Today is the BEST DAY.   The very BEST of Best days.   It  could not possibly have been better.

I had told my granddaughter that i would participate in the world wide meditation for peace and  that took place at 10a.m. my time.   So early before that i checked Everything.  Checked and reChecked.  Everything was good.   It was cool.    There was the slightest breeze and the SUN fell softly upon the land.   Everyone fed.   The hour of the meditation,  which is a whole other story, but not for now.   And once over,   i picked up the tools and went to the Way Back.   With the company of all Goats,  pried loose 3 fence slats and it was Done.  

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came around and took this from the porch.   They just went through.  You can see Tay…flying sideways from going so fast to see it

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Just Going,  the last one through

 

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They were excited.  They were READY.  but also,  it was interesting that they just Went.   It was all most as if they had known all along it could be this way and were anticipating but waiting for me to make it happen.   There was no milling about,  just purposeful Going.   They had not been back in the middle pen for a year, most of them,  but they remembered and checked every single thing out.  Went back…through the corridor several times, back and forth

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enjoyed BROWSING on the Salt Cedar,  which they can't "browse to death"…

and that was 

it.

If ever  "All was well",   this would be the moment.   Tay,  for her part,  was Thrilled with it all,  ran and leaped,  ran and leaped,  flew through the air and landed on a dime at the fence….sniffed and nuzzled and was totally RAPT  but did not utter a single bark.  Did not push,  did not lunge.  Just ran  along the perimiter of it all,  taking every opportunity to lick  an ear,  a shoulder,  a nose and the Goats, for their part,  paid really almost no attention to her.  Always acutely AWARE,  as Goats are,  but really,  just took her in as Part of It All.

The bucks….the bucks watched,  mesmerised from a distance,  muttering sometimes,  sometimes Nogal calling out…he is still in that netherland between buck and baby,  so called out for his mother, his sister,  but called out too for just Does.   But there was no undue comotion.

I cannot tell what great great sense of OKness this day brought.   They are not Free Range Goats,  but i am not a free range woman either.   But we have done all that we can possibly do to make things as OK as we can possibly make them.   And there is a HUGE sense of goodness to it.   This is just OK.   Like Goldilocks,  they will not be too hot,  nor too cold,  nor too wet,  nor too dry,  nor too small nor too large,  they can be pretty much as just right as it can be.   And i am relieved.

What does it mean,  i ask self….to be relieved?….thinking.   But for this evening,  i just want to FEEL it.  Just want to Go Out and sit…here and there,  different places and watch,  look, feel.

This is how it's going to be for who knows how long.  I no longer choose to entertain the question of How Long.  This is how it is.  and we are just so OK.  We are OK.

 

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in Weave Diaries,  Jude talked about thread nest.   This is my thread basket.  

And she wrote about making a TOOL  of a loom that suits her and i recogized that thought….

 

 

 

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i love Tools.   like really,  love Tools.   and this is the loom i see.   For a rag rug.  Maybe about 3X5

or even,  4x6ft.   I am going to figure out how to make this.   It has to have Wing Nuts.  I love.  Love.  wing nuts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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23 responses to “grace and the Goldilocks Goats”

  1. ² Avatar
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    those lucky goats
    lucky tay
    lucky you
    i like the thread basket-nest
    the draw is promising
    greets , enjoy your day

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  2. Margaret Johnson Avatar

    Ahhh, what a lovely joyful day you and your animals have had today. Makes my heart sing! Beautiful animals, beautiful sunny day, beautiful idea for your goats to have more freedom to wander, beautiful Tay. Love your idea for the rag rugs. My Mum used to make beautiful rag rugs, from old worn out jumperes etc. With 18 kids she needed to recycle everything. Fortunately I have followed in her footsteps as far as recycling goes. I’m an old woman now and my Mum died when I was 19, but her practicalites live on in me. (still miss her). Wishing you lots of good, Marg. oxox

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Jabberwocky
    By Lewis Carroll
    ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.
    “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
    The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
    Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
    The frumious Bandersnatch!”
    He took his vorpal sword in hand;
    Long time the manxome foe he sought—
    So rested he by the Tumtum tree
    And stood awhile in thought.
    And, as in uffish thought he stood,
    The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
    Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
    And burbled as it came!
    One, two! One, two! And through and through
    The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
    He left it dead, and with its head
    He went galumphing back.
    “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
    He chortled in his joy.
    ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.
    Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)

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  4. jude Avatar

    i really thing think this pathway is something. it changes everything for me. how it might go. and lets make a loom shall we?

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  5. Patricia Avatar

    yes! let’s make a rag rug room–er, loom. let’s, please.
    and Grace, this was a delight to read at the beginning of this day. a total delight. words and pics captured well the feeling of expansion, curiosity, goat surety, confidence. unafraid of the new and willing to just move into it. goats remind me of boy a bit. new school this year. much bigger. many changes. i stand in the shadows with breath held, watching with some trepidation but with the sense that at the end of the day, i too will be able to say “all is well.”

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  6. Patricia Avatar

    and right now i’m thinking about the rug loom–wondering if broom handles would work for the end pieces?

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  7. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    ‘it’s such a perfect day….’springs to mind (Lou Reed, right?)
    aha, a rag rug loom, now that has really got me thinking: working on a larger scale, wow and also there’s a bag in my car for the thrift shop stuffed with clothes and maybe I’ll use them myself for rugs for the boys (mostly their clothes anyway) instead of giving them away…..hmmmm…pondering now about how I might make this loom??

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  8. Patricia Avatar

    you’ve raised some interest, Grace. i see navajo weavers under shade trees in the desert.

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  9. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    smiling here in vermont..imagining minds full of happiness across the world ..al of us..breath held watching the passage of this wonderful day..smiling for the joy of it all…i have a big old bag that i stick odd things in carry..made of a wonderful old rag rug…and wherever it goes people stop and suddenly there are small oral histories pouring forth..of rag rugs in their pasts and oresents.
    .it is so amazing how evocative this small piece of woven cloth is..i simply love it but somehow it has grown beyond its own size and become a container of thought and emotion..i am now occasionally weaving worn pieces back in..darning here and there..and still putting up with the bag lady teasings ..but it feels right and good..
    today i will hold this post in my heart..i am going out to plant two small clumps of sweet grass behind my elderberries up on a hill ..they are a gift from oregon…i am holding my breath..i had three and have sent one further north ..and then will come down to work on my steep and slippery slope beneath my now finally repaired retaining wall…but my heart and head will be full of the goldliocks goats and your beautiful day..and pondering a loom.. every time i think wing nuts i will smile gentle day grace

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  10. beth Avatar

    Okay! Almost a movie. I can fill in the in-betweens. Happy for the very good best of best days.

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  11. grace Avatar

    YES!….a loom. Yes. but as you were saying…it needs
    to fit the Need. Am counting on you to help me figure
    that out….
    here, it needs to hang from that beam. Will take better
    pics of the beam. I have no space for it to be any other
    way and also then i can just do it a little at a time and
    have it just be there waiting…
    THIS IS SO SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!EEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeer

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  12. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar

    so glad all your hard work brought happiness to you.
    big big smile

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  13. handstories Avatar

    the goats- they know you and watch you right back. I love the dance of you and your goats. excited to watch your loom become, & what’s not to love about a wing-nut (especially when one spins)

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  14. grace Avatar

    yes. we are beyond lucky, us here….we are just Fine.

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  15. grace Avatar

    Margaret, i wish, if you could, you would put some pics
    of her rugs over on the Forum to Weave Diaries. I would
    SOOOOO much love to look upon them.
    and i would so much love someday hearing the Story of a
    woman who had 18 kids. I cannot imagine having 18 kids.
    do you ever think to tell her story?
    love to you….

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  16. grace Avatar

    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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  17. grace Avatar

    probably many things would work. but i am lazy and want it
    to be EASY.

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  18. grace Avatar

    we will be patient.

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  19. grace Avatar

    sweet grass behind the elderberries…and wing nuts.
    how much better could thoughts get?
    and your bag…o….yes. a carpet bagger…..

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  20. grace Avatar

    i wish i could make a movie

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  21. grace Avatar

    it was Hard and it was Worth IT….really worth it…and
    i love that so much…

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  22. grace Avatar

    really…wing nuts…what Brilliance, Wing Nuts….

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