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the end of more tomorrow

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this is the last pic of a post for today.  But i can't do the words for all of it,  so just this.

i went to Alyssia's house in town.  left at 10;30  and it was 90 degrees already.  I hung out with Emrie…Julian was off in his other world of Home School in his room.   He didn't come out.  So,   it was me and Emrie and their 4 salvaged chickens out there,  Tay on a strong long lead,  Alyssia's two dogs in the front yard,  the stray cat who is no longer stray and her 3 kittens closed off in Alyssia's bedroom and Alyssia went off grocery shopping.   I did  3 loads of laundry in her OH SO EXCELlent washer and dryer she got on the Buy Sell and Trade Page.   i cannot tell you the JOY of this,  the washing machine  which is EXCEllent and her HOT water that never happens at the laundromat….my Clothes….my SHEET AND PILLOW CASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and she returned and went through her routine of decontaminating everything with alcohol spray rub and we divided off my stuff and i finally left and came home at 3 something and it was 102 degrees and all Goats were ok  i unloaded the ice and the food and ate a tamale and walked down to give Water at the Wall garden and pinched with my fingers,  sad leaves from the green bean plants,  talked with them a while,   walked back up and gave water at B Garden where there are Black Eyed Susans AlMOST ready to bloom

and another day disappeared….so fast.  and she was able to find everything…baking powder and tahini.

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27 responses to “the end of more tomorrow”

  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    days, I am hardly catching a glimpse of them. blogging ties me to them for at least an hour or so.

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  2. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I could imagine this … such care taken … and hot water laundry!
    your cloth home … iconic … with Talkie’s egg, dated … so much

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  3. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    It’s the time of year when I struggle with not having a dryer. It’s not warm enough in the house for things to dry quickly without heat, but I won’t put it outside because of the pollen.

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  4. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    I Wonder about those bean plants. What a day you had. You must be exhausted. Time here seems to melt too. One day is the next before I catch my breath.

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  5. Patty M Avatar
    Patty M

    It’s daily rain here so cool. Still 6pm arrives and I don’t even glance at my to do list. I drift day to day as the lists pile up.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    using the dryer was/is GREAT!…to get things caught up.
    From now on, i can bring them home to hang outside in
    the tree and sheet on fence. it’s interesting to me,
    how important laundry has become. The deep happiness
    of being caught up. i listened just now to news…a
    man somewhere that has a portable laundromat for
    Homeless.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    will go down this morning, see what the next step is.
    will also plant more in a large landscape pot.
    I love green beans.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i had left the cloth on the Everything Table when i left
    for town. on return when i went out to feed Caroline and
    the kids, collected the egg from Talkie’s latest nest behind the feed bin there…just set it down when i came
    inside. A little while later noticed it like this.
    It changed the story of this Cloth. Now i’m not sure
    what the story is.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i just had a weird experience….sitting here, reading
    morning news, listening to NPR stuff, going back and
    forth to Spirit cloth looking at that photograph of
    both sides simultaneously, looking at how you had chosen
    that cloth for the blog image for today, back to the
    news, then to thinking about yesterday and then
    suddenly i was trying to remember somethings so i could
    continue following that thread of thought but
    couldnt “think it”…i couldn’t hold these vague fast
    moving partial images long enough to even know what it was
    i was trying to think????????????
    i think it must have been a dream
    or

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and really, other than it was 102 degrees, the
    day i spend with Emrie there, at HER house, is
    what makes SENSE. Everything we say and do
    MAKES SENSe in the exact moment. We built towers.
    Folded clothes. played with bowls of water and
    tea pots and these strange little jelly like balls
    that are at first dry but when added to water
    plump up into pea size rainbow color balls…their
    soft then. We did all kinds of things with them
    including throwing them at each other. We fed
    the chickens pieces of over ripe pear and squated
    to watch closely how they use their beaks…that
    at some point in their previous lives were DEbeaked
    and i told her about how her great grampa Tom and
    i had been to India in the Peace Corp and had to
    learn about debeaking chickens…she couldn’t think
    of anything to say to stories like this, so she
    just listens and watches my face as i tell her and then
    says Lets Play Copy and she makes a face that i repeat
    this goes on and then she switches to Tell me all your
    names and i tell her how i am Mom to her New Nana, Gramma to Alyssia etc She can’t think of anything to say
    to this either, so after a while says lets go play
    blocks.
    It is energizing. But i sleep deep.

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  11. jude Avatar
    jude

    these are my days lately. I find it hard to explain. I am just not sure

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  12. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    She doesn’t have to say anything. she is rooting. silent deeply meaningful work in progress.
    Every time I do laundry I rejoice you can too. And also that you have time with the kids – yes both even if Julian declines to appear – you are in their space where they live and as part of their life flow. I rejoice a lot at this. You become more tethered to a larger Place – larger frame, larger human root bed.

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  13. Kirsten Avatar
    Kirsten

    Nothing like the smell of clean clothes especially if they smell like they have been washed.
    A few years ago, a friend of mine told me about her time in the Peace Corp in Azerbaijan where they had running water but not all the time. She spoke of hearing the water click on (apparently very loud) and then one would run to wash dishes, clothes, showers until it quit. She didn’t realize her clothing wasn’t that clean until sitting in the airport to come back to the US and noticed her clothes really smelled.
    Enrie sounds like such an interesting little soul. One always wonders how much they are absorbing and will remind you of it in the future.

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  14. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Wow, Grace. Just, wow.

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  15. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    That sounds like my apartment when I went to University of Washington. I would be all soaped up, and the water would turn off.

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  16. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace what a great story on yet another hard day. The simple joy of clean laundry ( dare I say how envious I am?) and a young girl, one of the littlest of the tribe, who shows such interest, curious and playful. Such a gem she is.

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  17. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I will get back to you, but where have you found alcohol? I am making hand sanitizer for us and family, but stores here don’t seem to have rubbing alcohol.
    I’m so tired, even though I get sleep. I dreamt that my husband got on a subway and disappeared.

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  18. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I didn’t know you were in the Peace Corps .. I love that! You are such a gentle soul .. I am so happy that you have this amazing opportunity to nurture lasting memories with all this family you find yourself surrounded with. I think it is all just so great .. Great that you can spend the morning doing laundry at your granddaughters while being silly with your great granddaughter. It’s everything!!!

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  19. sparrow Avatar
    sparrow

    TAHINI…

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    that’s how it feels, yes.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the lists have a different meaning…tho
    still
    lists

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i love your words here….she is rooting
    our root bed
    and yes. Julian. i always go to his door, his threshhold and say Hey.
    he says Hey back.
    We are SomeThing, him and me, me and him

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    so much LOVe this story. our clothing. our bedding.
    i think….how it is if that is not Possible at ALL,
    Ever….how would that feeeeeeel
    I hope she’s making some kind of picture form in her mind that might serve her as she enters the Future that we are giving

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    she is. she GIVES just by Being

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    she found it in some really odd place…maybe the
    Chinese stuff store?, i’ll ask her
    oh…..eeeee….the dreams

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yup…peace corps. 1968. Madhya Pradesh, India
    and yes. it’s all just pretty much MORE than i could
    imagine…the washing machine whirs, me and Emrie
    be crazy, nose to nose and dogs and chickens and Alyssia gone off in her Ninja shopping outfit coming back with EVERYthINg on my list PLUS an avacado

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and even
    TAHINI. She found Tahini. Bless her heart.

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