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i'd brought this coat rack home from the Old Cowboys.  Really,  there is no where to put it,  but i want it because i am tired of all my  "transitional" clothes hanging on that hook , obstructing the hallway to the bedroom.  This time of year till spring,  i have 3 kinds of clothes….regular going clothes,  Goat clothes,  going into town clothes.  It's like when i was a kid.  when you get home from school,  you take off those school clothes and put on play clothes.  Like that.  And i have no washing machine here,  so i wear things over and over,  even the stinky Goat Work clothes.   So.  Here we are.  in the Bathroom.  Kind of a tight fit,  but really,  very functional.  Will leave it a while.  See how it goes.

 

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a lot of stitching.  The feeling of this pouch…because of the doubled silk noile……………

 

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Alyssia brought the drum in.  Her sleep patterns are not patterns and peculiar only to her.  I could hear her playing it in the dark.

 

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this Cloth,  earth pouch,  called Birthright,  for all the just borns

 

and last but very much not at all least,  SunnyRay got loaded up this morning by me and Jan and since i can't yet lift a lot with the fence crushed shoulder,  i'd enlisted the great fence making kid,  young man really,  who IS my new neighbor over there in the horse pasture to the East,  i'd enlisted him to help load into the truck.  SunnyRay weighs probably 70 lbs.   It was pouring rain.  We unloaded at Jan's,  a reluctant SunnyRay until he caught a whiff of her does and trot along he did and into the yard with Nougat and Spice and it was a Whirl,  his Dream come true that he didn't even know How to dream,  but now he will.  He will be there till Spring and then we'll see.  

For now though,  and what makes it the most Gentle of Gentle Days,

 

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Tay has this very soft Sob of Longing.  She so much Wants contact with this One  and over time, she will.  I'll train him to lead so when the kids are here,  they can take him Around with them.  Wethers are WonderFull in this way  (neutered males),  so Willing for anything,  no hormonal NEED and the other "natural Goats",  Does and Intact Bucks don't mind.    It's a great life,  a Wether's.

 

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and Gideon can spend the rest of his days,  no matter,  with a Friend rather than as it's been with a young and virile  son who wants him to be a doe and knocks him around.  This makes me so so happy. Alyssia spent a lot of time with Gideon.  Petting him,  talking with him.  He was in heaven.   This is just so so so and more SO good.

and i forgot to say his name.  Jumpin Jack Flash.

 

 

 

 

 

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24 responses to “Gentle day”

  1. jude Avatar

    good ol Gideon, this is good.

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  2. grace Avatar

    it is. It is just so beyond good. He held his own but it was
    always ify for the last long time. Was hard for him. No fault
    of SunnyRay’s, just Goat stuff. But still. This is so great,
    that things are gentle for him. This winter will be hard but
    maybe he’s got another Spring to go?, who knows, but Jack
    Flash will be a Friend. They will keep eachother warm in the Winter months.
    I was just out there to see what was going on and they are
    good already, little Jack Flash sticking close.

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  3. Valerianna Avatar

    Haha… I have a chair that I try try try to keep clear in my bedroom. But there are the getting up in the morning emptying ash, loading wood stove, eating breakfast clothes and THEN the going out to the studio clothes and then the “in town” clothes which is the same stash as the “go teaching” clothes. It stays clear for like an afternoon, at most. So, I relate to the transitional clothes thing. And very much like the look of that older goat showing a little one the ropes, so to speak. 🙂

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  4. grace Avatar

    yes, the clothes. The clothes make me crazy. In the
    Warm months it’s naked and something. Easy
    Now, layers upon layers…peel them as the day goes along, but
    where to PUT them, the peelings….
    eeeeeeeee

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    (Me too–off with the street clothes and on with the knock abouts…and I wash things in the bathtub just about every day. Avoid trips to the laundromat but for maybe twice a year. Unfortunately I have a room full of sorted clothes I mean a FULL small room and I can’t make myself go in there for decisions – YET -)
    Nothing lovlier than the stories of goat changes….good changes and how adorable is Jack! How sweet for old Gideon, and how so so happy I am for Sunny Ray’s Winter prospects.
    The pouch is be-U-ti-Full.

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  7. yvette Avatar

    Gentle feelings reach me
    Wish i could hear allysia playing the drum
    The pouch…no words
    Love

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  8. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    making me smile on so many levels..test

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  9. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    and then i lost you again….Jumpin Jack Flash is now playing in my head..,,what year that was…every thing was so intense..i was so passionate about everything..and so many changes were occurring ..it seems so amazingly right that gideon would get this small wether as a friend..well that makes sense to me somewhere ..for the excitement of sunny ray and the new found peace of gideon..
    it is the most perfect morning here..the sky is just gold outlining the ills..jupiter and venus are hanging still right in front of my window and when i look out over the meadow i can almost see the hills which change daily now,..the storms of this week took all of the reds and now it is a landscape of golds and rusts and oranges..the colors of the Birthright pouch so echo what i will see in an hour or so..
    looking for my dad’s old flannel shirt and realizing that it was last seen on the back of my niece.. a minute of heart ‘s panging and then a sense that it is exactly right..imagining the sound of your drum..how much your posts fill my mornings
    gentle day grace

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  10. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Smile to see the Scottish drum, the rust giving it a patina that begs to be rubbed on cloth.
    The gentleness of companionship; 2nd to last photo, Gideon and Jumping Jack Flash eating, Tay watching them, saying in her own way, “Welcome” and the last photo, sweet Gideon looking at us, and in that contented, quiet moment, all is right with the world…

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  11. beth Avatar

    That last photo is so heartfelt. Gideon looks grateful.

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  12. Patricia Spangler Avatar

    oh yes–BIG BIG yes

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  13. grace Avatar

    haven’t heard that expression in a long time

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  14. grace Avatar

    yes…all of it was Good.
    i keep very few cloths. am a laundromatoholic because of
    sheets. Right now, take clothes to the Old Cowboys. Will
    miss that when time comes.

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  15. grace Avatar

    i wish you could too…you would make soft humming sounds

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  16. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    So happy for all of you, Grace. Full hearts.

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  17. Deb G Avatar

    Been catching up, long week here. Thinking about ebb and flow, doors that open and shut. Going to go find my Nick Bantock books, perfect for today.

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  18. Valerianna Avatar

    I suppose I have a bit more room to work with… that chair can hold a lot and is pretty much out of sight when I’m downstairs doing my thing.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love it when you tell me of your world…the one you live in
    now, the one you remember so vividly

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    the contentedness continues. Watching Gideon is
    Beyond Beauty Full.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    Big Big yes for Big Big Gideon

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    happiness is shared, feel it??????

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    incredible mind, his…..

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