the google logo melting...how many of us in this country really care.....?
I spent most of the day stitching. Nothing much to see because it was Invisible Stitch...the sky, which is almost finished.
the patterned canyon and then the foothills tentatively stitched. And then...the dark mouth of the Arroyo where the lizards are coming from. A strand and a half of hair. More hair needed to show the work of Wind. Slow Cloth.
In between i went Out and sat, closing my eyes and Visualizing this Place first, then moving out slowly, i went toward the east of this continent because that's the direction i came from, to the ocean then and i Visualized all the places i know about that are divided by this body of water. I Visualized everyone who writes here and at Jude's, them, in their Places. I did Meta.
Thelma of Mike and Thelma the now defunct Native Plant Nursery, brought me three one gallon pot trees. 2 Vitex or Chaste Trees and a third which they think is a pear. I had asked a while back if they had any trees or large bush beings left. At the time they said no, but here they are today. The pear....i'm not sure about. I'll plant it but i will choose to do nothing that people do to save fruit from insects. The two Vitex... i have one out in the Middle Oasis. They grow well, require next to nothing and bloom all summer if you clip off the dried blooms...Purple...for Prince i'm thinking....and BEES LOVE LOVE LOVE them. I want to put one of the Vitex right out from the front porch in what used to be a place i grew various things but now is a runway of Tay's. She wouldn't understand any plants, but a small tree/bush she will go around. And it will provide late afternoon shade for the chairs under the Old Apricot in case i ever fix them.
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the third pound cake. It's not really this shape. But the collapsed center, yes. Better today than last time but still, collapsed. I was thinking that i could pretend that this is on purpose, and use the dented middle as a kind of Bowl for fruit?...the juice would seep all around the sides? eee. I have decided that it must be that twice now i have substituted fresh lemon juice, 2 T for 2 Ts of the milk. I like the hint of lemon. But maybe i will get lemon extract. Keep the milk it's correct amount. Substitute the lemon extract for the vanilla.
This time i baked it in the toaster oven. It's a Good toaster oven, Breville, convection oven, so it's not that and it has a glass door so i could watch what was happening. Halfway through the baking time it looked all great and like it should but then suddenly.... But it will taste fine and work to maintain the new layer of fat i am acquiring which is the POINT.
Something with the doe Goats today. They RAN. They RAN back and forth Front to Back down the Migrational Coorider like they were being chased by a Cheetah. There is an overturned metal horse water trough just at the end of the Cooridor to the Midde Yard that acts as a Drum when they gallop over it.....all day. They jumped and twirled, they head butted but so softly it was funny to watch, the rising up on hind legs, coming down to barely touch foreheads....barely touch...but they were so Involved in whatever it was....actually, it's still going on...almost dusk...and they continue.
it's 7:16. Supposed to storm tonight. After a couple or a few mouseless months, i hear that clatter in the Tin Cat of someone trying to get out. Will give him/her a ride to the ditch bank in the morning. And that's it for Earth Day, 2016
8:09 p.m. GREAT Thunder....rolling down from the Rim
