Counting the magic

Today is a beautiful day. Last night was a beautiful night. The moon was full in the sky almost all the night through. Inside our vardo, that's what our wagon home is called by the Romani. "Vardo" in their language means 'rose' ... I like thinking of our wagon as a rose on two wheels.

Today the air is clean, and breathing in feels sweet. My nose and my lungs say, "ah, love it!" I went to visit the four goats today. They love to eat. They eat almost anything. Banana peels are one of their favorites, but we have to remember to peel of the sticky labels on the peel. Goats cannot digest labels, it will make them feel bad. So we remember to take the peels off after we eat the fruit.

Here is a little video of my first feeding of our food scraps to the four goats. I count this as magic. Everyday there's magic, if you look at it that way.

The goat's names are: Quartz, Princess Lea, Cookie and Queen Anne.

Comments

Welcome "Little Frog" Carter

Hey, hey what a terrific day! So so happy you made the journey Can't wait to play, tell stories, and Go swimming together, backstrokin' And pickin' tomatoes or ukulele Come what may. Wow, you are a loved and welcomed little boy, Carter. You arrived on a Monday, November 23, 2020 shortly after mid-day, 12:10 P.M. at home in Kane'ohe, on O'ahu. From this Camp Bamboo with the other three humans, four goats, three chickens (until Jude finds three more because they -- Jude and Tutu Pete -- built a bigger chicken coop) one cat and a dog ... Welcome to the world and our 'ohana 😘😘😘 Your Two Tutus getting ready to backstroke with you.

Seeing one thing, and remembering another

Hello Little Frog, This is a video that made me smile from the first moment I heard the music and saw the puppet and his puppeteer. Your Dad plays the guitar, and your Mom plays the ipu and maybe other instruments, too. I don't really know, but you'll find out. This video reminds me so much of a friend your Dad and your Tutu Lady knew a long time ago, when your Dad was a boy. His name was Raymond North. Maybe sometime your Dad will have a story to share about Raymond North who had a gravelly voice like the man playing the guitar in this video. Raymond North was a Welshman, these men are Irishmen. Wales is near Ireland. Listen closely to the song at the end of the video. It's Irish. Your Tutu Pete is an Irishman. It's fun to see how one thing you see can make you think of another thing, or another person. Life is magic that way, if you look for it or listen just so. 💙💚💚

The Mo'o Quilt

Once upon a time, Carter, there was a mo'o. This mo'o was an old woman who had so many stories living in her it was sometimes hard to tell where one story started and the next began. So, that clever old woman took to her favorite tools, and began to sew and stitch. The Mo'o had bits and pieces of cloth that she was fond of. One bit was actually old pillow cases, washed and cleaned, and filled with the dreams and journeys that spilled from your Two Tutu's heads when they slept upon the pillowcases. The other bit of cloth was a colorful, never-used before cloth filled with Bird of Paradise flowers. The Mo'o cut and laid out the two bits of cloth imagining how a blanket could be sown together to be a story quilt for a very special family -- her family/your family, Carter -- who lives across the Great Moana Nui, the great big Pacific Ocean. Once a picture was pa'a in The Mo'o's mind she pulled out her sewing machine and sewed the bits of cloth that had B...

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