Alz. B's son Bill and his wife Nelia will leave for Ethiopia on Monday,  my regular day there…at the request of the Ethiopian Government, to do some kind of geologic scientific thing.  So they wanted me to come today instead since Monday would be hectic.   And then,  the Old Cowboy's NEW SPIFFY Transport Chair arrived at his house and i was going into town anyway to get him his Blue Bunny brand Chocolate Chip icecream that he had totally run out of

So….the day had a life of it's own.  

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and there in the grocery store cheap wine area was this,  that caught my eye.  The back lable says:  At the turn of the century His Royal Majesty Rex Goliath was a treasured circus attraction.  Weighing in at 47 lbs  Rex was billed as the World's Largest Rooster.  Our wines are a tribute to Rex's larger than life personality with big fruit forward flavors sure to please.   And so it was that the lable did the trick.   Not tonight,  but tomorrow night we'll see the effect of a circus rooster wine.

At Bill and Nelia's was a note that someone had given them some thing that i might have use for.  On the chair in the little bedroom

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this "sleeping bag"…all cotton,  6ft long.

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two of these,  she said "saddle covers"…????

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an opening in front and back…saddle horn and then something in the Back of a saddle "there" that  must rise up????  The stripes would make me Crazy,  but in both the sleeping bag thing and in these,  there was the feel of being stuffed with fabric or something like it and i imagined all manner of interesting and beauty FULL cloth hidden inside….

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sticking my fingers in the small rip here what was found to be inside was a variety of polyester fabrics.  And in the sleeping bag thing,  through a small worn hole was some kind of similar fibers.  Both are Very Heavy.  And though i thought they might be ok for dog beds,  i reconsidered and Not.  It would take Forever for them to dry from being washed.  So..no.  Not even for this.

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then this,  a kind of India Import cotton cloth

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??????????   Does anyone have an idea?

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I wanted to come home to the rock.   Do you see the dark crystal at the base of the Chrysocola?  What is that dark crystal  formation?  

This needs to be a post of itself alone.  Maybe tomorrow.

 

 

 

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13 responses to “Un~usual day”

  1. Deborah Lacativa Avatar

    my first impression of the crystal was basalt.
    as for the heavy cloths..I have used such things to kill weeds..ground cover until you are ready to work it.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    The “India” cloth is actually from Iran…and that city name used to be the Capital of Persia long ago…the language is Arabic–Very beautiful-LOOK> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    that bottle of rooster wine makes me laugh, hope it’s drinkable, if not it may be good for dyeing cloth!

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  4. Dana Avatar

    The picture of the rooster wine is lovely! The red and light blue cloth fragments in the background echo the label colors so perfectly. I hope it will taste as good as it looks.

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  5. vicky aka stichr Avatar

    the labels always get me. i don’t drink the stuff in the bottle, just the stuff on the label.
    please put the river back in….the stuff of life….it was just so good where you had it….besides, the roots need it.
    love you

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  6. Liz Avatar

    It’s been a long, long time, but from what little I recall of my geology studies, that must have been one amazing stone soup to spawn such a diversely crystalline result.

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  7. grace Avatar

    i’ll take them to the Thrift Shop. Someone will see them as Perfect.
    I dreamed you the other night…i thought in the dream that i should be introducing you to the Others, but then realized i didn’t know their names

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  8. grace Avatar

    then, This is magnificant! Iran! how so Great that i have Iran
    HERE!

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  9. grace Avatar

    i don’t know. didn’t try it yet. Waiting for the right moment.
    it’s from Chile

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  10. grace Avatar

    the red blue cloth fragments are my collaged kitchen wall, not cloth at all, but collage. I haven’t tried it yet

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  11. grace Avatar

    maybe vicky, maybe. But it’s about WINTER about January and the water is not visible in these days…it is UNDER ground. Roots have access, always,

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  12. grace Avatar

    i can’t really imagine????????????, there is SO much in this one
    …uhhhh…this one…..well, Piece?

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  13. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    reading the most recent post first, about the green stone, how it encourages one to stay put and then this one with the reference to Isfahan, how I was immediately transported to the reading experience I enjoyed with Thorkild Hansen’s ‘Arabia Felix, the Danish Expedition of 1765-1767’, I was under the assumption they had journeyed to the mysterious place of Isfahan. Not so! having sought out the book and wandered through it in search of a reference to Isfahan, or even Esfahan, none
    how this works in our minds: being in two places as it were, one the physical reality and the other of the mind, no less unreal, different though and how they both play tricks on us…..
    how was the wine?

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