rains bath #2

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I can’t remember how Rain got so dirty but she was and an out door bath seemed like the easiest solution at the time. All of a sudden every thing got beautiful and Pearl got a hold of the camera and started shooting.

I really love the back yard this year. It is so full of life with the vegtables, flowers, chickens and rustic trelleses, not to mention the children. Oh the children. I just lost my temper about 3o minutes ago when a big jar of beautiful honey a friend gave us from here hives yesterday got poured out by accident. Grace didn’t understand how the ball jar top worked and didn’t have it on right and so much of it was lost into the straw in the yard. Every now and then some thing like this happens and I just freak out way more then I should. I’m not sure if it is because I am worn out and don’t know it or maybe it is just really hard for me to see valuable things get wasted. I seem to do my share of apologies around here. Saying your sorry is kind of like giving your soul a bath.

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Dove and Rick singing! {Father and Daughter}

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I have been doing some busking this summer down at the farmer’s market in our neighborhood. Dove got into the act with me this past weekend. She is a natural and pretty fearless. I have a suitcase filled with homade instruments I take with me. I have some shakers, flutes and a washtub bass. I am trying to learn how to play other things beside the guitar and making simple music items seems like a good way to enter into some new sounds. I have always loved the experience of making art on the street in a humble doit yourself way.

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We love mini-roosters

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I woke up this morning with the the plan of doing my personal devotional time with a loaded 22 air rifle by my side. We have a big ground hog that has been helping himself to our garden. I want to stop him. He didn’t show up this morning but the rifle is still loaded(with the safty on) resting in the corner of the dinning room.

The picture with this entry is Dove and Rain keeping company with our little bantum rooster. We thought we had six hens but it seems that this one is actually a male. He has begun to crow in the early morning which sounds kind of like a teenage boy who’s voice is just beginning to change. We are afraid that our little rooster will soon have to leave.

Our home is becoming an urban homestead. It is seeming like the most natural thing to encourage nature to have a life in the city. We want to bring some of the things we love about country life together with what we love about city life. We believe that the present American food systems and life style with its heavy dependence of fossil fuels is not sustainable and vulnerable to collapse. So with this in mind we would like to be apart of a national movement to develope new models of healthy living and sustainability. Our back yard vegtable/herb garden and chicken coop come out of that vision.
We are having a lot of fun and adventure in this present journey.

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