so,  it's hotter than hot and as i am,  i suddenly feel like it's the day to do the bedroom.    Which is tiny.  Like tiny.  The full size bed,  a box spring and mattress,  OLD,  over top are two good futon mattresses.  So it's HIGH and is really the Only thing in that room i love.    The two futons bring me to window level and especially since Travis put in a Real Window some months ago,  real like that it opens and closes,  i have loved this.  But there is NO ROOM.  There's the bed.  There's the two utility shelves of cloth and my clothes.  That's it.  Well,  not really.  Against the wall is the fold up bed.  On the side at the foot of the bed are framed things.  Two large photographs,  a painting i never finished and a collage montage of my Minnesota Family.  And then the laundry basket.   Not there NOW is the other floor basket with all the Maybe s in it that are no longer maybe.   The part about it that is the WORST is that i can't vacuum  around or really under the bed.  Its been years.  eee……shame of that……

so tomorrow morning travis and everett are supposed to arrive and haul it out.  All of the bed stuff.  Travis can keep the futons if he wants to,  they are very good ones,  but he can keep them in his storage thingy.  The box spring and the mattress go to the dump.  I will use the fold up bed Until.  This is exhilarating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  So i am vacuuming and sweating and vacuuming and vacuuming and hauling things out….and etc and suddenly there is no electricity and i check and check

the connections for everything,  nope.  None.  and i thought…wouldn't you know…i have used up all the electricity with this…but i call across the road Margie and her too…no electricity, so ok….  i finish up stuff and do the evening Goat things,  give Water  and decide to brush Tay.  She isn't into this kind of physical violation…brushing.  But she did well,  me hanging on to her collar and her controlling her anxiety and i brushed out pounds of her hair,  pulling it off the brush and stuffing it into a grocery bag and when she became  intolerant, i quit.  

 

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she spent the rest of the evening until just a few minutes ago in her Sacred Space under the porch.

 

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Apricots.  In this heat they fall as they become heavy with rippening and i set them here.  Eating through the days,  one at a time,  5 or 6 a day,  in the heat they are almost fermented.

 

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Feral is in the shop

 

 

 

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8 responses to “feelin GOOD”

  1. johnson.mixedupmedia.margaret@gmail.com Avatar
    johnson.mixedupmedia.margaret@gmail.com

    Glad you’re feelin good Grace. My Kelpie dog Ginny just about tolerates a brush!! Little Terrier Lola loves it, cats hate it. Shetland Pony (Kira} loves it. Which reminds me I need to trim her mane. She is growing her winter coat atm and she is looking gorgeous!!
    Apricots fermenting on the chair, you could try making vinegar. Cut in half cover in water, pips too, add a bit of sugar. Keep fruit under water and cover with cloth. After 2 weeks decant liquid into bottle, leave for a few weeks, voila vinegar!!
    I just made 5 litres of apple cider vinegar, and am about to make some elderberry vinegar.
    You have some lovely fabrics, love your clothmaking. Marg oxox

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Hope you don’t have to spend too long on the fold out but I’m sure it was worth it to get that room cleaned and I’m glad you didn’t expire in the heat and glad your electric returned.
    Feral is fierce and beautifully mysterious.

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  3. Nanette Avatar

    I used to smear just a little cat food on the fridge door when I wanted to do anything invasive to Mirrhi……she’d stand there licking happily and I’d do what I needed to. She associated it all with something good and comes happily now to be brushed or whatever. Dog spit wipes easily off the fridge.
    I’ll be imagining you sleeping happily and content in your spacious new bedroom.
    Thanks for looking out for Brian, for all us rained -on creatures xx

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  4. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    That kind of cleaning i always liked to do naked so i could move free and sweat without my clothes sticking to me, then a cool shower. To have had warm apricot liqueur after, oh how luscious this sounds.

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  5. Saskia Avatar

    A friend once mentioned how she would only tackle certain chores when she truly felt the urge….made the task so much easier
    Something I have always remembered and try to apply
    How is Tay coping with this heat?

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  6. Carolyn Petersen Avatar
    Carolyn Petersen

    Feral…………….Wow.

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  7. Martine Bos Avatar

    Vacuming in that heat………..
    you must be crazy!

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  8. Hazel Avatar

    I’m watching and watching all of this…in awe & wonder. As you unearth, peel away layers, reshape, revision it all & self. Really Something to witness & imagine “What if?”.

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