Random Status Report

The trickery worked.  We jacketed the calf, which (skip to the next paragraph if you’re squeamish) means skinning the dead calf and putting that hide onto the orphan calf ~ four holes are cut in the corners of the hide for the orphan’s legs to pass through; this keeps the hide anchored across her back.

Mama cows know their calf through sight and sound but confirm it through scent, and jacketing confuses the mother enough to let the new calf nurse.  Once the orphan calf has its new mother’s milk coursing through its body for a day or two, the calf begins to smell like her, becomes hers, and the jacket can come off.  This mama is wholly devoted to her new baby.

Oreo, NICU baby, is the princess of the herd.  One would never know, looking at her now, how tenuous her first days were.  She’s strong and playful and curious, chasing chickens, ringleader of the calves.

I made this, following the cold recipe she links to near the bottom of her post and it is AMAZING, like distractingly good, like I was walking into walls because the only thing my consciousness could register was the deliciousness of shrub in my mouth.

Energy Cleanse

A new year is just days away {do you have a calendar yet???}, traditionally the time for resolutions, detox diets from Xmas excess, et cetera.  I’d like to share an energy cleanse.

This will probably seem kind of out there to some of you, and, to clarify, I’m not down with the whole “I was Mary Queen of Scots in a past life” thing myself, but I do know we all deal in energy, and sometimes we lose our energy to others, and sometimes we take on others’ energy and it drains our own.  Positive, stimulating energy interplay between people (and animals) is great.  I’m just talking about the negative drains.

To energetically resolve those drains (they’re created with energy and so they can be resolved with energy) I tried a technique loosely called The Blue Room ~ I held no expectation that it would work and no expectation that it wouldn’t work.  HOLY COW does it work for me.  In amazing and immediate ways.  The directions are short and sweet and clearly explained HERE.  If you want to start out the new year released from energy drains and compromises, I highly recommend giving this a go!

Dream Onion Hideaway

LOVE.
more incredible willow structures on her site:
Judith Needham Willow Design

This is my kind of photographer…..

both the photographer taking the picture and the photographer in the picture.

{ from Viciously Cyd }

Words Of Others

I have been having the most bizarre computer karma ~ first, my desktop konked out just days after I came down from the mountain. (It’s still konked.) Then, the night I flew home, we had a nice welcoming blizzard and the power flickered and fried my laptop charger. So now, while waiting for a new charger to arrive in the mail (PLEASE GET HERE) I’m sitting on the floor with my slow-as-Sir-Baby-
when-I’m-riding-him (he’s the polar opposite of a rodeo bull) iMac - the one with the arm (the arm is SO fun though). Most sites don’t even load on this thing because the system is so old. ANYWAY. Here’s some cleverness and brilliance I’ve noted on twitter over the years. I lost half an hour reading these over, and enjoyed every second of it.