Dancing Crow

a boy and his codfish

a boy and his codfish
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I promised pictures of the codfish I made for Brownell, but then I got embarrassed about not sending it to him, so I packaged it and post it before photographing it.

I am grateful to Jes for the picture of the boy enjoying his fish!

sumac

sumac
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

finally - finished SOMETHING!

weak excuses, weak batteries...

Part of my problem is that my beloved camera got dropped, and now it still kind of works but it eats batteries far faster than it ever did before. I think it is just dying slowly.

Anyhow, once I have a working camera again, then I can take more pictures of things again, and then I can show you new stuff. Because I sent the fish to the young man without getting a good picture, which is a bummer, but he was getting old and the fish needed to go more than it needed to be photographed. I think I am making more fish. A mackerel, because they have lovely stripes. And a flounder, because I love the idea of two eyes on one side of its face.

RE Previous post - The poi to which I was referring are the balls on strings that get whirled about in fancy patterns, not the mashed taro root.

obsessed

So I have this horse. Or at least, I have the keeping of this horse. And between the horse and the rest of the things I am thinking about, I am doing nothing blogworthy. For which I apologize.

I owe you a picture of the nephew's fish.

I owe you some pictures of things I have been making (flags for Aerin to use like poi, Poi for Alice to use like, well, poi).

I have no idea when it might happen.

happy October.

bully trot grin

bully trot grin
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

This is the horse I am leasing for the year. His name is Bully, which is short for Bullwinkle, but everyone who sees him calls him Wooly Bully. He is not at all wooly. He is an aged (23 years old!) Thoroughbred, with a lot of education. In a very sweet twist of fate, he was delivered to his new barn today, which is also my 49th birthday.

So I am square, and in charge of a horse for a year, and completely delighted with things.

Thank you very much.

You could be excused for thinking I don't do anything.

You could be excused (also) for thinking the reverse; that life is too busy to have time to sit down and say anything reasonable.

You might actually be correct on both counts.

I haven't made anything worth posting a picture, although when I finish the amazing nephew's cod fish I will show you. And I have been taking full advantage of the gorgeous weather we have had and riding one or two horses a day for the last several weeks.

Once the weather closes down I'll be back. I am sure of it.

Alice first day 2009

Alice first day 2009
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

starting in a giant public school after 2 years at happy-fluffy-love school, slept badly, brave face... we'll let you know in a week how it really is.

Aerin first day 2009

Aerin first day 2009
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

cold, short slept and grumpy - she will improve as the day wears on

new wallet

So, to replace the wallet the raccoons stole from the car, I have This Fabulous Thing!! It is Really Really ORANGE.

I have to admit I was torn between this one and the pink one, but I was sucked in by the orange. I was hoping for a kind of Christo orange, and this is much more international orange, or highway cone orange, but it works really well. The velcro is solid, the folds are good, there is room for lots more $$ than I actually have in the $$ compartment, and all the cards I need fit into the various slots. I can even fit the tiny booklet I made to keep track of my finances. And Al gave me a new pen to keep in it, to replace the ones the raccoons have. The coffee shop replaced my card with 10 coffees on it. Life is looking up again in the wallet department.

If you click on the second Christo link, it takes you to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's site, and you can see that the curtain was designed by Mitko Zagoroff and John Thomson. That is my dad. John, not Mitko. I remember them putting a model of the valley in a wind tunnel and making different curtains and testing various anchor points. I saw it unfurl in Colorado. That was pretty cool.

Anyhow - new wallet, working well.

the bad uncle

the bad uncle
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

He calls himself the Bad Uncle. It wasn't me. Really.

Although sometimes I agree, really he is a worse influence on me than the girls.

After we got off the ferry, I was jousting for geezers with the mast strapped to the top of the car. Al pointed out this was not my usual behaviour. He think it is Mattie's fault. I haven't the heart to tell him it is always there...