a good healing rant, i probably would have added a couple of expletives tho cheers

grace i can only find her name and town, but that will find her, it's only a small town. Vicki Jackson (long hair pig breeder), St Marys, Tasmania 7215, Australia.

so much......

Umm, don't think you really do patricia.

grace dear i saw this and thought you might get a chuckle out of it. Not goats but close, and in Tasmania where i lived for many years. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-23/couple-told-to-move-dozens-of-pigs-out-of-their-house/4838398

the whole world can be in a grain of sand grace dear, if one lets it be.

^'..'^

he didn't let you down, he was just Buck/wheat

on his best behaviour... ?

i loove that you found all that foliage for the goats, wheeeeeee!!

So Beautiful, so peaceful, such acceptance........

Love it! so heart warming and cosy and just STILL.....

thanks Deb, and i see you're no longer sugar-free

in Africa, or at least in Ethiopia anyway, facial tattoos are done to show what tribe you belong to, so it's an instant identification thing - where you belong. I think it would be extraordinary to have facial tattooing done, but it would have to be for a 'real' reason, like a real tribal thingy or a very strong statement as to who we are, but even then there is the question as to why one has to tell everyone in the street that statement about ourselves. Layers of thought.

What else is in there - oats i can see, also maybe flour....currant jam sounds interesting, never thought of that one.

Looks like you've reached your goal already so you must be grown up...

Poor you, i didn't know you were sick, hope you feel better very soon. Alpaca usually needs some sheep wool as it's not elastic enough on it's own, and it looks very pretty too. Take care

my preference is the top one....just my tuppence worth!

they are so right in your garden, they have always filled that space and now you can see them in it. You did well to offer them refuge. But i know what you went thru, a long, long time ago i took 2 candle stick holders from an old church which had been long abandoned, i crept on my belly thru the long grass back to my fence as the church was only over the fence to my old schoolhouse, then an old sheep came up behind me and nudged my leg - i bit my heart as i was sure it was Someone Important. I still have those candle holders and every time i see them i remember the fear. love...

the Coralie chair is happy as is the Coralie woman...love

you write as the wind, and yes i agree with linda, can you perhaps buy the house?

You're so busy, fabulous to see the variety there. I think they're just guessing about those percentages, it never works out right down here.

Maybe weave in the edges to blend it with the background. Nice leaves.

grace i've carried you with me all day and what i'm thinking you don't want to hear or read. Just let me say these few things - NO One wants boy goats because they grow up and start to to stink, and fight and head butt and destroy stuff. Before they get any older speak to a local butcher if there is one and let him take them. Then next year, if there is another breeding season on your once lovely place of quiet solitude and stitching, cull the boys at birth, before you name them and photograph them. How many goats did your daughter bring you only a few short months ago? Now you have 26. In another year you will be over-run. It is way too much for you. My worst fears for you have almost materialised already.

I enjoy those nugget pumpkins, usually plant about 3, which reminds me - must do later this week. I'm knitting white just now too, and it's for a dog so won't stay white for long - Lol! Your blues are lovely.