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a few days ago.   With the Storks Bill that we pulled to make the vegetable garden in the Wall Beds at A.   When i was pulling them,  all the dye pots were still at the storage unit down the road.  They lay there, the Storks Bill,   a few days , in Sun.  Drying.   Seeing this,  those days in a row,  caused me to go to that storage unit and climb through (literally)  the stuff and pull up some of the dye pots.  Bring them here.  In my head,  i just said, bring them home.  But changed it on typing it in.  Bring them here.  

Alyssia had cut off a pair of mittens for crawling gloves.  Emrie didn't seem to mind.  Those along with her Chinese shoes made it easier to navigate on the rough cut gravel.   She likes the game of In/Out.  We did that.  With the plant leaves and stems,  two root clumps.  Early the next morning,  before any heat,  i put them simmer on the stove.  In the enamel pot and the aluminum.   The copper pot had remained hidden in Storage.  Both those pots were eventually put into the large copper tub, with a single scrap of cloth tied to a piece of bark with string.  3 days in SUN.   I had hopes.  Vivid green.  But, as it goes,  a soft and vague bronze green….and though not vivid,  i see it,  feel it,  to be the Ground Cloth for much to come.  Today i began a new cloth with it…center,  on some of Deb Lacativa's cloth magic.   I look at this pic,  look at the pronounced veins of my arm…how they are so similar to the marks of the string on that cloth scrap.  

in the morning will pour the liquid into a gallon glass jar and tie and submerge more cloth.   Set to the Sun.  It's such a fine and gentle kind of science.

 

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27 responses to “science”

  1. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Grace -so happy you went to get the dye pots. so happy to see the three of you-and the fourth taking the picture. Making. In your posts from the other place you were always making, watching, seeing, telling.
    And here you are–making, watching, seeing, telling……….Love to you!!!

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  2. Michelle Slater Avatar

    SO–the new way holds on…good. Even better to be back to dyeing!

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  3. julie Avatar

    Those soft rolls of baby…irresistable.

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    So good to see Tay looking absolutely fine …

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  5. Patty Avatar

    That tender whorl of baby hair on Emrie’s head. From 3,000
    miles away my heart lifts. Dyeing, grandma’s wisdom to grand girl.

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    This “gentle kind of science” for me is the best, simple glass jar, liquid and foraged land gifts, cloth submerged sometimes in the liquid, sometimes, foraged materials bundled tight, tied and cloth bundle quietly put into glass jar- Sun is the alchemist…waiting is the process and wonders are the results…never to early to have an apprentice to learn the old ways and Emrie is quite attentive.

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    so cosy….animal…plant…water…earth…and human…the jong and the wise one ( smile )

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  8. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    Are you ready for the cast iron dutch oven with cover?

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  9. Linda Avatar

    “bring them here”…. does it not feel like home yet?
    I think it must be lovely to be all moms there. I have my grand girl here with her baby and it always makes me think of what we have that we give to them. Things we have learned over the years that seem simple now but mean so much to them. We are blessed

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  10. Dakotah Avatar

    Fabulous photo…I can feel that play work interaction…precious moments

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar

    look forward to the day when you can say The Hill is home!

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  12. dee Avatar

    I love this picture… the textures (metal grate, wicker, croc shoe perforations, twigs, fur, the swirl of baby hair) and the story. Such a story. Happy to see Tay looking so relaxed. Happy to hear about you rummaging around in Storage. A necessary step for home building?

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  13. Tracy Leppold Avatar
    Tracy Leppold

    This might be helpful. Click the tiny map top right, then click your area. They’ll give you a list of local wild plants with pictures. http://calscape.org
    That baby is beautiful. Lovely chubby legs, dark brown eyes. I want to blow on her tummy and love her up. They’re so cute playing in out.
    We tend to focus on the tail end of snakes in wild California. Rattlers come in many colors to match terrain. You know that, you lived th the desert. Have fun with dye. It sounds like you’re starting to settle.

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  14. Martine Bos Avatar

    Oh little Emrie……….so good to see she’s happy playing…..

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    the other place yes. Here, everything is different. I ease into it, slow but sure.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    there are endless possibilities for the dye work. and everyday it changes. Yesterday, the stalks of one became purple???? what might that mean?

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    she is voluptuous in her babyness and all on the AIP diet, for the most part. It’s amazing what she is so so willing to eat, to self feed…those little fists….
    Her father El Salvadoran, compact, firm women. combine that with our end of it…she will be Something.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    Tay is great. really great. this year, 5 years and the change is notable…her maturity

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s begun to curl, the hair. Being a straight hair person, i celebrate. Won’t be curly like her mother’s, but it will be a soft, easy curl.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    the young is wise

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    dear you…it will cost a ton of postage to send…

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    yesterday, the 24th, we had the space to just sit. Talk. Be. All moms. Julian said something about it and we talked about how at some point we are just women. The mother part of it fading into the background, in to the history we share. But now, just Women. I am so grateful for it.

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    here, it’s all Love Work.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    Maybe it will happen.

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh eeee…the rummaging around…
    i literally climb over things. like, climb.

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    so interesting that there was NEVER a rattlesnake in New Mexico. not one. Not in the sandy Rio Grande Valley where i lived. The rattle snakes here are very easily identified. Even the very young ones, the size of less than a pencil.

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    she is. she is an exceedingly happy being. Learning learning, learning…She is Joy

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