it really is.  72 days.  72.  and What?  to "show for it"?????, i am thinking.  but anyway….
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so i drove today two towns away to pick up this milking stantion.  FINALLY.  i had called this guy around Christmas.  Yes.  he could build me one.  OK.  we agree.  and since then, about every few weeks or so, i'd call…"how's it going?"  and well, "any day now".  Today, FINALLY, he called and i could pick it up. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and i GO.  and yes.  a good strong practical stantion.  Plenty of room for a goat and even a person, sitting on the edge.  Metal and strong, for a buck.  and i visited with him for almost 2 hours.  he and his wife are Goat People that my daughter had connections with.  and visiting that 2 hours, i understood how it took this long.  they have maybe 130 something goats, he thinks.  they have chickens, turkeys.  they have llamas and alpacas.  some sheep.  he spends 6 hrs a day milking and storing the milk.  they have a grandson and his wife and child living with them recently.  they have a daughterinlaw who died from cancer.  they have…they have…they have.

and i listened and i looked.  and i came away with this stantion, all new and strong and painted green and understood a little more about Life.  so, O K and good.

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and i spent some time looking at all this STUFF out there.  in the Albatross as i am fond of calling it.  in the what i guess is most a Pole barn.  where 3/4 is partitioned off for the Goats bedrooms…2 of them…seperated, and one not being used at all in the moment because of Buckwheat being moved in to that end  but where the Maternity Unit will be in a few weeks….Oh Jeez.  do i get RID of a lot of this stuff?  i need the SPACE.  eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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and then.

Then……..there is this.  and last night i dreamed.  i won't tell the details but it was about the usual confusion of things and people and creatures, but………………….THE DALAI LAMA was there.  and there FOR me.  and then Alz B came into that scene and some small spotted creature…animal type and as always, the children, the babies and in the dream, as usual, i was just trying to figure it all out.

 

 

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25 responses to “72. Day 72. that’s a Lot of Days, thinking in terms of Minka’s comment”

  1. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    What a beautiful evening you have there. Here it got up to87 very unusual for this early in may. We had our trip to the hardware store for some copper tubing and some stuff for the garden and there was a table outside for children to make things for their mom. A dad had biked over with a trailor for the child to ride in and it was sweet to see the gentle way the dad was with the child. So sweet. And I got some purple fuchsias. And it was a good day.

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  2. Minka Avatar

    O dear. Which comment? Hope it was not something troubling

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    YAY FOR THE STATION–STURDY AND FINE–YAY FOR THE LIVES OF OTHERS–YAY FOR THE BLESSED AND BEAUTIFUL NIGHT AND IT’S DREAMS OF THIS AND THAT AND ALL AND ESPECIALLY YAY FOR THE DEAR DALAI LAMA THERE FOR YOU, THERE FOR ME, THERE FOR EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING–YAY!

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  4. patricia Avatar

    i looked at that last image–the night shot with moon and star and i see this. a kachina. rising out of the earth. such a powerful day/night/dream for you. and because i think the goat’s would say it if they knew, happy mother’s day dear Grace.

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  5. jude Avatar

    alignment.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    No! oh, no, no…..not at all troubling.
    the one about devotion to Art….
    i loved how you went back so far and in doing so,
    took me back with you. i really appreciated that…
    helps me see clearer….
    xoxoxo

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  7. saskia Avatar

    just trying to figure it all out: ha, life in a nut shell!! love to you and the goats and all the other animal/beings over at your place!!

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  8. Valerianna Avatar

    Liking the sound of the dreaming…

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  9. beth Avatar

    indigo sky…

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  10. linda Avatar

    do you have to put the goat up on that thing? aren’t they heavy?
    happy mother’s day .. a mother to goats and kids 🙂
    love when the earth gives us indigo..

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar

    love that night sky

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    copper, mom’s, dad’s and purple fuchias…a good day, Yes!

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. just Yay. for all of us and for all Everything

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i didn’t notice till you said this……………

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    thank you….
    it’s an ongoing thing, that figuring out

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. it was really interesting. i don’t know if i want
    to look too closely at it or not…

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    the sky.
    i inhaled deeply typing that.
    this sky here…oh, eeeeeeeeeeeeeee. it is so FINE.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    linda…no. they JUMP every so willingly, enthusiastically
    up on it themselves. just by their nature and then, once
    they know that there is extra pellets in that little dish,
    MORE. it’s really interesting. and the closing of the
    bars doesn’t phase them. ??????????????? it’s just…
    This Is What We Do.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    i would give it to you as a gift

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  20. Mo Crow Avatar

    gracias amiga!

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    times a billion

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  22. Minka Avatar

    I’m like a tree dropping leaves with no recollection of where I left my comments…so this may or may not be relevant. Looks like an interesting book if its not too angry.
    http://www.npr.org/2013/05/09/180875256/the-woman-upstairs-a-saga-of-anger-and-thwarted-ambition

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    Well, for this leaf dropped, i am
    GLAD!, like, VERY GLAD!!
    more on this soon…
    xoxoxo

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    to the Goats!!!!

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  25. Dee Avatar

    I also love that night sky and then loved how when I kept scrolling I saw the same upreaching branches against a sun-filled sky…
    the dream snippet a whole catalog of life!

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