windthread

toDay was OutSide.  Slowly slowly going.  Slowly slowly pulling Care Fully,  those grasses with the Hurtful seed heads,  stuffing them into a feed bag,  not wanting to leave it to chance to pile them to dry and then burn.  This year there's too many.   And as it Is,

 

 

 

i am moving along,  on my knees,  grasping those grasses at the point they rise from the earth,  grasping, pulling, grasping pulling,  sometimes with my whole hand sometimes with just two fingers and i am in that altered state that this kind of going can give.   But

suddenly….STOP!  and i do and i look.  Look .  Scan.  And there…  there she is.    I am not sure what i see.  This time of year she would ordinarily be browner.  She is like a newborn in color and her eyes…her eyes are a pale yellow.   But her Body is Large and Formed as a mature female is.

 

and can you see there,  at about 3 oclock an oval shape?  It is an egg case.  the bottom of which is a very cream white.   All the while i finished my own work,  she stayed close.  Moving around on the screen cloth of the frame for the winter greens bed.  Moving around,  but staying close.

I raked up the scrap feed from in front of the pallets in the Albatros and as i raked down to the bottom,  there were

Many

of those white grubs i talked about the other day.  Many.  Like, really.  Many.   And looking at them, there is a feeling of not wanting to see so many.   and later,  after i had piled the scrap feed
on the Looong Yard Bed as mulch for the winter,  i went over to that long long space of where i pile the debris from the "Bedroom" in the Albatros which is a combination of bedding straw, manure and urine.    it had stayed  pretty "high"  a pile and still had that Oat Hay from 2 years ago that didn't seem to ever want to decompose.  (no wonder the Goats didn't want to eat it)  and  i'd not really looked at it in a few months….the pitch fork still stood in it…but i dug in and turned.  And

lo and behold

there is rich,  like so so Rich Black Soil….soft,  sifting softly,  perfect and Grand and Excellent and

FINE.

and also…grubs.  Lots and Lots of grubs.  So.

it's true,  what i read on Google.  They are very Fine and Good workers.  Which for me is good because i don't have Fruit Trees which their mature selves,  those Metalic Green Fruit Beetles love…but then i remember the Native Plum that i planted this spring.

it's Complex.

Never before had i had the "Flying Olives" here.  I'd seen them other places but never here.  So   this is New and because this place has provided the excellent circumstance for their Going.  

I'll take pics of them tomorrow.  Today i just couldn't.