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in the Garden at campsite B.   Borage.  I'd planted SOME.  This One.   What happened to the rest of the some,  a mystery.  But this One….O and eeeeeeeeeeee.   Many many blossoms.  Annuals that readily reseed themselves.  This i hope.  But for now,  i am full of happiness.

 


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time to change it up.   The last time Sunny,  the 1983 Toyota pick up was on the road was when we evacuated to Gridley.  Sunny pulled the Goat Boat with all the Doe  Goats.  Upon return,  he was driven up the Hill and parked.    That was last November.

Some time,  close after that,  i went to start him and his battery was dead.  A new battery.  but then,  a while later,  when i decided that i needed to get it together,  i went to start him again and no deal.  New battery is dead.  

i went in to the place just down on the corner,  like 3 minutes  away.  At the corner of Olive Hwy and Old Olive.  Told him my story and he said he only works on diesel.  I said,  yes,  but can you look.  I know work needs to be done to get him Emissions acceptable in California.   like a catalytic converter.  Could he just look and tell me what i will need.  Please.

yes.  he goes to his wall calendar and marks me on June 21.  That was sometime in early April.   It is now this coming Friday.  I am going to remember what Wood Judy taught me,  way back in New Mexico.  It's very Navajo,  as was Wood Judy.  You say what you need and the person says No.   You repeat.  What you need.  the person says No again.  You stand there.  Silently,  looking down at the ground,  say nothing.  Time passes.  The person says….ok.  and what you need happens.

i'll try it.  Don't know if Navajo stuff works here.  It might.  But if nothing else,  will try to get him to give me the name of someone who might be willing to work on an old desert truck.  That would be good enough.

Can you see her?  near the center….I was checking fluids and that hood hadn't been opened in months.  A very perfect Black Widow.  The first i've seen here.   Hanging from the hood above,  two fine egg sacs.   I love Black Widows…such kind and civil spiders,  never all the drama of other kinds…just still and peacefully waiting.  I'll find an old can…they like metal…scoot her egg cases in there and then,  hopefully her.  Carry off into this forest.  

 

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18 responses to “the Going”

  1. Patty Avatar

    An old woman told me no matter where you are a spider is watching you.
    They’re happy in your neighborhood. And I think Navajo world view works everywhere. May the car gods smile on you!

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    Love borage flowers in salads, that blue is so clear, your black widows look a lot like our redbacks here in the Land Down Under, they can bite but are shy, preferring to hang out in neglected corners & under old piles of things.
    I have a lot of trouble asking anyone to do anything so if someone says no I just smile & say ‘no worries, I’ll ask someone else!’

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  3. Michelle Slater Avatar

    BEAUTIFUL BORAGE !!! Save seeds and spread them. Navajo wisdom and ways are sensible and true. Something good will come out of this effort Friday and I’m left with the lovely image of you carrying the black widow and her many offspring into the forest.

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  4. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Next time disconnect the battery when you will not be using the car/truck. Or start and run engine each month for some period of Time–others will know more of this than I do on how long it takes to charge up. Borage is a delight in the garden. Tastes like cucumber.

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  5. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Do you eat the flowers or the prickly leaves of the borage?

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  6. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    Does your car work?

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  7. dee Avatar

    I guess it goes without saying that the spider needs relocating before any asking of car assistance happens. I don’t usually mind spiders but that one gives me the willies.

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  8. cgReno Avatar
    cgReno

    OHHHHH Black Widow spiders. Beautiful and if you are bitten take care. Two years ago a black widow made a home in the sleeve of my winter coat hanging in the closet, sometime during spring/summer/early fall.
    When I put the coat on I was bitten and very ill for many days. Now I check every piece of clothing that has been hanging for very long…..Please take care, these beautiful sisters can cause great discomfort.

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  9. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    The flowers are the most generally eaten part of the borage plant. The very very young leaves (‘way before they get prickly), eaten raw by itself or mixed into a chopped salad, are also a boon for lactacting mothers.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    in the end, it worked that way. A smile upon SunnyTruck.
    i left the hood open and in the morning, she was gone.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    sometimes that’s not possible.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    she left on her own. I took the egg sacs down to that
    magic tree.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…all these things i know very well. it’s the DOING
    of them. I am so good at saying “tomorrow….”
    But i need to begin using the truck.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    we will. haven’t yet.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Honda car, yes. it’s a 1986.
    it’s the Truck, toyota 1983, that is at issue in
    the moment.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    black widows were common in New Mex. I am used to them.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    Helloooooo!….yes. I do take care. Shake boots out,
    look first before inserting hand, that kind of thing.
    This is the first black widow i’ve seen here. Its
    the Huntsman that come to mind when being cautious
    thank you for Coming!!!!!! thank you for referring to
    them as sisters…..

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  18. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    You’ve a way.

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