they just stand there and repeat the gesture. sometimes for a long time. Tenzen always looks in my direction during his bell ringing. he will ring and stand, staring. today i am very in love with Tenzen. if he were the only buck, he would get so much attention. but he’s not.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    i have not adjusted to that thinking yet…about how
    it is opposite

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. less people than before. there Were a Lot not all
    that long ago.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    Marti…and all the time in there, i thought…
    what will it be like when Marti’s here??????????????????
    How i would come in really early in the morning and
    we would do whatever….what that will be
    like…….

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    Julie…what a thing to say. a TED talk. and my head
    tilts sideways…??? a TED talk? to me it seems
    so not like a TED talk….interesting….

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is so good to me that you hold this memory, this
    knowing. very very good.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    well…if you say so

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    i wish everyone could walk here with me. then they would
    know it in it’s reality

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    no…no tooth marks. i think just a very efficient
    insect. and a very artistic one.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    Hey Vick..oh Blessed is She who cares for the little ones.
    i have such huge respect for it, and i always say that,
    but i do. i could not do it. OR, i could i guess, but
    with so little grace.
    and no. the love is what saves us all.

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is beautiful. Thank you so much. just for this little glimpse, you and Pasha. cat feet on earth. and
    Pasha…so deeply enmeshed with your human self/world. and fizzing mud. oh Jeez.
    THANK YOU for this picture. i love it for a lot of reasons.

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  26. magnolia Avatar

    magical. enjoyed everything.
    adore the goat bells.

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  27. Nancy Avatar

    Love Julian’s world…and the rest too.

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  28. grace Forrest Avatar

    HEY!…i just got back from Your world…wow. a lot
    to see there. i will be back to spend some TIME.
    and Thank You for coming here

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  29. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. Julian’s world. i wonder what he’ll think when
    he comes back and sees it all still there.

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