at first i would have written,  an AWFUL day  or  a HARD day  or a FRIGHTENING day  or a day of SAD or a day of WORRY or…..

but none really were exact enough to say.  i would say one in my mind and it would be immediately countered by the fact that it is just a day of inordinate RAIN.  it has poured rain.  non~stop since in the middle of last night sometime.  poured.  and i mean non~stop.  more rain today than we got for the entire Monsoon weeks.  More than half of all the earth in this Place has standing water.  there has not been a single vehicle come or go down this road or any leading to it in 3 directions.  that's not true.  Early this morning the UPS woman barreled her way through.  but that was many hours ago.  

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ceiling by the door in the ROOM.

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this is Nothing compared to outside where the Goats are.  it's Mud.  they do not know what to do.

there really is nothing they Can do that is ok.  it's mud.  

the forecast is for Rain the next 3 days.  the last time this happened i think was 15 years ago?  so, i can say to myself then, well, it isn't "really" like this.   but what if it might be again?,  or more often?  i need to think of what i can do for the Goats.   once it's happening, they are helpless and so am i,  to help them.

but what i did was stitch round and round, the revolutions of DayNight on the cloth.  and i kept looking at her face, ….that expression of hers and though i couldn't possibly assume it today,  it did ease the feelings and they came and went.   it WILL stop raining sometime.  and most likely, everyone will survive and we will be Just Going again.  

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and i almost forgot to say.  That's!  what all the comotion was for last evening.  Animals know.  are so suseptible to changes in barometric pressure.  

 

 

 

 

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28 responses to “194 a kind of day”

  1. jude Avatar

    like the hurricane here, but not right here. in places nearby mud ran like a river. here it was wind. just had to wait. hoping the roof would stay on. and it did.

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  2. Dee Avatar

    three more days?!! hang in there!

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    We’ve had rain most of the day as well, sometimes heavy, right now, just steady sprinkling. Rio Rancho is under a flash flood warning and heavy thunderstorms are indicated up to Friday, tapering off a little on Saturday. At times, puddles formed near the edge of the patio and spilled over; I thought water might come into the kitchen via the sliding glass door but there is so much underlay of sand that the water doesn’t puddle for long., it just sinks down. You know that I had gone foraging on the path behind my house early this morning and made up several cloth bundles because I love to solar dye and I keep all of my equipment outside. Well HA! all of my dye pots, caldron, glass jars filled with cloth bundles are dripping with water, non are leak proof, some of my pots don’t have lids so instead of solar dyeing, I’m getting rainwater diluted dyeing!…good news is that we won’t need to water so much as Rio Rancho has pretty stringent water rules.
    Are you Ok with enough pots to catch the roof drip? Can a tarp be placed over the roof and anchored down. Dear goats, they do have shelter though don’t they but I imagine they want the freedom to roam and mud isn’t going to be all that much fun…

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  4. Minka Avatar

    Wishing the very best for you.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    the roof is ok.
    it’s the Goats.
    they have overhead shelter but that does nothing for the water
    that runs seeking it’s lowest points. it’s just mud. mud
    under the shelters. mud to lay down upon. mud.
    this is hard for me to feel for them.
    i’m thinking gravel. maybe i could shovel in loads of gravel?
    not for now, but for the “next” time? mud is not ok.
    but then, i find self thinking, why? it won’t happen again until
    something has changed….but what if we are all still here exactly
    how we are tonight and it DOES happen again? gravel. maybe gravel.
    but maybe even that wouldn’t work. maybe we just have to live
    through it.

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  6. Minka Avatar

    The circles look great.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    for them. i thank you for your best wish for Them

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    yeah. it’s how it is, those “turnings”….already
    spinning into another as i write….

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  9. Deb G Avatar

    Around here they lay down hay when things getting muddy in construction sites, it’s why I put it in the chicken pen. It might be too much for a large area, but maybe to give them a space to take comfort? Tonight I’m noticing her bare feet. The vulnerability of it.

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  10. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Maybe more picnic tables in the albatross so they can climb up and out of the mud.

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  11. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    I wonder what they are thinking? Love to them and you. XO

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace and all you look after)))

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  13. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    It is so scary when the entire landscape changes in front of your eyes, esp with the heart you wear for the goats. Are they frightened ir are they…surprised? Funny how your neighbors, the ones needing the website, were fighting too and you felt so unsettled, not just the animals.

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  14. patricia Avatar

    gravel might be a good idea–and good for their hooves

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  15. beth Avatar

    Oh! they knew it was coming. The wonder of that… Thinking of you all as you get through.

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  16. helen lee Avatar

    Love to you and your goats Grace. Thinking of you all. xx

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  17. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Three days? Poor you and goats floating around! I wish it would rain here, we had our first big bushfires around Sydney and it is only just Spring. Living here we can see global warming before our eyes and it is scary, easy to imagine it getting hotter and hotter and then dryer. I hope the goats will manage; for some reason I was thinking sawdust but I guess that would be as soft as the mud and may be hard to find? Gravel is heavy work! Love.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    how it is. wait. see what comes.

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    now they are saying even MORE. ok.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    pots to catch Rain for the dye. i think this is GOOD.
    like, Very Very Good.

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. that’s what i did today, Wednesday. it’s good
    temporary solution. but i need to think further.
    the bare feet are important. foot palms. how we touch
    where we live

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    no…the Albatros is dry inside. not an issue. it’s
    me, needing to understand how it all can go.

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    Julie…you know…i have NO IDEA what they think. i can only watch and try to understand from what i see. and
    really…frightened? i wonder if Goats are frightened?
    maybe as you suggest, they are Surprised? Confused? i don’t know. maybe i can’t know. i do know they didn’t understand how to cross through the water. when i showed them, they did it. that is very interesting to me, how i really AM a part of what they Understand to be REAL.

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    i think so. maybe.

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    we are Going

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  26. grace Avatar
    grace

    Buzz…i love thinking of you so far from here thinking of
    us here. i really really love that

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    i KNOW!!!!! isn’t it amazing???? and here too. we have
    had draught for forever and now this deluge. will it
    just Run Off to nothing?

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  28. mimmin Avatar
    mimmin

    i am like your goats in being suseptible to changes in barometric pressure: i always get a headache when a storm is heading our way but can’t run like them anymore ha!

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