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Waffling and FULL to the Brim

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from the glass jar of them up from Garden at B.    will use ones on left for shirt i found in that back room.  But looking through the jar….i had the urge to bury it somewhere,  deep enough to not burn if Fire comes here.   For Emrie someday….she might be interested?   Care about their existence?   then it went on….i could bury SOME different things.  Make a map of the sites.   Someday she could dig things up.   She might be interested,  or not.   But if she was…..              I love the plasticy ones…is it Bakelite?  ….the artdeco geometric style?    And, of course the abalone,  mother of pearl.

and then….LaceLady had sent a link to  Box Show   Point Reyes   ShaSha Higby Cows in Cave     and i then went on to Utube to watch  Clouds of Fish.   Today,  if there was anyone i could BE,   it would be her.    

i have an enormous roll of copper wire out There.   What if i had a solder gun?  to build FRAMES with the wire?    I cant be her,  but i could build things?   

By tomorrow,  this all will have become memory.    if that.

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21 responses to “Waffling and FULL to the Brim”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace)))love your idea of burying treasures on The Hill with a map for the young ones!

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  2. sparrow karas Avatar
    sparrow karas

    sucha great post thanks
    ever-so
    xo

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  3. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    a treasure map … who wouldn’t love that?

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    if I had enough thick wire, I would build a greenhouse. or a yurt.
    what-iffing is some times enough.

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I hope you do bury your buttons and other special goodies for Emrie and even Julian…your wonderful drawing ability will create a most fascinating and delightful treasure map.
    This summer I’ve been working on a treasure of my own to give to my daughters for their birthday in October. My twin girls turn 51 and last year, on their 50th, they got a goody box with 5 special gifts, one for each decade. This year, it will be a wee gift but my hope is that it will be a treasure for each of them.
    Over the course of this summer, I have dyed cloth from the foraged findings in this new place and I have also gone thorough my small stash of dyed cloths. What I have done is sort through the cloths, picking out 10 pieces for each daughter. I’ve cut them down to a manageable size, 9″ across by 4″ wide. Two piles of 10 cloths, stacked one over the other and when folded, they make a lovely little booklet. The only stitching required will be a long stitch composed of several strands of floss stitched in the middle of the booklet to bind it together. (Stitching is not something I do with any finesse but dyeing cloth is my deepest love so this is an easy project for me.)
    I made such a booklet for myself a few years ago using my turkey basting needle !! to stitch it together and it has become part of my weekly ritual; right before going to bed, I hold my little booklet and “read” the pages, remembering where I foraged and what I foraged or used to create the colors and markings, my very own personal petroglyph.
    Each cloth has been dyed with assorted foraged plants, blossoms, stems, bark and other materials: goldenrod, sunflower blossoms, Spanish broom blossoms and stems, apple leaves, sumac leaves and stems, rosemary, lavender (not much color but great scent) walnut, acorns, compost materials from veggie scraps to coffee grouds and tea, pomegranate skins, red onion skins, geranium blossoms, Chinese Pistache leaves (from our previous home),and assorted rusty bits and steel wool strands.
    It is my hope that these little booklets will feel like treasure to my girls but most importantly, it is my hope that my girls feel my joy in what I do, the love of foraging and dyeing cloth and my love for them, for they have always encouraged me in my cloth work.

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  6. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    Your cloth book sounds wonderful, as does the idea of “reading” it weekly.

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  7. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    I love old buttons. What I’d give to have the huge jar of them my grandma let me play with as a child.
    If you can bend the wire, you don’t need a soldering iron to make anything with it. Just bend and twist and make sure the ends are crimped securely out of the way when you’re done

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  8. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Marti~Marti~Marti…amazing.

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  9. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace~ Oh those boxes! I will have to search out ‘fish’. These are wonderful buttons, love the teeny rectangle and think a jar of them deep in the earth with a treasure map would be amazing. All of your buried treasures could be something different…a cloth story, a drawing, trinkets…a photograph. Such a fun idea you have here!
    I’d love to live in a yurt 🙂

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    am still trying to find out how deep…or approx. cause who
    knows, really, but how deep…to be able to remain after a
    fire….

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    dear Ever-So You, sparrow,

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    any idea
    just an idea of a map…i love

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    what-iffing needs to be enough…there is so MUCH

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i’m trying to find a time of day when i can take pics of
    the photographs you sent…from this laptop screen….
    if i can, i’ll put here. The booklets are LOVE.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…but there is also the urge to meld them…as in
    with Heat

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    when i set out from Michigan…it was a yurt that i would build
    in the back 40 of friend Jane’s place in Oregon.

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  17. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    we buried the copper wire cable that carried the 12V electricity up from the Pelton Wheel at the bottom of the gully up to the storage batteries under the house, we dug a 1m (3′) deep trench. The wires survived the two fires that went through the property the following year.

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  18. Jacqui Avatar
    Jacqui

    Last year facing the eminent destruction of my beautiful garden and 20 years of building it, and all the grief about that, I used an old book and a stick of graphite and took leaf rubbings from every tree and plant in this place. I took flowers in Autumn and scraped their coloured goodness onto the pages. I made ink from gum bark. I feel this book contains the record, the evidence of my own hand in co-creating this place. Like cave drawings I suppose.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i read these words and with each, the visual appeared…i watched
    as you marked with your stick of graphite, the scraping of colour
    and i watched as the BoOK came to be
    any more that you might tell of this…or anyThing…
    so
    so
    gladly
    received Thank You, Jacqui….so so much

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  20. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Something like this has been on my mind for a long time…not because it is happening now but someday I might not have the care and tending of my garden.

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  21. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    What a gift for Emrie…

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