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for some blessed moments, the above.

but then, the day went on.  into Town, laundromat, grocery, stopping to do a quick clean up of a house so when She got back home to day, She would be happy, or at least ok.  it was just a tune up.

then home and spend time with Goat things.  a little bit of longingly stitching on the above cloth, but needing to leave it.  because of what i'd set into motion yesterday when on the way home from the dump,  i stopped at a house along the way.  the woman who lives there is a cashier at one of the grocery stores…i know her from that and i know she has a son.  a grown man.  and so, i've been looking at these BIG Cottonwood stumps piled in their yard for some months….and i see that it's just the screen door so i stop and the son is there and he turns out to be the Ditch Rider, Jones who has recently been replaced by another young man.  i don't recognize Jones because he is not in his ditch rider truck or his hat but he recognizes me.  LONG STORY SHORT…arrangements made for him to bring me a Giant Stump.

oh…..comotion outside…be back in a minute…..

so.  a giant stump.  for the Goats in the Back.

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the gallon water jug gives perspective.

and his tractor got stuck.

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so we put some boards in and hosed it with water.   at some point earlier, when i was breaking off and stacking these bamboo stalks, a wasp…which i am assuming has a nest there, same as last year, STRUCK and stung my bottom lip.  so…and since i have benedryl for in case of the Fire Ant bite, i take.  and going back  out, i see…WHAT? no less than the fire ants going along too, near this bamboo.  so i wander about, out there to see where the mother nest is.  find it.  dump the DEATH granules on it.  and…then, going out Front, since i am in the See~ing mode, i notice a brand new

Fire Ant nest RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WALKWAY!

How one seeing leads to better Vision.    so.  where are we now.  ok.  the stump is delivered, the fire ants SEEN and dealt with.  and, really, i am pretty much done in.  remember, it's around 100 degrees.   and really, i'd like to just quit for the day.  but…………..there are the young vegetable plants.  in the past, i'd say to Self…well, i'll do it in the Morning.  but tonight, with that word,

Stamina

i just go.  i go and water everything.  i come in, here, and write the words.  Stamina.  maybe it's not quite the right word.  so…i am thinking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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18 responses to “105 and then, Evening added on…a post script…rethinking the word Stamina”

  1. Dee Avatar

    and there’s the window!

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  2. saskia Avatar

    oh now I see the window, I was blinded by the cross and could not see past that; did notice the horse on the left
    btw what a beautiful poem in yesterday’s post, am definitely going to print it and hang it next to Barry Lopez’ quote

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    WHERE??

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  4. jude Avatar

    the whole thing

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  5. kat Avatar

    Yes, and she looks out in the dark, as a Red Hawk (?) flies near, looking closer, for . . .
    (Raven came to mind first, but he’s not red winged.)

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  6. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    To my delight, I was able to greatly enlarge your color photo on my screen! I love details as much as the big picture in everything! I am so visual, it’s often too much for words. So much of interest already in your piece, and it’s only just begun.

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  7. jude Avatar

    Fire ants, they sound magnificent in a way i don’t need to be near. it is amazing how much energy you can summon up for love of place. or anything really. i am off to use mine up. knowing there will be more. the stump is glorious really. so many here after the storm, one almost 4 times that size that still lies alongside the road. to big to move.

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  8. saskia Avatar

    THERE!
    my word, what a GIANT STUMP

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  9. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    is “perserverence” the word you are looking for? Meaning to go on even when you would rather not, while i think stamina means the energy substrate.

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    Yikes Fire Ants!!!! Ouch, they are mean little beasties, you are doing so much Grace, remember to take it a bit easy in the middle of the day get in the shade when you can & fill your hat up with water and slop it on… still waiting for that birthing blaaaat?

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    smile…..
    and i am working on NOT seeing two intersecting lines,
    one vertical and one horizontal as a
    “cross”…with all the connotations

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes!!!! isn’t it magnificant???? and the great part was
    that he said to come anytime and pick out another and
    he will bring it!!!!

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    more story…this is good

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    YES!…that was one of the orginal things that made me
    want to make a blog…so i could double click the pics…
    sometimes the big picture is too much and the details
    are just right….
    so visual…yes. me too.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i want your road stump.
    i feel so lucky that this guy was willing to haul it over
    here. i will get at least one more and connect them
    by some kind of bridge.
    and yes. summoning energy for Place and sometimes it is
    the physical place and sometimes it’s the “anything really”
    …that thing about devotion. and again…what i think
    the term Serve means to me. summoning energy out of Love
    for a thing, a place, a way of just going.
    yes.
    Hey Ho

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    then…if it’s that stamina means “the energy substrate”,
    then stamina IS the right word. it’ IS an energetic
    thing, a kinetic thing… thank you for that interpretation.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    can’t do hats. maybe dumb, but can’t. hair is bad
    enough.
    and yes. still waiting and i write this on Saturday eve.

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