it is really here. Yesterday i got almost all the pics loaded when the electricity went out.
was so HAPPY to be stitching, i just went forward with sewing the Pocket on, before i had finished the invisible baste. Then realized that i couldn't do invisible baste where the Pocket is. would seal the Pocket closed.
i slipped this card in
but i still had to think of something different than the usual invisible, so i ended up with this long short long short long short....and really liked it, how it felt and how it looks
because the long stitch is on the outside, the Daydreams will not get tangled in the thread.
one Butterfly stitched down....for me....how daydreams are...fluttering through, there for moments, lingering, and then gone. but feeding the soul.
Long phone conversations, yesterday and today with daughter. Looping me in with their thoughts there. Yesterday a lot of it was about how 4 adults reach consensus about land use, about livestock. We have differing imaginings....Jenny's man would really like a Cow of all things. Alyssia is thinking she might want pigs. I am content with Goats. Julian wants chickens. I guess we all want chickens.
it morphed into Dogs. Alyssia has a dog, Jenny and man have two. I have Tay. How will this all play out? If there are issues, and there very well might be, how are we going to approach those issues?
Today it was housing. There is a company called Arched Cabins.com in Texas. They deliver. I got the link and as we talked, we both looked. She thought i would hate them. But really...they're interesting. If the foundation is set, they go up in 2 days. and i think, why not? They are inexpensive, leaving any extra $ and Energy for the "community things". Like a building SPACE for a large food freezer, large refrigerator for Cheese making etc. More for the Solar. We seem committed to Solar. and as far as that goes, TRYing solar. Trying it for a year, a circle of seasons. Finding out, by living, if we might have enough or not. There is no way to know unless we try. It might be just fine, it might not. But there's no way to know ahead of time. So i think the most important place we got to today is NOT KNOWING and being all ok with that. With an experimental year.
and coming to a comfortable place with really, not knowing Anything...even as in will we get on eachother's nerves, and how we might deal with that...if stuff gets crunchy. And she wanted me to know that it's not that she has no confidence in Growing, but that she also really doesn't want to have to develop confidence. She is happy with figuring out infrastructure, like how to build a root cellar, different kinds of off ground cattle panel arches, researching and then the actual building. So we cleared that up. She doesn't NEED to plant and water. Alyssia and i are into planting and watering. I don't need to dig a root cellar. She is Happy to. So...just all this kind of stuff and there is a ebb and flow in the exchange that is becoming smoother and easy. and reassurance that we all have confidence in the idea of this Well Being of the Whole, that that is at the core of it.
