it really is. 72 days. 72. and What? to "show for it"?????, i am thinking. but anyway....
so i drove today two towns away to pick up this milking stantion. FINALLY. i had called this guy around Christmas. Yes. he could build me one. OK. we agree. and since then, about every few weeks or so, i'd call..."how's it going?" and well, "any day now". Today, FINALLY, he called and i could pick it up. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and i GO. and yes. a good strong practical stantion. Plenty of room for a goat and even a person, sitting on the edge. Metal and strong, for a buck. and i visited with him for almost 2 hours. he and his wife are Goat People that my daughter had connections with. and visiting that 2 hours, i understood how it took this long. they have maybe 130 something goats, he thinks. they have chickens, turkeys. they have llamas and alpacas. some sheep. he spends 6 hrs a day milking and storing the milk. they have a grandson and his wife and child living with them recently. they have a daughterinlaw who died from cancer. they have...they have...they have.
and i listened and i looked. and i came away with this stantion, all new and strong and painted green and understood a little more about Life. so, O K and good.
and i spent some time looking at all this STUFF out there. in the Albatross as i am fond of calling it. in the what i guess is most a Pole barn. where 3/4 is partitioned off for the Goats bedrooms...2 of them...seperated, and one not being used at all in the moment because of Buckwheat being moved in to that end but where the Maternity Unit will be in a few weeks....Oh Jeez. do i get RID of a lot of this stuff? i need the SPACE. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
and then.
Then........there is this. and last night i dreamed. i won't tell the details but it was about the usual confusion of things and people and creatures, but......................THE DALAI LAMA was there. and there FOR me. and then Alz B came into that scene and some small spotted creature...animal type and as always, the children, the babies and in the dream, as usual, i was just trying to figure it all out.
