it has been Some Week. and i hesitate to put it all here because this blog is about Cloth, or, is supposed to be. but ..... Cloth turns out to be Life?, it seems................... and this is Life too. Jude's Contemporary boro 2....SO much. aside from the denim jumpers, aside from the Experiment that i have not photographed, there is this. this is the futon cover from the other Boro class. looking for the pic i was surprised to see it was dated 10-8-2010! there are weak spots. so....these i will mend in this Boro class:
here it is then
i tend to sit on this end and seams have pulled. so i will mend them.
and the Diaries Cloth. during this week, i have found myself coming to the stitching here over and over, for just moments at a time. one line of kantha, two. three. just the rhythm of it. i am down into the Toad eggs, almost to where the "world as it really is" is. almost finished with this side.
What will that feel like?
ok. so then, this is the part that i don't know. "Weather" here has always been fairly predictable in my 20 years or so, 17 years here, in this Place. now, Not. this week has been very much like our monsoon season in July. Storms, electical magic shows, rain, but with the addition of very High Winds....which is new. and i am living in the company of 14 sentient beings that i cannot bring
in
the dogs. the cat. i can call them In. but the goats....no.
so, since i have made a commitment to them, by penning them here.......i need to do the Best I Can to provide a place where they are sheltered.
and amidst all That, it seems that because of the great capitalistic sense in this country, all of the states alfalfa was sold to Texas because of their drought. and so, since this spring has been not the usual spring, there is NO alfalfa to be had. Not a Leaf. i tried to feed them grass hay that i COULD buy, Wheat Grass, that i COULD buy, and as i fed in the early morning, it was as if i was throwing NOTHING over the fence...they looked at me with such amazement...."What???? where is our FOOD?" they were bewildered.
add to that that i had put off doing something about the babies horn buds. here it turns into more than you want to know. but it Was. i couldn't decide and finally decided to take them to the vet. made the appointment. $40/goat. well...a LOT, but ok. then, by by some urge of intuition, went to talk with the County Extension Agent....who said to try the Other Vet. long story short, $5 per goat because he is into 4H here. $5 for disbudding/neutering the bucks. so, i loaded them up, two babies and took them, them innocent and with little horn buds and it turned out that because of my putting it off so long, the usual only modestly terrorizing cauterization needed to be a Totally Terrorizing sawing proceedure. the little buck more so than the little doe. and they have stitches that i can remove in 10 days which is the 19th. ok.
so .................... i am learning. so much. WHY?, i wonder?????? but it IS what it IS and i need to do the very Best I can. amidst this, they are loving beings. very loving beings. I open the door in the morning and one of them is like this
one of them, can you see her?, one of them is watching for me.
amidst this, i stitch. and realize more and more that Mending is really really, so much about Everything. Everything.
and as i am outside tonight, i see that different things have decided to grow here. how interesting.
What IS this? i don't know. new.
it's all new.
