they built this when they knew we were coming. We arrived in December. Rain. Desert Goats, desert old woman. So they built it. Up until a week ago it had a tarp for a roof. The roof materials came and went on. A gallon of heavy duty preservative paint sat here. Everyone was nervous about the color. The old nana is sensitive to color. they were...eee......
but the wood needed to be preserved and parts were built with some kind of paneling. I painted this half yesterday. Today the other two sides. It began yesterday as some kind of gesture of Love in response to being in Paradise. Some kind of gesture of caring for things, for our constructions as humans...we are forever building constructions for stuff. Here....there's this. For the Doe Goats. we fill it with straw next month and then again in mid Rain season, so they are as comfortable as they can be. It's never too cold here. Less cold than in the desert of New Mex. There's never snow. It doesn't freeze. But there is that RAIN that sometimes goes days on end and Goats do not love Rain.
in this pic, Rain will come in from that end at the left. We'll put some kind of awning over that opening to roll up and let down. Probably canvas. The far wall can be open. The far end on the right where they come in/out, open. This full side...maybe an awning here too. Probably. But it's all configured because of Love for them. How can we help them be at Ease. All the rest of the year they sleep Out, somewhere near the feed structure. Now Rain comes. We will be Lucky, really, that Rain comes.
and the color is very ok. There is a sigh of relief. We are all ok about the color. I had looked yesterday about structures of the Maidu First Peoples here in the Sierra Foothills. They didn't have Goats. But they made structures for their needs...kinds of grainaries to store the acorns. Shelters for themselves. Cedar boughs. Willow. That was up near Rocklin. I'm not sure here, am looking to know. We go to Home Depot.
