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been trying for a few days to get this pic of this Bee Like Being.  What IS it?  Not sure.  Not a honey bee.  ??????   But LOOK at the pollen…………

 

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LOOK.  from Lacelady of Washington state.  She met equally with Squirrels for these and Sent.

 

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part of the HouseKeeping was clearing the table.  Which only took a small while,  in reality,  but has loomed large for many many days now

 

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Walnuts now are SunSteeping for all the side B's of the coming year.  I have INTENTION….yes,  not just random,  but Intention.   Some in the cast iron.  Some in the  copper.  Some in the ummm,  well this last pot.  In this moment can't think of it's name…the……o,  eee,  can't think but it doesn't matter, they are in there and they are SunSteeping.  This time is different.  Purposefull.  Yes.  and the feeling is very very good.

So…a day Here.    Here.  Home.  and it lasted a whole day.  It was elegant and fine.   It began with that bee being on the Sun Flower when i went out to first feed this morning and it went on through the raking and cleaning of the area in the Albatross where the grass hay is stacked and then the stacking of the grass hay.   The flattening and stacking of the feed bags from pellets that had been just thrown aside for a couple weeks and putting them in place along the far North Wall.  The loading of the scrap feed into the Other wheelbarrow.  Moving the truck,  Tay getting IN for that and feeling fancy even though it was only just some feet,  but she did.   She "worked" along side me through everything,  carrying her favored piece of wood

and we cleaned and ordered the Dye Table and noticed how the Janet Chairs are kind of like Praying Mantis

and a storm was coming so i vacuumed allthelayerofdogandcathair that was weighing us down and now we are LIGHT and vibrating High and Just So Fine

and  just now we gave Water to Everything

and maybe that's a kind of leisure?

it Felt that way?…a just Going from thing to thing with NO RUSH,  a doing of things that WANT to be done in slow and fine way?  Maybe that for me,  is Leisure?

 

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27 responses to “House Keeping…..like there’s different kinds of Love, there might be different kinds of Leisure”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    sounds like a perfect day!

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  2. grace Avatar

    Yes.
    and now…
    i am watching Night come.
    Perfect.
    Yes.

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  3. Wendy Avatar
    Wendy

    Perfect.

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  4. Cindy from Georgia Avatar
    Cindy from Georgia

    I just laughed. You make my heart merry, Grace.

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  5. julie Avatar

    I love the word housekeeping. For that is exactly what it is.

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  6. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    What a very fine day! I love the picture I see in my mind of Tay working along with you. A fine day for Tay then, too. The bee is so beautiful. I’ve never seen one like it. Just lovely all around.

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  7. Dana Avatar

    It feels so good to work through the “list” and float light and free through an ordered world. Yay for the walnuts…what a treasure!

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  8. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Three of the Thirteen kinds of Leisure
    1. Napping whenever one feels inclined
    where eve one fells inclined to nap
    2. Working in a quiet steady way all day
    at whatever one likes to do for work
    3. Gazing calmly at what is right there
    without need to shift that gaze away

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  9. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    oh i like these so much

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  10. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    sort of along day and night going into this morning and i opened this up and could feel the tension simply drain away..now i feel so much lighter as well….gentle day grace

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  11. beth Avatar

    I really hate to rain on a generous and loving act and we all do love black walnuts… But there are several diseases affecting the trees in the US right now. A couple of them are fungi related and at least one is spread by a beetle. Just something to keep in mind…
    Love the days that flow like this one did for you.

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  12. grace Avatar

    when i get back today, i’ll boil them a while. Just in case.

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  13. grace Avatar

    very much. yes.

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  14. grace Avatar

    there’s goodness in making laughing/merry heart…this
    returns the merryness
    love….

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  15. grace Avatar

    I do too. HouseKeeping. i do love the word and the doing of it

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  16. grace Avatar

    the bee being is really interesting to me…different from the
    honey bees
    and there is a third kind, smaller but similar to this one…
    and Tay…yes…she was so so glad to be going around and
    around…she was Happy!

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  17. grace Avatar

    lightness…that feeling of lightness
    and the sense of order…, i love that so much
    am THRILLED with these HUGE walnuts compared to the small
    wilder ones on that one tree here…and that they are still
    green hulls. I waited too long here and the hulls had browned.
    They will still work, but i’m wondering the difference.

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  18. grace Avatar

    i love these too. Continue on, please????

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  19. grace Avatar

    it drained away here, too.
    and Oh so gentle day, to you,

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  20. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I thought of it as a group effort so anyone can continue with #3 and so forth. Do one or two or more as you feel inclined. When we reach 13 I’ll come back, pick them all out and do a blog post with attributions. Carry on………

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  21. beth Avatar

    Apparently the nuts and hulls do not fall under the same restrictions for transport that I had been seeing. The disease is so serious in some areas that the restrictions for moving the wood are county by county. How sad to think these trees are under such a threat.
    http://nfs.unl.edu/documents/foresthealth/walnut%20wood%20quarantine%20&%201000%20cankers.pdf

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  22. grace Avatar

    a great link. Thank You for the research…

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  23. Martine Bos Avatar

    Dont know what kind of bee it is Grace but that doesnt matter as i love all bees, and isn’t she working hard?
    And the walnuts……….i’m dying with them these days……..

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    it doesn’t matter., does it. and the POLLEN is Supreme
    walnuts. You…Me….
    I tried to leave a comment with you but it wouldn’t take

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  25. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    I did check with an arborist and local plant specialists, before sending ~ which in my haste to send ~ I had failed to tell Grace. The link you shared is a good one, thank you.

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  26. Kat Scott Avatar
    Kat Scott

    … working in a quiet steady way…. yes that is leisure, and taking time to look at the work.

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  27. grace Avatar

    it is…so much so…leisure, the quiet and the steady
    i did that today..Sept 3

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