it's about 15 minutes just shy of putting the little ones away for the night.  so…not long here.  but the mood has dissipated.  partly because of her

 

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Chinche, bedbug in spanish, who has a very low tolerance level for twisted energy.  no  matter the reason.  her way of dealing with it is this….which is asking that i scratch her stomach.  which is, in itself, annoying.   but she just lays there.  until i am compelled to do it.  and  in requiring that of me, and in me, responding to her,  something gets diffused and taken care of.  

it was another work away day.  i was there for feeding B. lunch which didn't go too well, but…and at her table was Al.  who held one single mouthfull of Ensure with his liquid tylenol in his mouth for the entire hour.  Sonja, his CNA who was supposed to be feeding him tried everything.  i suggested she stroke his throat.  it works with baby wild animals and frogs.  she did.  nope.  Al was having a Mood.  and i watched this and thought, well that's about exactly how Moods are.  Dumb.

after that, i went to the hardware and looked at all the possibilities and came home with a couple different snaps

 

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i don't know if they'll work any better, but i am really TIRED of the baling wire thing.  Really tired of it.  we'll see.   the orange stuff is the string from the bales of grass hay i am using.  woven like this, it keeps the babies from hanging themselves in the cattle panel.

 

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Lucky Star and Caroline helped by shoveing and whirling and pushing.

 

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on the way back in to write this,  i noticed the Elderberry pot.  is this an India Flint pot?….no….don't think so.  it's not that kind of Place.   so, you see, the Mood is gone, but the bitchyness remains it seems.  well…good enough.

and ok.  off  to do the Just Dark Things.  am even a little late.

ADDENDUM:  wHAT has been taking maybe almost a half hour,  took maybe 13  minutes tonight.  so…progress.  yes.

 

 

 

 

 

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14 responses to “208”

  1. Christi ~ Sweetpea Path Avatar

    … just guessing, as I am not her, but I might venture to say that this is EXACTLY an I.F. kind of pot, Grace. “Place,” [with a capital P as you wrote it] transcends so many boundaries …
    Those snaps look real good for that particular boundary.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    So then, efficiency and bitchiness make a good combination Grace. The writing just flows. I think your ‘Chinche; is a medicine dog of the Naturopathic School…and I hope the fence weave holds–sure is pretty…hey–I laughed out loud at this: “well that’s about exactly how Moods are. Dumb.”

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    Christi…it is. with a capitol P. but what boundries
    does it transcend?
    i think the snaps will work. we’ll see in the Morning.
    That’s when most of the Commotion occurs…when i get the
    most scabs. when i have the most Feelings.
    tho, i notice tonight, that no one but ME has feelings.
    They are all just Them. and they are FINE.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    Yes.
    Efficiency
    Bitchiness
    yes.
    Chinche would very much like that you refer to her as a
    Medicine Dog.
    she tries. i really don’t let her experiment. she would like to. maybe i should. ????
    she is out there with me during all the commotion and does these “moves”, that herd dogs do. she really doesn’t know either. maybe i should let her In with them? the babies like her.

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  5. patricia Avatar

    thanks for the chuckle. “dumb.” yep.

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Well as someone who has moods on occasion, less as I get older, but now and then…well, I don’t think of them as dumb so much as I think of them as inner house cleaning!

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  7. jude Avatar

    in this year i became old moods are just about all there is. just one kind or another.

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  8. beth Avatar

    And sometimes good enough is–just–good enough.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. dumb. yep. because today, it’s a whole different thing

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    my house is pretty clean. so for me, they are
    lingering dumbness

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    maybe it’s semantics

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it IS. just now…, this is Wednesday, just now, i put
    the babies over and almost was too easy. they knew what
    the plan was and it was really
    easy.
    how amazing

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  14. mimmin Avatar
    mimmin

    twisted energy dealt with swiftly and efficiently by medicine dog
    i like this a lot

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