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Work away day. Off balance because they were at Home. In out Out in and off balance.  and Back,  HOME here,  with words of a COLD FRONT coming,  i set to work.  Cleaning water Bowls…scrubbing with brush and Vinegar.  Moving  Sunny Ray and Gideon's Water Thing down,  some feet,  to where SUN comes in mornings now.   

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This morning it was a three kettle morning.  Heating three tea kettles on the stove…taking Out and pouring it on the frozen ice of their water.  Banging it.  with the stick i like,  but then with the shovel.  Breaking the ice so they had water which is a necessity after they  Eat Food.

and i went to work.

Came home to split and bring in Wood.  They say that an Arctic Blast is coming,  and ok,  maybe,  so i split and bring in Wood.  

Tomorrow when i go into town for the Old Cowboy,  i will take the pick up.  Get bedding straw for the Buck Goats…it's all and what i can give them,  offer them.   It's not what i WANT for them which would be Comfort…Warmth…Safety.  But i can't give those things.  They are on their own.  

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22 responses to “Stuff”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    We all can only do the very best with what we have…..your very best will be good enough! Warm BLESSINGS to you my new found friend.

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  2. Nanette Avatar
    Nanette

    thinking of them, considering their comfort, going to buy the extra straw and offering it….all this is much and more, Steadfast Woman 🙂

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Steadfast and true! I’m sure there’s a song….may the storm not be too bad and may all of you weather the weather well. You will all be on my mind and in my heart.

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  4. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    So much necessary doing and still you make time to be here …

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  5. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    i did not get back yesterday..but all through the day i had the vision of your hand and the clay held within it…and now reading thi post i imagine you..steadfast grace..and the work your hand have been doing..the strength ..the repetition..breaking ice and heating water..meeting the needs and wants of the old cowboy..moving through the day..the cloth, the clay waiting for your return..and i know what has been teasing the edge of my mind..these words..margaret atwood..
    You begin this way
    This is your hand
    This is your eye
    That is a fish, blue and flat
    On the paper, almost
    The shape of an eye.
    This is your mouth, this is an O
    Or a moon, whichever
    You like. This is yellow.
    Outside the window
    Is the rain, green
    Because it’s summer, and beyond that
    The trees and then the world,
    Which is round and has only
    The colours of these nine crayons.
    This is the world, which is fuller
    And more difficult to learn than I have said.
    You are right to smudge it that way
    With the red and then
    The orange: the world burns.
    Once you have learned these words
    You will learn that there are more
    Words than you can ever learn.
    The word hand floats above your hand
    Like a small cloud over a lake.
    The word hand anchors
    Your hand to this table,
    Your hand is a warm stone
    I hold between two words.
    This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world,
    Which is round but not flat and has more colours
    Than we can see.
    It begins, it has an end,
    This is what you will
    Come back to, this is your hand.
    it has been a good thing remembering your hand..the clay and these words
    gentle day grace

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  6. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    I’ve just started reading The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy and this phrase jumped out at me in response to your comment:
    “Within every color lies a story” (p.12)

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  7. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    i will follow you there..

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    one of my favourite books!

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  9. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Oh, I’m so glad to know that … it will make the reading all the more fun

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    me too.

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Sending some balmy night air laden with the scent of Brugmansia and Magnolia grandiflora though the ether Grace!

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  12. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    oh it will,,oh balmy night air ..it is 12 and getting colder..but sharp and clean with pine and cedar…

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  13. jude Avatar
    jude

    They don’t worry, they just deal with it. Your weather is just about like here right now. At least your days warm up a bit more.

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    Do you think? i don’t think they “worry”. I think worry is Human.
    but do you think that they don’t lie there, in the cold and
    huddle close because it is COLD and some don’t feel threatened?
    Maybe they go into some kind of altered state? Lying OutSide
    in 10 degrees is Cold. Lying on the Earth. It’s cold. for any
    kind of Being.

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  15. jude Avatar
    jude

    sorry, i didn’t mean to deny the discomfort. Survival requires an altered state. it always amazes me that there is a place like that.

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. just the best we can with what we know at the time.
    it is what it is.
    Love to you…….

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    i wish i could make it Perfect. But i really.., don’t know
    what that Might Be?, perfect. ??????????????????????????

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    hold us there…on your mind and in your heart…hold us…

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    being here helps me

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    you begin this way
    this is your hand
    this is your eye
    i THANK YOU for this, so much, it is True

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    i RECEIVE!

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    i know…and you are really right…they DO deal with it, but
    i am so so so tied to them because of how i am that i sometimes
    can barely stand it

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