Goat feed tubs and water tubs cleaned with vinegar……Sabine the stove got completely taken apart and recalibrated for propane gas….the shower head which has been spewing water out sideways since the visit of the young ladies (no names,  but someone must have tried to see if the spray would adjust which it doesn't and thereby caused a seperation of a gasket etc.  and since then it's been faulty.  anyway, i  was shown how to fix that.  Then Alz. B.   Before and after the afore,  tried to get the grasses back in place after taking them off to add one more petal i thought should be there,  but it didn't, but i absolutely could NOT get the grasses right again.  Who could imagine?  Only 5 blades of grass but even the slightest tilt or slant or curve changes the whole Energy.  So tomorrow again.  

The Sun shown.  And i noticed how things look different with so much humidity

 

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especially wood.  Paper feels different.  Thicker and with texture.  Even printer paper.   Money, especially feels more like cloth and tends to have an odor….a money odor.

This morning,  before all the rest,  a slow cruise around to see what changes the Day of Rain had brought.

 

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the Summer Squashes are done in.  Over, completely.  

 

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various stages of juvenile Squash Bugs.   They win.  I had hoped that  planting the squash in the big plastic landscape pots  might foil them.  Alas.  I didn't have the heart today but tomorrow i'll go look at those beauty FULL Volunteers in the compost and see if  they found their way over there.

But the really Greatest and Best thing,  i almost didn't see.

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it's a basket, Jude.   Truly a basket in form.   I look every morning for tomato worms, as i did today.  Looking long and close and then with that almost closed eyed gaze that Don Juan teaches in the Casteneda books.   Looking for very subtle irregularity of form which is the only way to see a tomatoe worm when it's still small.   Before damage.   But no…all was well and i started to move away and suddenly by True Magic this Web became visible.  Straight on it wasn't at all but from just a slight angle, it caught the morning Sun light and was THERE in all it's Glory.   In the very center,  She who had spun.   Small.  A small spider.  I will look in the morning and see if she has grown.    And with this web,  August is official.   I have been waiting.  

 

 

 

 

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16 responses to “the day that got away”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Ah, yes–those tiny things we know that ‘visitors’ (in my case ‘Intruders’) don’t know…don’t know to be gentle and look before moving or changing things. I’m still finding changes that need attending from my uninvited ‘guests’ in June. As for what rain does, I noticed several large weed tree (Aialanthus) starts poking up from the untended church garden in passing, and just went up there and pulled them out by the roots (couldn’t help it). About bugs…If you care, have sometimes had success deterring tomato and squash theft by spraying vinegar on them after rain. Perfect spider web! Joy.

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  2. linda morris Avatar
    linda morris

    such a great web photo grace. jude the spider

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  3. tracy Avatar
    tracy

    August is spider month. If she gets big enough you have to name her.

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  4. Nancy Avatar

    Oh this is a grand web! And a beautiful photo of it. I always have such trouble capturing what I see in a photo when it comes to webs.

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  5. jude Avatar

    maybe there is a little nine patch marking on her back?
    i live with this kind of humidity. my cucumbers have molded over. and even the grapes have some sot of rot. thinking i may have to put more space around things. august brings old age in the garden. time for new plantings.

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  6. dee Avatar

    the web is pure glory, but the photo that makes me most happy is the one of the squash bugs… such activity! such industry! and the way your eye caught them and the leaves and squash is wonderful

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  7. Patricia Avatar

    so struck by how the squash bugs look like seeds. squash seeds. hmmm.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    Wow! what a great web, spiders are the grand mistresses of weave, they can teach us a lot!

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    i will look at spraying vinegar for the squash bugs. But
    in my experience here, they will have their way. Sometimes
    they don’t come. But most times they do. and i don’t know the Why of either. I DID get some of the most beauty full and great Tatuma squash and zuchinni for 2 batches of Zuchinni Pizza. Celebrations of seasons, these. I still
    somehow cling to the thing of growing enough to Hold Over and this i could not do. But i think of that. I did feed self in the present. Maybe that’s good enough??
    i love the image i create of you stealthily pulling out by the roots in the dark….love this.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    this morning she was gone……………????

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    if she shows up again, i’ll call her Tracy.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    August is a being that moves in accordance to the necessity of the moment. She gives mold. She gives ripening. She gives seed and she gives Abundance of so MUCH both Beautiful and Not, but all Glorious

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love that you saw it this way…as industry….and Yes,
    Great and Effective Industry, them. I need to hold to this way of thinking of them for as long as i can

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i remember the first time i ever saw one…an adult…i called them Shield bugs because their backs looked like patterned shields. Beautiful design. Soon, i found out what they do. I don’t mind so much with the summer squash. I have some heartbreak with the winter squash. But there is no use to the heart break…
    They are pretty incorrigable. and seeds. yes. they do, don’t they.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    I wanted so much to see her…….the Spider of the year…
    but this morning she was gone….???? But…there WAS
    that moment yesterday. There was.

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  16. tracy Avatar
    tracy

    I was thinking of a name more like Lulu or Bertha. My friend named the big spider that built her web on the porch every night Bertha. That species became the Berthas. The Hamiltons were bright green Lynx spiders who tended big balls of eggs in our rose bushes every summer. It was a different spider every year with the same name. I haven’t seen any this year. I need to look. Or maybe the birds got them.

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