so today was everyother week work away day,  which i did,  then on into town for the once a week in town day.  Groceries and where i had three very fine conversations with people i'd never seen before.   I wore my Obama Tshirt from those years that seem so long ago.   Then stopped at Jan the Dog trainers to pick up eggs.  I want to make a pound cake.  and the great giant huge happiness……..her young doe Spice is

………………………………………………bagging up!!!!…………………………………………………………..*

YAY and oh just so much Hooray because it means that my beloved Sunny Ray DID THE THING!!!!!!!

oh just Joy and Happiness.  She,  Jan,  is still trying to dry her other Saneen/Nigerian cross off so he can breed her…which means he will have a Place for a few months still.  Have Work.  Be of good Use.  Be  all that he can be.  O,  my love, Sunny Ray…….

after that maybe the woman up in Magdalena will still need a Buck there.  But that's far away and  we will just stay happy for today.  Happy for Today.  Enough and Gratitude.  

also got to sit with two of her new pigs,  3 new ones, really,  but one young female is out in pasture with the original two.  This gilt she keep in one of the milking jugs with the really LITTLE boar boy.  The person she got the original two from called her,  needing to reduce his herd*, family emergency thing,  so she took 3 more.  The original two will be meat in the fall.  But these three,  if she can do it, will be kept as breeding stock.  The little one is the size of a small cat.  The feel of him was WonderFull.

*bagging up….sometime near kidding the udder begins to plump up.   different for each doe.  Could be soon,  could be a while.  But she IS bagging up.  

**i forget what you call a flock/herd of pigs…drove?maybe?  a drove?   but not a herd.

 

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need to finish this.  Cannot decide on how many strings and where.  Need to decide.  Need to finish.

 

AND ADDENDUM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the

crickets.

the crickets just now began their song.  8:01 pm  April 5,  2016

crickets Sing.

 

 

 

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14 responses to “such Huge happiness”

  1. patricia spangler Avatar

    way to go Sunny Ray. i knew he had it in him. doesn’t it all just seem like a miracle?

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  2. grace Avatar

    it does.
    it really really does.
    she was so ready to give him up for a dud. I just knew it couldn’t be, he is Gideon’s son. It couldn’t be. And he is just the best Buck Goat, so
    gentle and loving, just like Gideon.
    and what is a miracle….i’m thinking….and what miracle would i
    dream up for Sunny Ray. I just so loved him today, his freckled nose
    so softly touching me. It would be easier to not love Goats, to care
    about them like Jan does. She is the most excellent and honorable Care Giver of livestock but she is different than me and i wish i could be like her but so far i haven’t been able to….i still work at it. This is a Planet. We all have Place. In the grand scheme of things, the concept
    of pets is artificial.
    But back to Sunny Ray’s oh so Great Miracle Day….YES!!!!!

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  3. handstories Avatar

    my book says, “drove, fleet, herd, or sounder of pigs”. Now looking at goats, a “Trip of goats!”. You & your goats just give out so much joy! & I have to share, today the word “huge” tripped up a boy I was reading with, it was so hard to sound out for him, but once done, we agreed that it sounds just as it means.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    HUGS to Sonny Rae and spice! LOVE to you and your ways of being. CHIRPS to the crickets (I love that sound)

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    “have work…be of good use”. This just melted my heart because Sunny Ray, he of Gideon, in and of himself is so fine but to know that he is accomplishing what is expected of him…how can you not feel happiness, pride and love… and I forget what you originally intended for this cloth flag but to me, I would hang it close to Gideon’s place in honor of him and his Sunny Rae and you for believing that he was far from a “dud”.

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  6. Barbara Avatar

    Hello! I discovered your lovely blog through the back door of a follower. Just have to say how peaceful it makes me feel, and how much I also love the crickets. Here in NJ they don’t present their concert until late summer/early fall, and I always look forward to it. Your works in progress (goats and stitching) are delightful. I’m touched by your stitched piece. You see I love faces. This one is showcased in a most meaningful way with a red heart presence beneath it. I’m a new follower, for sure.

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    Hooray for Sunny Rae, bucks need to do what they are best at, I always think of the lustiness of the great god Pan! & re how many strings? you’ll know when there’s enough

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  8. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar

    I’m of the same opinion as Mo on how many strings . . . I’d like a frame of sticks but my head is full of ideas for frames at the moment.
    Checked out ask.com and came up with this: “The name for a group of pigs depends on the animals’ ages. A group of young pigs is called a drift, drove or litter. Groups of older pigs are called a sounder of swine, a team or passel of hogs or a singular of boars.” I just love a drift of piglets!.
    No more cicada song here Grace . . . The mornings and evenings are definitely getting chilly.

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  9. grace Avatar

    i like all of those….drove, fleet, herd, sounder
    that boy…sounding it out
    sounding it out
    that boy

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  10. grace Avatar

    the Choir of Crickets
    it begins

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  11. grace Avatar

    i am reading this again tonight, Wednesday, and
    i get all teary…..
    What CAN he DO? dear and so belov~ed him who was such a soft baby

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  12. grace Avatar

    Barbara….OH! OH!, HEY! and you are in NEW JERSEY this is
    where the father of my great grandson Julian lives now, where he was born and grew up and went back to, New Jersey,
    Mike is his name. He is a son of New Jersey. so somehow, that you are there too…this makes me feel good
    THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP HERE….Happiness!, Love,

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  13. grace Avatar

    those strings……

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  14. grace Avatar

    a drift
    a sounder
    cicada and cricket yes. You are on the Other Side…
    i love having learned that…what is here now is not there but what is there now, will be here
    makes it all easier somehow

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