stopping at the feedstore in my One Single Day away from here In Town,  getting the 50lb bag of lamb and rice dog food,  which will last one third longer without Chinche,  i had the opportunity to inquire of a Gentleman of a Certain Age who was buying feed for calves, pigs and chickens,  to inquire if he thought chickens might radically change my community of Whiptail Lizards.  Did his chickens catch a lot of lizards?   He was quiet a few moments while he mulled the question…like,  why would i care,  so i explained that i am really thinking i want some chickens but if it would be at the expense of my lizards,  then,  Not.  He said he never really paid attention to this but in his years of keeping things,  his guess would be that they would get some.  Maybe the very young ones.  But that the rest would quite quickly recognize the change and keep to places where they are safe,  like fences and wood piles, etc.

I don't know what to think of this.  I think he didn't know.  Hmmmm.  No new info to go on.

After i'd done what needed to be done,  i glanced into the copper pot…SUN was just at that point

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the onion skins that i'd added to the Yerba Mansa…breathtaking,  how they absorbed color….

 

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so this Cloth,  of Maria's Garden Flowers,  she who is sometimes 2 here,  she'd ironed it and it was folded in the mailing so had a crease.   I needed to let the crease go so washed it in a pan this morning to soften the fibers then hung it over the back of the chair before i left for work.  When i got home the crease was gone but also there was more rumples and texture in the top left, center and bottom left than needed because of the very delicate Marks there so i got out the

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and ironed just these places.

and somehow in taking off the little pieces,  i seem to have lost the "roof" of the dwelling…can't find it anywere…it's very small,  

 

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16 responses to “doing what makes sense”

  1. handstories Avatar

    surprised at the thought of you ironing! it does seem that lizards are survivalists & would figure it out, but then again, I don’t know anything either. do love that glowing spot of pink & how it brings out the rosy glow of the big cloth.

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  2. grace Avatar

    i needed to iron. those places are very delicate and subtle.
    I didn’t want them lost in wrinkles
    the lizards…well….maybe over a couple or a few generations,
    it would be inborn…chicken predators…but …they are so
    Elegant, the tiny ones, the first year ones…to bring in
    predators….

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    hey Grace ,my eyes sparkle by seeing the piece of rag ,I love the sun or moon in square on the left corner on the top , it give me the feeling to caress that place , look forward to see wath this cloth will become
    ( i know i’am really early awake this morning , bud i was early (8.30 ) falling in to sleep yesterday evening )
    wish you a good night and dreams who give you visions

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    love it that you give attention on the lizards , bud indeed probability ( wath a word !!!!) they are quick enough to find a safe place ,
    color and sunlight and eyes full of love to see it
    greets to you

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  5. grace Avatar

    “the piece of rag”
    “the piece of rag”
    this piece of rag….
    Early is good. it leaves us Raw, early…
    night visions….

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  6. grace Avatar

    probably. yes. such an ify word, probably.
    The ARE quick. Very extremely quick.

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    Your cat Tazmeena & Tay now would be more of a threat to your lizards than chooks, lizards are smart & quick!

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  8. grace Avatar

    cat…Tazmeena, she wasn’t much into lizards. Birds some, but not lizards. Too Fast. She’s old now and not much of a hunter of anything at all.
    Tay, she’s not a hunter.
    Chooks…they hunt.
    But it’s true. Lizards. they are quick.

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  9. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hi Grace, chooks WILL eat lizards (small ones) if they get the opportunity. My chooks certainly eat them, but not often. They also eat frogs if they get the chance. I’m afraid cats are the worst offenders, will eat the little skinks. Don’t touch the big blue tongues, they are very feisty, and will spit and hiss. What I try to do is keep the chickens away from the areas the lizards and frogs frequent. I have big areas of large rocks for the lizards to hide and sleep. Really love all our animals and try to keep them all safe.
    The cloth in your hand looks so rich and yummy. ox

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  10. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    For these few moments I’m transported and staring at your yard, then at the cloth, after meditation with Sharon S. at Tibet house and, well I’m just tired–yoga morning and meditation evening and a great lot of walking around the hard city navigating melting puddles sometimes like lakes, sometimes streams, and lots of dirty slush. I need boots. The ones I’ve had for five years or more are treadless and not waterporoof but comfortable. Anothe thing to search for come February’s cash infusion (after basic bills of course)–I’m rambling. Look in your email for Picasso’s Goat. XXOO

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  11. Martine Bos Avatar

    Some days,like today, i can hardly understand what you’r talking about but i want to be here and say hi.
    I’ve been talking politics all night and had to switch from German to Dutch and so on. Now i’m happy to read about lizzards and goats and chickens………….
    Yoy brought me back to normal Grace and i thank you for that……..sleep well…..

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  12. grace Avatar

    skink…ONCE, while digging for the buck pen fence i dug a
    skink….i was startled! a skink????? blue tail, indigo taled one…how so incredibly BeautyFull
    but i don’t imagine ever seeing one again…they live secret lives. The Whiptail sisters, a different story. And will they be fast enough????
    I won’t do the chucks if they need penning. Enough penning here already. Can provide them an evening/night place, but for the day they would need to be free. Still thinking.

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  13. grace Avatar

    the Hard City in old boots
    but you go, don’t you. You go anyway.

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  14. grace Avatar

    this makes me laugh. It did the first time i read it and now, later, it still does. I smile and think of you, translating
    yourself blue in the face…
    i love you, Martine

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  15. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hey Grace, My chooks are free during the day and only get locked up in their house at night. We have LOTS of foxes here. The chooks put themselves to bed at night, we lock them in. The areas where the skinks and frogs inhabit the most, are fenced off from the chooks!! The foxes do come by and kill sometimes during the day, but we love the chooks to roam free during the day because it makes them very happy and very friendly. Also they get to do what comes naturally, having dust baths, basking in the sun, joining us for lunch on the verandah, scratching in the dirt etc. They have nearly 2 acres to roam. Marg ox

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