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2 half broken slats in Sunny Ray and Jack Flash's yard.  Fixed.  Check all the fence line,  add a few screws here and there.   The hand drill is the Old Cowboy's father's.  I gave it some WD~40.  Slick as a whistle.  The really great collection of bits.  This and these will be for the kids.  They have dreams of building forts.  Julian is very interested in architecture.  Destiny prefers cardboard.   I'll get them a tool box.

 

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21 medium to large landscape pots.  on the Take for Sure list.  Other smaller pots,  some not pictured,  some ceramic.   3 enamel turkey roaster pans,  only bottoms, no lids.  One round blue enamel.  They are maybe's.  well,  really,  probablys.   So many uses.  All needing to be hosed out, set in SUN to dry.  

Last night a long awake time….How can this all Happen?   What about Puerto Rico?  Ringworm.  All the Me Too 's.  and Me Too.  How many are there?  of us?   This morning i stood there as the kittens ate their dry food breakfast.  The Mother was there,  looking through the slats.  Usually i leave after i put the dry food in the bowls.  She waited.  so she could come out and swat them away and have some for herself.  She watched me closely,  waiting for me to go.  I didn't so finally she so cautiously came out and sat just a small distance away.  She is a very beauty full cat.  Narrow egyptian face,  dark eyeliner.  Her body is a blend of a kind of bronze to copper and all over,  beauty Full circles.  Like an ocelot.  Legs striped dark grey.  I've never seen these colors and design.  Exotic.  a carrier of ringworm? or is it just the kittens?

it's cold in the mornings.  I should think about something to do about making a fire.  I CAN use the Eden Pure Heater,  but that's $.   I have no fire wood left from last year and my beloved Evan only delivers full cords.  Will i be here long enough for that?   There is the fallen Russian Olive in the Way Back.  Can get the chain saw and begin cutting that.  It's what i should do,  but don't want to.   Friday is the day i go through the Routine at Bill and Nelia's with Ember who will take my place.  Last day working there.  First time since i was 15,  not having a job.  

 

 

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15 responses to “fixing and gathering”

  1. Deb Avatar

    that last line. monumental. pivotal.
    your description of the mother cat brings the image of the little lost one to mind. the one who could pass for a gremlin.

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  2. grace Avatar

    in Tibetan Buddhism…the teaching of Milarepa…you invite the
    gremlins to tea.

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  3. grace Avatar

    monumental.
    i am afraid.

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    Me too … it is all of us

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    wow, your big move feels so imminent, my gypsy blood is stirring! me too & everyone I have known well enough to talk about it over the years in my circle of friends, man or woman, have all been touched by an inappropriate bully holding a position of authority, this is a time of revealing the dark underbelly of human nature to the light on so many levels

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  6. dee Avatar

    i’d kinda consider pulling up stakes and moving across a few states ‘a job’, but I hear you. Hope you get rid of that ringworm — it must be unnerving. I moved a lot as a kid and there were often trips to the ER on either side of a move — that’s how ungrounding it can be. So take good care!

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  7. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    I moved house once as a child. Twelve times as a married person. the number on this house is 12. I think I just want to STAY PUT now.

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  8. ali Avatar
    ali

    So many things to be afraid of when we’re human. I remember reading the advice once that we should do the thing that frightens us most. Don’t know if that helps!
    Have you tried castor oil on the ringworm?

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  9. saskia Avatar

    my dad had one of those hand driven drills, I wonder if it’s still in his shed; I’m doing an inventory of their worldy goods, mainly to record whatever stories there might be attached to the stuff for us, the 3 children (and who knows our children as well)

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  10. grace Avatar

    the courage to speak
    How might it change things….we’ll see.

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  11. grace Avatar

    the cats are at the center of all this…and remain so.
    interesting. 22 years here and nothing like this.

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  12. grace Avatar

    i though i would be here.

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  13. grace Avatar

    What frightens me most is things about animals….like the
    confusion of the move for the Goats, Taz and Tay. For me,
    not so much. But sometimes there is no separation between
    me and them. We are Same.
    no…castor oil…hmmmmmm….

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  14. grace Avatar

    i hope you keep the drill. I love the genius of tools

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