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first.....

 

a correction.  I got an email from Hilda who lives in Willard, NM which is just as much in the middle of nowhere as this is,  maybe even more,  and Hilda is who helped me identify the HUGE grasshopper last year as a Lubber.  Hilda pointed out that this is NOT lavender,  but rather Russian Sage.   And i Laughed,  because somewhere down the line, a long time ago i knew that,  but had just kept referring to it as Lavender in my mind until,  well,  i guess,  it became Lavender.  But it's NOT.  It's Russian Sage.   THANK YOU HILDA!!!!   I love how even tho i might not have a clue,  things are being kept track of here and noted and ....cleared up.  Smile and Happiness.

and then

i received a very nice note from Sue at Colourmart saying that this COBWEB silk is no longer offered as it was not a popular weight.  How WonderFULL was that...a response overnight even tho it wasn't what i'd hoped????????????????   so, ok.  don't know now what.   

 

 

Tay BARKED during the night and i got up....turned the "porch light" (for what it's worth, not much ) on...it looked like this

Finished.  Ready to mail.

 

and i realized that it wasn't at all the White at the very top edge.  I really like that a LOT.  it's like Clouds.    But rather it was the moment of transition from the blue to the orangyyellow.  So.

and for a while,  i'd had the feeling that there was something on the Rolodex that was important.   I had seen something on TV many years ago,  MANY,  about Wild Dogs of Africa.   And i remembered, prompted by the Rolodex that somewhere around was a National Geographic i had kept about them.  The Nat Geo did not refer to the thing i saw on TV which was overwhelmingly touching and difficult and BEAUTY FULL,  but it was what i had.  So i hunted it down.

 

 

 

and there are HUGE differences,  the first being that the Wild Dogs of Africa are not dogs at all but an individual species that we see as dog like.  And two,  i don't mean to romantisize Ta y.  She's a dog.   But she has behaviors that take me back to these Beings....the mouthing,  the pack intensity,  the long stick like legs interwoven with bodies, heads and legs.   I see what i was looking for...that if she could have it Her Way,  we would be like this.  This pic above which is how the pack CELEBRATES  at the end of the day....  

and it helps me with understanding what i am asking of her when i say No Bite,  No Feet!   How i am asking her to stop expressing something that is very strong inside her that has total different meaning to her and to me.