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these   lables.    There is something about them that is so appealing.    ??????    i got a box of them.    for no reason.   something about a Mobile.   also for Emrie to draw on.    then…make a mobile of hers.    They make me feel good.

a couple things about all that yesterday.   first….i would so much MISS the connection with responses….the WE that happens,  the US.   that we all go along Together

and then,  there's a so strong sense that i am just Missing Something….not seeing,   something in plain sight…?????  

i went around,  as i do,  every day,  reading all our blogs and felt as i always do…a part of people's lives…that receiving the stories of  Our days,   i am a    Part of that.    This is     GOOD.   am grateful.   very.

it has been raining for 24 hours.   Steady downpour.   except miraculously,  as often happens,  a let up around 11 am and then again around 4 pm.    the miracle being that this is close enough to FEED times.   Today…only a let up…still a soft rain falling but letting up enough to do what needed to be done.   it was Feed delivery day.  We go through 4 bales a month of grass hay.  Ordinarily Jenny is responsible for bringing,  but due to circumstance now,   can't.   What to do?   Alyssia brought 2 bales in the back of her SUV.   The feed store guys are great at tricky loading.   They stood them upright,  squashed them in.   I stood ready at the feed shed between Jack Flash and Nogal….door shoveled and freed up  ready to OPEN     the little sled in position to pull the bale down the hill from her vehicle so she could flip it over into the shed.    YES and it was done.   She drove up with the other bale and Emrie and i walked up with the sled.    On to the Curry house where half of the feed is stored and fed from.  Repeat with the sled for Alyssia while Emrie and i measured out and fed the evening pellets.  We had to empty the Bowls of rainwater.  We were like clock work.   Not a lot of conversation,  just a lot of Doing,   the 3 of us…one 77,  one 33 and one 5.   a team.

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10 responses to “this day”

  1. maria Avatar
    maria

    here my day is started it is gray clouded cold close to frozen 0 to 3 C during the day for 7 days now it is day 3
    these “labels” so beautiful good stuff to created wonderful things
    a mobile of drawings ” listining hearing seeing etc….
    this spiral cloth lovely the ocean the land, the earthliving things, tunder and rain ,lichtning even the wind i see in this
    particular those year numbers it is like a ” code ”
    ( 2022) good for a label

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  2. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I admire your strong team, Grace. I must admit that I’m envious.. My husband and I couldn’t decide where to place the Christmas tree.
    Had my hip replacement almost 3 weeks ago. Got some vacuuming and laundry done today with very little pain, for once in over a year. I’m a good team.
    I’ll decide where the tree will go tomorrow. Too much pain to get the decorations last year, but the lights on it were pretty. I’ll decorate a bit this year. Go team.
    I am enjoying your beautiful and loving quilt piecing. Exceptionally beautiful!
    XOXO

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  3. Deb G Avatar

    I think there is something very valuable in being able to get glimpses of other people’s lives (although I am not as good as I’d like to be about visiting others). Maybe this overly optimistic, but I hope that the more we see how people live, how we go about our lives…the more we take care.
    Still cold and sunny here, 30 degrees at the moment and will be colder with the wind chill. The wind comes down from the Frasier glacier in Canada, along the river and across the bay.

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  4. Nancy Avatar

    I too love those tags…as you could guess! I’ve gone through large packages of them and I’ve bought used ‘tags’ in a variety of sizes (like the teeny ones I use on the CMB project)…and I have other sizes too. To me they are organizing office supplies and art in one. If I could…no, rephrase that…maybe I will draw some “funny little birds” and sprinkle those about too 🙂
    I also love the idea of an art rolodex…flip art! haha Or, a book in the round? flip, flip, flip
    https://www.amazon.com/Rolodex-66704-Rotary-Holds-Cards/dp/B00ID20RVO/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1A5QFNP74X15U&keywords=rolodex+card+holder&qid=1670189558&sprefix=rolo%2Caps%2C303&sr=8-5
    This spiral feels like Spring to me, which combined with your tree of yesterday, feels like hope to me.
    As far as Blogland…I love circling around to those I visit…reading, learning, sighing at the beauty or in empathy, laughing or getting inspired…and even discovering ways I may want to try things (Think of how many of us now want to try a log cabin block or two!!) – in both cloth/art and in life. I love seeing works of hand-making, places I am not, may never get to see or may be inspired to see…I like seeing the weather all over, making it more real than any news report could…
    I am grateful for you (and everyone) in this circle…together we are strong! And yes, a good team 🙂

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  5. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Yes! You were/are a great team!! And as Nancy commented..readers, commenters, spiraling around the blogs are a team too! My center square was Jude, then grace, then on to anyone who comments.. I dont comment on many blogs, but the team spirits are abundant!

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    like a code. yes, isn’t it.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    i haven’t had a tree for SOOOOOOOlong, but if i had one
    now…the Lights would probably all that i would want.
    i love the lights.
    for 3 weeks, this is GOOD. You and your new Hip. It takes
    time. Have known several people and it takes time. Sing to
    it.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    somehow…All lives become our Own? a common Life? just variations on the theme?
    I love the visual to your words of the Wind traveling

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    OH!…i hope you DO!…your birds…here and there!!!!!
    How great would this be???????????????
    i like thinking of it this way. We ARE a good Team.
    for sure. We ARE.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    YES!!!, very much. so much. and it includes ALL of US.

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