and it IS. and it wasn't because there was anything profound to think or say, but just a dilema about using DRAWING in a cloth. that's all. i would like to incorporate simple faces...woman's face in the next cloths i make. Woman and Earth. and i really would like to have a simple ink image of the human face and the rest be represented with color. But this proves harder than i Imagine it. How to make it seamless????
So, since part of the day Friday and then all Sat Sun and today, the fence guys have been here. Of course it all is more complicated than anyone guessed and of course it is very HOT so they must come in and out for ice and relief, and then some more stuff, and then just as i was thinking there might be a break...Yet Another little goat is born. This one to Grace. a single. but a very strong and adept little buckling already. Yes, a buck. oh...eee. BUT he is very elegant. I don't know a color to call him. At first he looked all black. But as time has passed he seems a kind of black/grey/brown...so maybe walnut?, in spanish, nogal....so maybe that is his birth name, Nogal. He was born this afternoon to Grace who did Very Well as did he. And i'll tell you more than you need to know because it emphasizes the singular personalities of the goats. When her placenta finally plopped out, it was substantial. And as it is, she began to consume it inbetween licking and muttering sweet things to her baby. She consumed and consumed. She gagged and consumed. She rested and consumed some more. By this time, with the others, they gave up. ENOUGH. But not. She continued and since i was sitting out there to see how the rest of the herd were feeling about Yet Another Baby, when she was diverted for a few minutes by visitors, i took the last chunk of it and flipped into a bucket. To make a long story short, she cried and cried, as if i'd taken one of her babies and did not stop until i dumped the glob back onto the straw where she immediately FINISHED it up. gagging all the while, but following her Imperative. DONE. oh, eeeeeeeeeeeeee AND other good news is that a home for 4 of the little wethers, the neutered bucks, has appeared. They have 4 children in grade school. Perfect. So Sunny Ray, Darth Vader, Inky and one Dado will go. Maybe tomorrow. If not soon. Perfect.
so...here is where i am today. More dilemma's than even the face......I really want to get away from the Personal images, not having much luck with this one yet. How does that Happen????? hmmmm.
there have been many fragments placed and taken away. STILL very much un decided. Her hair will be stitched and will flow out and into some kind of a circle that embraces the whole. The thought in the moment is that in her hair will be lizards and birds. The lizards are again, a personal symbol and may or may not appear. And that whole right side......What to do? I like it empty, but that is not the way of a cloth.
So...that's today and it's becoming dusk and i need to ready everything in case i need to be up in the night with Them. I left the door to the Albatross open. I spread straw everywhere and put Nogal in the favored corner of newborns where Grace set up her SPACE. In a perimiter around them, i spread the birth towels in a semi circle. As it becomes dark, the rest will want to be in there. It's where they all sleep. Things might go smoothly. OR there might need to be changes. So, i want to be Ready.
So, That's Today.
