it's sometimes like watching re runs of an old TV show.  but it's days.  a string of days will begin with the Intention to 

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full days, strung together, to cloth work.  and then i watch as Time is eaten.  there's nothing really to do about it but just go.  

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but it's done.  all done.  too much to detail but a LOT of re~doing of many  falling apart things.  and then the Old Cowboy who got put off because of the above.  4 days.  and on the way home from that, it began this soft soft Rain.  Woman Rain.  continuing.   and  things all around have such a different quality/color with Rain

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almost especially rocks.  their Other Nature becomes visible.

 

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and the Verdo Laga is everywhere seemingly overnight.  Purselane.  stir fry in a tiny bit of olive oil with a touch of something else you like.   Eat the weed.   addendum:  Google verdolaga and look for How to Cook Verdolaga  Chanfles.com  and go along there till you get to the place to click the little video, I love Verdolaga.  this would be me in my dreams on my continent with Goats

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i have to get over this.   sometime, when she can,  Cindy the nurse from Alz B's old folks home will come to help me "band" the 3 little bucks.  castrate.    i want them all to remain intact and create hundreds and thousands of beautiful baby goats.  all patterns and colors and combinations just to watch it happen, to see how many patterns and colors and combinations can happen.  in my Heart of hearts i want an entire continent to populate with Nigerian Dwarf Goats.  all of this years kids are extremely beautiful.  really, i might even say, the best yet.  and too, they are Buckwheat's kids. But, Alas.

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this is just a piece of muslin from the new Walnut vat.  only a day and a half.  and not so reddish, really as here, on the little cloth line late in an overcast rainy day.  but just look.  Meera in phonetic spanish……… oh, jeez.  and oh jeez.

 

 

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  1. Deb G Avatar

    Goat colored cloth… How beautiful. Yes, it seems reasonable that plumbing would need to be fixed. Sooner or later everything needs mending…

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    Deb, yes…mending…
    why does it always come as such an unhappy surprise????
    what got mended here took YEARS of slow steady leaks to
    finally Fall to it all…
    i really Wish i could finally just go Through and Beyond
    all the thoughts and feelings and just do what needs to be done. just mend. just Go. just……..

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Woman rain makes the shine, the brightening to everything…and that I so understand the wish for a goat continent. Alas indeed. A shepherd has to think like a shepherd and count the hectors of ground, and the facts of energy and time, of course. Good you have experienced help. Yes that’s a goat colored cloth alright! Nice match.
    I love the way you use words, but have a bunch of questions if you happen to stumble on time to answer them///and. don’t worry if not…if I need to know real bad, I’ll research:
    Is verdolaga the same as purselane? (photo 6)
    Is that orange Lantana? and the bright pink is? (photo 4)
    What is the nature of rocks?, and what is their other nature? I don’t think I ever thought about the ‘nature’ of rocks.

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  4. patricia Avatar

    so amazing to consider rocks. and to think of their atoms. and all the space in between. and that what they present to us appears to be solid matter. oooooooh.
    two words here at the beginning…intention and devote…devotion. yes. two words for today. thank you

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  5. Penny Avatar

    So glad to have found your blog through Jude’s. We were in New Mexico earlier this year and loved it. Your ‘cloth’ is beautiful and very evocative.

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  6. saskia Avatar

    your garden and the goats all look so very beautiful; the dyed cloth is almost a goat; ah yes the jobs that need to be done can be a drag….we have (have to!) replace the verandah roof, last winter melting snow leaked in various spots and this summer the monsoon-downpours showed me exatly where the holes are;-)
    I’m glad for you that you got your hot water sorted, these things matter (as of yesterday, we were once again able to shower in our own home)

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  7. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    This is terrific, this cloth of walnut. The magic of walnuts lies in the fact that it only takes a little time to get that richness of brown, that luscious earth chocolate, mocha, burnt brown color, the color of dirt so rich that you could almost lick the cloth…! You can vary the hues by the length of time it sits in the walnut bath…this gives me great joy.

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. verdolago/purselane but there are kinds of it. some more FOOD than others and i don’t know how to tell you about that from here. here, it’s the FOOD kind.
    the orange are the marigolds that Patricia sent?
    and rocks. well, they are Beings. they have been here,
    Experienced this Place of Planet for so long…these that have found themselves risen up in their small, broken off forms. there is a great long history. story in rock and stone. those Vibe lines. vibrations.

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…here i am the Next Day. and devote. and i didn’t
    but as i type this i can smell the scent from the buck goats who i cleaned their water tub for
    and Who is to Say?, what devotion IS?

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    PENNY!…thank you for your cloth words and yes…
    N Mex is a place of it’s Own. Thank you for coming by
    and feel very welcome, please

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    these “conveniences”. yes. very much yes. allow for so
    much that can’t happen when the days are so full of small
    goings.
    i love this time of year

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    Marti…a nice. very nice. good and nice Pot awaits you

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  13. Dee Avatar

    love your yard, your goats, your cloth, your words… sometimes ‘just going’ means going somewhere else, doesn’t it?

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    it DOES, Dee
    it does
    and i have seen that, know that. it yes. does.
    and i WANT to be good and ok with that

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