tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84113783323317418632024-03-12T21:12:55.578-04:00along the trailFollow as we walk along the trail, tapping maples, making syrup and discovering what else walks along the trail with us.trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-56467707219946665022013-08-17T10:39:00.000-04:002013-09-02T10:16:03.849-04:00Yeah! That's Me! :) Want My Autograph?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last year I was contacted through my Etsy shop by someone asking if they could publish my reindeer in their magazine.<br />
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Ok, at first I thought it was someone playing a joke on me! Who had I tricked lately that would want to pay me back? <em>looks slowly over shoulder in both directions...</em><br />
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<em> That could be a long list!</em><br />
Well.....after a little checking I found out it was not a joke at all! Better Homes & Gardens Holiday Craft Magazine really did want to feature my snow white reindeer and so the journey began.<br />
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A journey that took a year. Yes, a year! Because you see, the fine editors of magazines are very organized and plan things out a year in advance. I know to many of you that might not seem impressive, but to disorganized me...well let's just say I am lucky if I can plan tomorrows events and actually come up with <br />
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4. (and here is the butt.yeah I meant to spell it that way) Not losing the list!..Oh crank! I lost the list! <br />
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You get the picture! You see why planning something a year in advance impresses me so! What a wonder it is to me that these editors actually start perusing the craft sites, like Etsy, for ideas that would work for their next years magazine and that they do this before I have even bought one Christmas gift for this year. WOW! Only in my dreams could I line my ducks up so well and not lose them!<br />
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So, after many back and forth emails and packages sent, then a long year of waiting and me thinking the whole time...<br />
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"I bet they lost the list that said *Publish Lisa's reindeer in the 2013 Holiday Craft Magazine"<br />
*really! I could see it in my minds eye laying crumbled beneath a table gathering dust and the photographer saying "Uh, weren't we suppose to do a shoot on something white or something? Oh never mind! Let's move onto the next one."<br />
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They really did not forget and they really did publish my reindeer! LOOK!<br />
<em>trembling finger pointing down. quivering voice. </em><br />
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<em> little disorganized heart soars. hopping up and down </em></div>
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Yes, There is my name! I feel like Steve Martin in the Jerk. I AM SOMEBODY!!!!! My Name! (<em>just</em> <em>don't mention that no one paid attention to him even then. let her live in the moment!)</em></div>
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They even made my directions look like I knew something! Dare I even say they made me look...(whisper)...<em>organized!</em></div>
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<em>...and Lisa skips off into sunset giggling and mumbling to self about little white deer!</em></div>
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Update! I am so honored to have our creations featured on LivingFelt's Blog <br />
Click here to read and see<a href="http://livingfelt.com/blog/?p=5576">http://livingfelt.com/blog/?p=5576</a><br />
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Growing up on the mountain I remember that every now and then we would find a bit of wild magic.<br />
The magic came in the smallest form, in the unlikeliest place. On the quiet side of the yard, where wild thyme grew and mossy patches made soft bright carpets among tufts of bluegrass and wild flowers, we would find tiny bowl like holes in the ground. These perfectly round bowls would be no bigger then our cereal bowls and lined with bits of clover and soft, soft downy fur. Inside there would be the tiniest, soft as velvet little gray beings with big brown eyes looking back at us. A bowl of little bunnies waiting for their mother to come back and nurse. I am sure that my words cannot quite paint the picture of how incredibly cute they were, or how we felt as if we looked into the very eyes of fairies and angels, when we looked into their tiny world of clover and fur.<br />
As Spring and Easter approached this year, my mind kept going back to these sweet bubbles of new life and I longed to see them again. Below are photos of my handmade wild magic selling now in my Etsy shop.<br />
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What do you grab when you feel the shadow of doom peering over your shoulder? When I say impending doom I mean blizzard, wind storm of unusual speed, hurricane, flood predictions, you know the things we have advanced warning for by our local weather people.The people that love to fill us with a never before known sense of urgency.<br />
Do you run for your nearest grocery store and knock over feeble and slow(er) shoppers to grab the last loaf of lite bread and dented water bottles? Do you say the hell with water, where are the cheesy doodles?<br />
Do you run for the duct tape and plastic rolls and make plans to seal the up all air leaks?<br />
Do you speed in the other direction past the grocery getters and head for the liquor store because "this could be a long one" and "There ain't enough liquor for this much snow" ? What do you do???<br />
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My family is like a log full of chipmunks! Mention "impending doom" or say "time to prep for the storm" and we scatter like squirrels with firecrackers taped to our butts. Yes, we grab our nuts and run! Then grab more nuts and store them and more and more...We measure water. We order water... this is where I should remind all you reading this that we live on a mountain and have to have our water hauled in at great expense, now back to the prep...we bottle water. Any empty milk jug or juice bottle will soon be washed and filled for the chance that the power is out and the water pump is not working. We run to the woods and cut wood, gather dry kindling, stack and cover. Then it is off to the grocery store to carry jug after jug of milk to checkout. (very important! The jugs will hold more water when empty) and don't forget the dry gas! Dry gas is very important so that we can make sure our little generator will run and we can watch the news, because nothing and I do mean NOTHING is more fun then watching the Impending Doom creep up on you from behind by way of the weather channel....<br />
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...OK admit it! It is a little like watching a horror movie and you are the star, but this time you are so well prepped that you think that you can rewrite the ending, jump out at the insane ax murderer (Impending Doom)and send him running and screaming into the night.<br />
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Because we have been caught too many times unprepared and have sworn it won't happen again! We feel empowered by the extra loaf of bread, the extra jug of milk, the extra bottle of booze! We love to sit snug in our cozy logs chocked full of nuts feeling safe and prepared for the worse. It is a dreadful feeling to not be prepared! It is glorious to be prepared! We feel as if only Impending Doom will look at us, standing strong before it with gleaming rolls of duct tape and plastic wrap hanging from our belts, pantries stocked full and plastic water bottles piled high behind us, impending doom will whimper, crawl away defeated and swear not to try that again! We will chuckle with hands on hips and scorn it back into the dark shadows. We grab our nuts and fill our pantries with them and by doing this we defeat Impending Doom! Or we think we do!<br />
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Like the prepper in the liquor store says "Sometimes there is just not enough <strike>liquor</strike> prepping for this much snow! Or enough water...<br />
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This picture is from 2011 when we had really prepped hard for the coming blizzard. But 3 weeks into being marooned on the mountain with no water truck able to make it up we started gathering snow and melting it on the cookstove. We did that for another 3 weeks before clean snow was getting too hard to find or far to carry. The cistern was dipped out and siphoned until we could not get more. Our plastic bottle long empty lay scattered and dusty. <br />
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We had the melt from the roof to hold us over, but dang! .<i>.This would be a good time to warn you what a slippery slope fighting the demon of Impending Doom can be. Fighting Impending Doom can lead us to a road of insanity!</i>... The down pipe froze and and the power went out. We would not be defeated! Would NOT I tell you! We squirrels gathered and soon had a plan to gather more nuts! We hung out the window with a piece of PVC trying to pour precious amounts of hot water heated from the cookstove to melt the clog so we could again have water. While hanging out the window a power worker walks up the long mountain road to check the lines. Joy filled our hearts! There was hope! There was still life in the world beyond and they had come to rescue us!</div>
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"I know" I jumped up and down with excitement. "We will have lights again and the oven will work and ..." He cut me off in mid sentence "Oh the hell with that! If he gets the power back on we can use the hairdryer to unclog the gutter! We'll show this damn blizzard who who gets the last word then!"</div>
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Tell me what you do when Impending Doom is coming. Leave a comment below if you can, I know sometimes this Blogspot does not let you leave a comment but try. TRY! Impending Doom will not catch us off guard again!<br />
<br />trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-1985221924295690892013-02-05T21:04:00.000-05:002013-02-05T22:22:14.901-05:00Shades of Gray and Dreams of Spring<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Here in our mountain studio the snow drops are blooming, the temperatures are perfect for tapping and the fires waiting for sweet sap to cook need tended like new born babies.The winter has been so cold and yet so little snow, only shades of gray. I have come to love the gray, but I love the snow of winter too. Snow brightens the mind and makes magic seem possible and makes the cold worth enduring, without the snow then what is the point of winter! My eyes thirst for color and are constantly searching the windows and mountains for the first signs of Spring. Spring, the real season of magic and the season of babies will soon be here in the valley and oh what a season of color it is! I look forward to the baby lambs, rows of pink piglets and cows grazing in pastures greening with the warmth of longer days. Here are some of my new creations inspired by my dreams of Spring and brighter shades. And don't forget Valentine's Day! A good excuse for a splash of red in winter's cold shades.<br />
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Our Love You Love Ewes were recently featured in the blog Lark Crafts, thanks to Shannon Yokeley for this opportunity!<br />
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There are moments when I wish that I could stop moving forward and just stand still.<br />
Like stepping from the the cold gray into golden light, to just stop and close your eyes...<br />
...stand still...<br />
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and feel the warmth of golden sun soak into your bruised heart...<br />
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I was moving forward despite not wanting too. My heart and soul felt bruised and I stood clearly in the cold gray. Our family, our life had been turned upside down and every moment was <i>struggle</i> and <i>survive </i>and<i> move forward </i>because that is what you have to do when life gets harder. Move forward because there are little ones that need you to keep them in motion so that they at least have a chance to catch the golden light.<br />
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I was picking my way through a mess of boxes and crates waiting to be unpacked from a camping trip that we had returned from just the day before. A camp trip that had been a desperate scramble by adults to give the little ones a brief moments to stand in the golden warmth. Two days was all that could be afforded, but it had been wonderful for them with sunshine, splashing in pools, campfires and giggles, so many giggles! Even the adults had briefly forgotten the troubles at hand and we had been filled with the giddiness of happy children, but now it was time I found the forward momentum to unpack.<br />
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"I am a flying squirrel and you are my tree." That was the only warning I had before a ball of energy hurdled through the air and smashed into me. I staggered and braced just in time and the blond curly squirrel clung to me giggling. My son squirmed and wiggled trying to climb further up the mommy tree.<br />
"I am not a tree', I protested.I got a face full of tangled curls and it smelled of sunshine, splashes and giggles. I stood still for a minute and closed my eyes...golden still light.<br />
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"Good Grief, you are still wearing the clothes you camped in and look at you, you need a bath". Squirrel sensing danger scrambled down off of the mommy tree.<br />
"Never", he cried.<br />
"Why not?" Now that I could see him at a distance I cringed. Dingy clothes and brown knees and elbows and hair stiff from swimming.<br />
"But look at you! You are covered in camp ground." He only grinned at that remark.<br />
"Yep!" he said proudly.<br />
"You need to wash off vacation", I stated sternly.<br />
"NO", he cried out and marched past me like a little French protester leading his country . "It is against the law to wash off vacation! Vacation should last forever!" I started to protest and demand his little french butt get to the bathroom when something stopped me. The smell of his hair when I hugged him, sunshine, splashes and giggles and I did not want to lose that smell.<br />
"You are right, it should be against the law to wash off vacation." I told him softly.<br />
"I said it IS against the law!" raising his finger high in the air to make a point.<br />
"OK, it is the law!" I relented "At least until tonight, alright? "<br />
"NEVER!" he cried out and marched back and forth. How proud his French ancestors must be I thought and giggled out loud.<br />
"I can live with a dirty boy for a few more hours," I told him and he ran off squealing with the happiness of victory .<br />
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I could live with the smell of sunshine and giggles even longer than forever. If only there was a way to bottle the smell of that sunshine, splashes and giggles for later. I would label it as 'Summer' to open in the cold gray months of winter and for a moment have a <i>moment </i>of golden still light to soak into my bruised but healing heart....<br />
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Later that evening my squirrel boy climbed onto my lap, still damp from his bath.<br />
"Smell my head mommy", he begged. I did.<br />
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I was surprised at what I smelled, not just soap!<br />
"I still smell sunshine, splashes and giggles", I told him. "How could that be?"<br />
He squirmed and snuggled into a ball ready to sleep.<br />
"I did it", he told me and closed his eyes sleepily. " Vacation is still in my head."<br />
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When I was growing up in the Shenandoah Valley with my sisters and brother, we did not know that we were living in a famous place that people all over the world knew.We did not know we were living in an historical place where life changing battles had been fought and sons had died or notorious generals had tried to scorch the very life from the fertile land to lay it in ruin.<br />
We heard these things spoken of, the fragmented words of adults that trickle down into young ears as children play and run past. We heard them and perhaps we should have paid more attention, but we were busy! There was so much to do and how could this all be true! We saw no scares or smoke, only way too much to do before the sun went down and beauty to chase...<br />
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... always beauty to chase! It was like a thirst that could not be quenched.<br />
There were green fields to race through and hunt wild strawberries and baby bunnies in and rolling forest of oaks to climb and imagine as kingdoms of fairies and rivers like sparkling liquid crystal to splash into and chase your friends through like river otters.<br />
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We knew that we lived in a place of vast and gentle beauty that never seemed to stop, of this I was certain.<br />
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We could not find the end of beauty!<br />
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Even at night when the green bowl of valley was filled with deep black and purple shadows and sparks of golden light twinkled on across farmland and hills, the beauty never ended.<br />
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When finally our young gaggle of sisters, brothers and cousins, had spent all the young energy our bodies had and could chase no more we plopped down onto the grassy mountain top that was our home, lay flat on our backs looking up into the sky, the beauty never ended. Sparkling stars glistening through the endless liquid indigo of space above us, so pretty it hurt to look at and someone would whisper softly like a prayer..."Shenandoah... the daughter of the stars!"<br />
We would all sigh because we all knew the words of the "Old Ones' and we knew that this is of what they spoke. Laughing we would realize suddenly that we were like puppies chasing their tales, the chase would never end and that was wonderful!<br />
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Drifting off to sleep I would think of the First People, the native people that had named the Valley their Daughter of the Stars and I knew with certainty that they too had been awestruck, had become "chasers" and had discovered the same secret! A secret whispered to us from the stars! To step into the Valley was to become a child of The Daughter of the Stars and that her beauty had soaked into our very souls and we would have the thirst to chase forever!<br />
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Now looking back I do not wonder why there are so many people in the valley who are wonderful artist and creators of beauty. I think the very act of stepping into the valley inspires the need to chase beauty, to look for it's end and source. An endless thirst to be ever chased.!<br />
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Artist of the valley may have long been over shadowed by the fame of Civil War history, colonist, presidential birthplaces, even the valley it's self. Maybe rightly so. Perhaps art is not to be as easily noticed among the natural beauty around and<br />
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The good news, there is a new place here in the Daughter of the Stars, something for the chasers of beauty! A place for the work of valley artist to finally be noticed and shine just like the stars that fill the dark sky above our sleeping valley.<br />
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A small artist village of sorts, nestled along a creek within historic Dayton where ducks dive the shallows near by...<br />
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If you wish to experience the the Shenandoah Valley, our Daughter of the Stars, then drive to the town of Dayton and along the way you will see all the things I have written of here. You will see the famous places carved of time and history, houses where makers of our country lived and land that rolls in layer of color that will take your breath away. When you get to the little creek called Cook's Creek where the ducks are waiting and sunlight dapples through the trees, you will know you are there and you will know it is time to slow down a little, walk the stone pathways and visit.</div>
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<b>The Artisan Courtyard </b></div>
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The Artisan Courtyard of Dayton Virginia will have a grand opening for the 2012 season on April 7th</div>
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There will be many artist and crafters from around Virginia exhibiting their creations including permanent studio galleries, wine tasting and live music. For more information please check out the links below...</div>
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<br /></div>trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-71685932664298468392012-03-12T20:17:00.003-04:002012-03-15T17:29:57.150-04:00A Bridge To Cross The Rippling Waters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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I remember a sunny day when I was very little, standing by my father's knee and listening intently to the conversation above me, yes above me, I was that little! My father was speaking to a neighbor, an old farmer who often came into the "Springs" to check the cows that grazed adjacent to my parent's property. They were speaking of the "Old Wooden Bridge". If you said The Old Wooden Bridge to anyone that knew Rawley then they knew of what you spoke, if they didn't then they had no business being in the Springs. A small lovely, yet almost unnoticed bridge made of wood that spanned the rippling clear waters of the Gum and offered the perfect place to sometimes view the rare native trout or to stand safely above the raging waters of spring. The bridge was so thin in profile, 8 to 10 inches of wood running horizontally , the support beams all but unnoticed. Occasionally neighbors would ask back and forth if the other thought a heavy load could come across like cement trucks.<br />
"Don't have any worries about that bridge!" the farmer stated and looked over his shoulder towards the bridge a few feet away."It is made to last."<br />
The old farmer laughed and looked back to my father and I knew a story was coming so I listened closely. "My father called on my brother and me to build that bridge one summer. We didn't much care to as it was summer, but..." he shrugged and laughed giving my father a sheepish grin that said he had better things to do in summer than make bridge, but of what better he would not speak of in front of little ears.<br />
"We did as we were told, my brother and me and we worked, just the three of us, on that bridge for half the summer." His shoulders raised quickly in a shrug and a laugh that told us he was a little proud of the accomplishment. "Barclay, we did it right and I wouldn't worry about taking any load across it! Ain't no flood taken it yet" he glanced again to the bridge and his voice dropped in that subtle way that gave an edge of mystery and danger, "...even though they have tried! Seen it covered over twice, but when the waters go down the bridge is there! The road might be gone around it but the bridge is there!."<br />
Even at my young age I knew the floods and power of which he spoke. My father loved to watch the floods as I did and always brought the whole brood of us down to see the raging floods waters that ripped down through the mountain valley to leap and snap at the two bridges that accessed our mountain community. Fear and excitement settled down onto me like heavy mist from the words floating above, words like "worst flood I've seen" and "took out bridges bigger then this" " but this little bridge stood fast!" or " folks disappeared in that flood., body never found."<br />
The words had started my imagination and I no longer needed to hear them, I just longed to stand on the bridge and watch the waters rush past till I felt dizzy and imagine the floods trying to snap me off the bridge. The prospect of standing just above the swirling waters and just inches from potential danger was more temptation then I could stand!<br />
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"Come on Daddy", I drug him towards the little wooden bridge!. I would not stand there alone just encase the hounds of floods heard my thoughts and had already begun their leaping, bounding race down the mountains to claim me! A few steps later I stood at the very edge of the bridge side with my toes up against the wood rail, my fathers hand gripped tightly and peered down into the creek waiting for the wolves of water to leap towards me and snap their mighty jaws...but there was only a shallow ripple of emerald waters dancing patterns above the golden stones, whispering softly, softly as they slipped beneath the weathered wood and onto their long slow journey to the vast ocean. I sighed and stared into the water a little disappointed. Perhaps the hounds of floods were afraid of my father's strong hands knowing he would never release me to their terror. Soon the whispering water made me dizzy and mellow and wanting to play and splash in the ripples and I forgot the flood waters, for now. I dreamed I was a tiny brown minnow darting through the shimmering sunlit water...and so the bridge was a portal of sorts for me, to take me into the world of shimmering shadows or hold me safe above the raging hounds of floods.<br />
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Though we sometimes took the bridge for granted, the strength of it we never would. In the Big Flood of '85 the huge steel bridge crossing the much bigger Dry was torn from it's foundations not to be seen again, but the little wooden bridge still stood!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Viewing the Dry from the "New Bridge" that replaced the one lost in '85</td></tr>
</tbody></table>It changed life for those of us living on this side of the water, a granted way to the outside world and for the world to reach us in return. My mother remembered a story told to her of a man dying in the house we lived in high on the mountain above the Gum. This was long before the wooden bridge had been built and the only access was a ford passable in low water season. The undertaker was called and given the fact that there was no bridge then, a Citroen hearse was called for. The Citreon had the ability to cross rivers by hydraulically lifting it's self up to clear rough crossings. If the waters had been too high though the ford would not have been crossed, even by Citreon.<br />
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So the reason I have written such a long and sentimental story about the little wooden bridge is that the day finally came to have it replaced. Huge holes had rusted through the I beams that spanned the distance. Perhaps the hounds of flood had taken their pound of flesh after all and the damage took decades to appear.<br />
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The crew was to start at 7:00 a.m. and so all that wanted to be on the far side had to be over by 7:15 or be stuck on this side.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...spanning the rippling clear waters of the Gum and just out of reach of the leaping Hounds of Flood.</div><div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>These bags are hand sewn from 100% canvas duck fabric and printed with natural leaves and flowers found around our mountain home. Every bag is made to be beautiful and very durable.<br />
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</div>trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-52678557437343380532011-11-17T19:13:00.000-05:002011-11-17T19:13:20.626-05:00Do you know what felted soap is?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe you have never seen felted soap. Felted soap is a bar of your favorite soap with a thick cocoon of rich wool felted snugly around it. When wet and rubbed for a few minutes in water the bar creates a lather thick as shaving cream. The bar will also last for much longer then a bare bar.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> If you have never felted soap before then you don't know what you are missing!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is like therapy for your mind and hands!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not to mention how soft your hands will feel after you have felted a bar!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then there is the very beautiful soap with a built in wash cloth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-34425437937380893082011-08-27T22:18:00.001-04:002011-08-27T22:32:14.253-04:00Tiny Visitors and Stormy Nights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> The gray bands of Irene were whipping over head and and the sky glowed pink, but the earth lay in deep shadow. I don't know what made me notice such a tiny bit of life in the cloaking shadows, but some how I did. He was just outside the nest boxes inside the fortress that I call my chicken yard. No bigger then a blade of grass and in mortal danger if he stayed in there till morning when the flock would pour out to graze on the morning bugs and dew drops. I scooped him up, so small I could barley feel his tiny sticky feet on my skin. My son waited just outside the fence, almost lost to shadows as well. He had ignored my orders to stay inside out of the rain and had run out into the dark after me. Now he jumped up and down beneath a ridiculous little blue parasol, talking endlessly about how he brought it out to protect me from the hurricane.<br />
"Come on", I called. "I have a most wonderful surprise for you."<br />
"You do," he asked. Forgetting his speech on umb-bwell-uz and mommy needing to be protected beneath his, he ran after me towards the golden lights of the house. Inside I called the other kids around and slowly opened my hand....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They had never seen a newt so small, in fact they had seen very few in their lives. The newts had virtually disappeared in the years my kids had been alive. Spraying for Gypsy Moths and over use of other pesticides had threatened the tiny lives that shared the forest floor. As a child, I had seen the orange newts by the dozens on any given walk through damp woods. That was then, so now it was a huge deal that I had come upon this tiny, fearless creature.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I told the kids he was light as a feather brushing my hand. They begged to feel him walk upon their hands and giggled with delight when he did. He looked up at them in a curious manner and they whispered among themselves about newts being friends of fairies and other magic creatures of the woods.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When he had walked the length of tiny hands, we carried him back out into the night and released him at the edge of forest and field beneath a black raspberry bush. The storm clouds danced above the oak trees and hummed through the branches as our tiny orange friend crept deep into the thicket of thorns and found shelter for the night.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"I am worried about him in this night", my eldest said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"I am not" I told her. "Did you see his little black eyes? He is fearless and brave for such a small bit of life light as a feather".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I waved to the clouds above and told the kids to think about how these were the clouds formed a hemisphere away off the coast of Africa. I told them how they swept across the vast Atlantic, soaking up energy and water to speed thousands of miles across the tropics and finally to smash into the continent and dump their mighty rains onto our green mountains, making our oak trees dance...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...they like to hear things like that normally. Normally, but not tonight! Tonight they are ignoring my lesson and whispering and giggling about the magic of a tiny orange newt, snug beneath a berry bush.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I remember the fair at the old location north of town</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> old wood buildings painted with feed & seed signs on faded planks and the harvest moon rising gold high above the ferriswheel and corn fields casting the mountains in coal black shadows against indigo liquid skies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> The scene was a story book page, a real life Charlotte's Web, a storybook I could live for a night. The images and memories of that old time fair grounds blazed into my young mind and haunted my dreams with fits of giggles. I had always believed there was magic lost when the old grounds were left behind and new shiny buildings replaced weathered planks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Would the new location build dreams and write stories for new young minds. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I do not wonder any more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To them it is still a story book that they get to step into every year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXXXzPdBkeVrJjv6aBDP3lKv5i3lJPRh5O64pOvSVWvb9HeSWD4FePfzbsgG_KWs-Vy9ujTe1RLJp20CPCMPUEOcPEX0zuJAYc_ljGeoAx_llVIvRdjJCHJauAEBAs-xJEjjMjiL5cWOpn/s1600/DSC_0490.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXXXzPdBkeVrJjv6aBDP3lKv5i3lJPRh5O64pOvSVWvb9HeSWD4FePfzbsgG_KWs-Vy9ujTe1RLJp20CPCMPUEOcPEX0zuJAYc_ljGeoAx_llVIvRdjJCHJauAEBAs-xJEjjMjiL5cWOpn/s320/DSC_0490.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A place where you can talk to animals and know they understand every word.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So very much to see and dream of winning!</td></tr>
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... at the County Fair all dreams may come</div></div></div>trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-29655179360592824362011-08-07T14:53:00.000-04:002011-08-07T14:53:43.258-04:00Toadally Cool!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I was walking in from the back field just at deep dusk, thinking of how nice it was that it had finally rained again after so long a dry spell. I was thinking how I wished I would see a toad because as the climate has changed her with global warming we hardly see any like when I was a kid and my children have hardly seen any toads. As I thought this I walked around the corner from the driveway to the porch and looked down</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">there was a toad and I was in mid stride...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my foot landed on the board ramp and it hopped from about a foot away landing right onto my foot and stopped...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...but of course I couldn't run to get the kids, so I yelled and yelled till they finally came and brought the camera.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He stayed there for about 5 minutes looking up at us, turning his head from side to side, then hopped off and looked around at the circle of us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I am out working in the garden this morning and the chickens are busy free ranging after I let them out... Yep, I pen them at night so they are only free range during the day.We have been losing a chicken here and there and one duck and out of the 11 chicks I am down to four and for the life of me (or my chickens) we could not find where the fox or coyote was getting in through the fence + electric. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway the rooster is strutting around looking all tough guy and threatening to peck me if I get to close to the fence...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">pretty tough when there is a fence between us...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But he is keeping watch over the hens and telling them to</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">" Listen to me baby and you'll be safe!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> The buzzards were flying overhead, the birds were chirping in the trees.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNLlyeaLhuEodaaxgJTLeoAtOpOIXKpKh6csTT2FTHaGudQ8xSvqNqo0GnGF2ZFd39WUPJmxKIejk9Bi7Bf9uFRf1cN1cqcTWcpVSZ27jx6gxxIqGwbCN_w-0hLekHO2JVMIAXKrcjLiDn/s1600/DSC_0479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNLlyeaLhuEodaaxgJTLeoAtOpOIXKpKh6csTT2FTHaGudQ8xSvqNqo0GnGF2ZFd39WUPJmxKIejk9Bi7Bf9uFRf1cN1cqcTWcpVSZ27jx6gxxIqGwbCN_w-0hLekHO2JVMIAXKrcjLiDn/s320/DSC_0479.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-22728734092671804012011-07-24T17:24:00.003-04:002011-07-24T17:40:39.983-04:00Cool Thoughts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Weather got you down? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Time for a picnic!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...a picnic to cool off your mind</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> don't be on edge...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYDfEg-SQeLg55Ug5SYB3OREifZdDm1RqziviFMaWoFd-Lpw-3-gGeRCas_Zf4f7-0HDgJU5y593ZRgOKkdndXUOMW88QsfeXYsTcAB1E9_FLvXUXb4i86nQCn_eljQqE4pzXcI8aBlJx/s1600/DSC_0055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYDfEg-SQeLg55Ug5SYB3OREifZdDm1RqziviFMaWoFd-Lpw-3-gGeRCas_Zf4f7-0HDgJU5y593ZRgOKkdndXUOMW88QsfeXYsTcAB1E9_FLvXUXb4i86nQCn_eljQqE4pzXcI8aBlJx/s320/DSC_0055.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but if you do go over the edge</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> just lay back and relax. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBZTq-3TpuH3N_GnFhzZ3sXjMVa0gXPnyjRLTvN5QxPkC-nOWRLfnInsmwIDczojVDP9RUuPx4pcu1bqOzTnfGZTzurXJyqloqayhjmS6sDWCxjVk1RTwCIgAWXaAhwM0yYsl8TawHHov/s1600/DSC_0104.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBZTq-3TpuH3N_GnFhzZ3sXjMVa0gXPnyjRLTvN5QxPkC-nOWRLfnInsmwIDczojVDP9RUuPx4pcu1bqOzTnfGZTzurXJyqloqayhjmS6sDWCxjVk1RTwCIgAWXaAhwM0yYsl8TawHHov/s320/DSC_0104.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">enjoy that time of being knocked flat out</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">looking up at the blue sky</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and remember that if the weather gets too overwhelming... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just bring the fun inside...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDiWEBOLYlfKp8Axxh_BzMg2vl8O9kadiMrjmyBBxCiNqzHySRd4z1IP-8gM-khegTdwCgSaoI9-BaX9Ls6aPbk4qSt1TaNK4w0-LLPUdLeLMZk3rgUE4xIfteP4gVGsBoscvdvvQZbdA/s1600/DSC_0057.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDiWEBOLYlfKp8Axxh_BzMg2vl8O9kadiMrjmyBBxCiNqzHySRd4z1IP-8gM-khegTdwCgSaoI9-BaX9Ls6aPbk4qSt1TaNK4w0-LLPUdLeLMZk3rgUE4xIfteP4gVGsBoscvdvvQZbdA/s320/DSC_0057.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-29904343388763511282011-07-17T12:53:00.001-04:002011-07-17T15:33:24.275-04:00There was a moment, it stayed forever...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> There was a moment, the briefest moment when my slumbering mind would craw from the darkness of sleep to the brightness of waking and my eyes were still shut. In that moment I would hear my brothers voice ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Wake up! Wake up!" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">he would shake me like a bag of beans</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Wake UP!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">his voice rippled with excitement and anticipation that could no longer be contained as he said the last word...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"...it is <i>morning!"</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was all I needed to hear, my eyes would pop open and my feet hit the floor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Morning was finally here! Oh how we loved morning for it was the beginning!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Come on, come on," he drug me towards the window, but I knew the routing. Stairs were to slow, doors blocked your way. We had a day bright and beautiful to get to and as fast as we could. He threw open the screen of the window and we scrambled to the roof and sprinted for the edge ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes the edge, it was the quickest way to happiness. We didn't slow as our toes touched the roofs edge and we leaped.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was a moment, just the briefest moment...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my brother's hand still clutching mine,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">when our small bodies hung in thin clear air and time stood still </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I looked up into the blazing blue sky and white cotton clouds and shimmering emerald oaks</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-73596795057998585262011-07-02T10:28:00.001-04:002011-07-09T13:48:35.565-04:00We Are the Collective...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> We are the collective, resistance is futile! We shall move as one and...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...we shall be afraid as one! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Watch us move as the nine headed beast called the collective.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">through the cabbage as one and into the lemon balm </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are the collective and resistance is futile.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oooooh, water!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BIGGER water... yippy!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh No! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The collective has been separated!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> How do we get out of here?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We cannot be separated...we CAN NOT!!!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>trail walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07478662459688006718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411378332331741863.post-79412523781843187892011-06-29T20:17:00.000-04:002011-06-29T20:17:56.929-04:00Margaritaville Hammock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Making the coolest hammock in the hemisphere </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Start with one fantastic canvas hammock sewn by one fantastic Grandma</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hire a crew of painters that work for cookies</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(really they do)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A sprinkle of magic makes awesome tropical water effects </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">OK, fuchia is just pretty</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...a thousand years ago the first people traveled to harvest the wild sweet potato from the earth they called the daughter of the stars. The sweet potatoes are long gone, the daughter of the stars is still here and the daughters of the first people still walk towards her blue mountains.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> So with small warm hands clutched to mine, I brought my daughters back to stand beneath these same blue skies and blue mountains to harvest from the earth. Back to harvest as their ancestors did, not sweet potatoes, but blueberries.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> ...and it is soon time to head back to our mountain where the wild blueberries still wait to ripen beneath the high canopy of forest giants.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cut out the center of the diaper, it is like an envelope inside so be careful not to cut the long side just so the gel beads stay in better. No big deal if you do, just less mess when making them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaiW0Rw0SXC94PxHKdMUZ3MSarmL_u1A2o3x4dPPe2e5AjbnIkhGF_4F0cbQiAJbAkgJ0euZXfAQ_XEKf2bbi-B1RtKKKgLV2lV4Q7JxaGxQgFXcB8hl9ePT70LiNbJ-AMSUvxYr6I4faR/s1600/DSC_0009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaiW0Rw0SXC94PxHKdMUZ3MSarmL_u1A2o3x4dPPe2e5AjbnIkhGF_4F0cbQiAJbAkgJ0euZXfAQ_XEKf2bbi-B1RtKKKgLV2lV4Q7JxaGxQgFXcB8hl9ePT70LiNbJ-AMSUvxYr6I4faR/s320/DSC_0009.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That is what you should have. Remember that diapers come in many sizes so this is a size 4, if you want a</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> smaller band use a newborn size.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All that is needed is diaper, 2 rubber bands or string and a sock or bandanna, scissors. Trim the outer edge of the diaper off leaving just the blue core. That is all that is needed because the crystal/gel is right in that center.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrA2d5wBqlJnlGNfqsgfAt8OWeQVqy7s74EB1TDcOCQcy0kmMLnOPQuHpStJZZwwcyW5_vQAj1V_YB20lBfF41Sv9lBcrx0aqusvq_r60nhVn0svS6vSfB0dHYMKSeHKlA18tyMinBld57/s1600/DSC_0067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrA2d5wBqlJnlGNfqsgfAt8OWeQVqy7s74EB1TDcOCQcy0kmMLnOPQuHpStJZZwwcyW5_vQAj1V_YB20lBfF41Sv9lBcrx0aqusvq_r60nhVn0svS6vSfB0dHYMKSeHKlA18tyMinBld57/s320/DSC_0067.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Center core cut out and ready </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dIS92m8P4qL8V3ZmegSfTHOWKObzRIfeBW52y9-yGi8Aj7b-Q8kNpNHgL8Kq0wBy9KEeIRC9PUBYWSpYtLSSyeCdYXq4EDa5mAjoKKemeAcl01mV5rUWwTEmHOX_ycyJblX7IBMjy12T/s1600/DSC_0070.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dIS92m8P4qL8V3ZmegSfTHOWKObzRIfeBW52y9-yGi8Aj7b-Q8kNpNHgL8Kq0wBy9KEeIRC9PUBYWSpYtLSSyeCdYXq4EDa5mAjoKKemeAcl01mV5rUWwTEmHOX_ycyJblX7IBMjy12T/s320/DSC_0070.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> I don't tend to take his abuse and have been known to cuss like a sailor and run around the chicken yard trying to catch him with my foot. This has earned me the proud title of the Fearless Mom from my kids. He is fast though and I don't usually catch him, but this will teach him a lesson and he will avoid us for a few days. <br />
But then without notice he is back "<i>huntin' humans" </i>again!<br />
In the past month he has tried to attacked one five year old, one oldest child, one grandma and managed to get one mom leaving a hole in one shin and a bruise the size of a lemon on the other. Needless to say my kids are quite afraid of this rooster, that is all but my middle child A.K.A. The Tough One! She marches past him unconcerned while protecting her siblings who hide behind her as they pass. She will one day inherit my title, I think proudly.<br />
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Well... he made the mistake of going after the middle child the other day, The Tough One.<br />
I hear a scream like someone has been snake bit and my oldest, the Meek child who is scared of the rooster and avoids him at all cost, recognizes the primordial fear and looks at me and says...<br />
... "Rudy!"<br />
Another scream and we were off and running with a stick in my hand. I found my toughest child bleeding and crying and Rudy taking aim for another attack (I later find out he attacked 3 times before I got there). I had had enough, I yell at the rooster and Rudy's eyes get big and he runs. I take after him around one side of the hen house and here comes a curious thing around the other side, my oldest child (remember? the Meek!) and she has a stick and is roaring like a lion. Apparently she has had enough as well!<br />
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"YOOOUUU ROOOOSTER! You don't mess with my sisssssstttterrrr!", and off she goes after the wide eyed Rudy. Around and around the hen house we chase him, I going one way, my daughter going the other. I soon relize that Rudy is not running from me at all. Every time I pass her I think "Good Lord, I am glad she's not mad at me!"<br />
Rudy ducks into the hen house and she slams her stick to the hen house door.<br />
"Get out here you little twerp!" she yells, "You don't mess with my sister!", he pops out the opposite side. She is after him again. I run pass the both of them and Rudy looks at me like "Pleeease save meee!"<br />
He slips between the plastic wall and hoops, she swings and the plastic snaps loudly and Rudy cackles and leaps free and she send the stick sailing at him, hits him straight on. Back into the hen house and out the opposite door. She is waiting with stick in hand again, " You think I didn't know you would come out here," she yells and chops the ground a moment after he vacates it.<br />
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So, the chase continues for a full ten minutes. Rudy goes right and I am there, Rudy goes left and she is there. Rudy finally dives into a nest box with his head crammed down into the egg slot.<br />
The oldest child waits at the nest box with her stick swung back like a baseball bat, "Come out you big meany, I'm ready for ya!" she screams at him. I know I have to end this before I have a heart attack from running around the hen house or the oldest catches him. I swing open the egg door and jerk the rooster out...by the way, you have never seen such huge eyes as that rooster...I grab his neck and ...<br />
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"<b>DON'T YOU EVER TOUCH HER SISTER AGAIN RUDY!" </b>I scream at him...<br />
... and throw him on the ground.<br />
Rudy squawks and flutters away to hide in a bush. I look back at my oldest, she still clinches her stick with white knuckles and anger pressing her lips to a straight line. She looks at me as if disappointed that I have spared him. She marches pass me and I think "Oh crap! She is going after him again," but she marches over to her little sister, who still cries by the fence. Oldest child throws the stick down and scoops her sister into arms and hugs her about in two.<br />
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I am awestruck, it is like watching a movie when the war stained soldier comes back from defending the village single handed and scoops up the frighten child to assure them that all the enemies have been defeated.<br />
"Don't you worry, that rooster won't mess with you again," she says softly to her.<br />
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I stand there gasping , looking from the kids to a bush in the corner where the former Pompous Ass now whimpers pathetically and try to get my head around this sudden shift in power. Perhaps Rudy will not be Pompous Ass of Chicken Town for awhile, perhaps the Toughest child has just been shifted to the Protected and the Meekest will now inherit the title Fearless. As for me, I think I have lost all titles and should take up jogging again to prepare for the next round with Rudy.<br />
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