SATURDAY NIGHT!
CALLING ALL GOATERS: Let's start the new year right...
bring your resolutions: we need fire starters.

Found this baby.

Caught forever

Haste To the Ferry

Instead of a complete transcription of the lyrics-- try listening twice.

Feel the heat!

So, I am writing with a bit of trepidation here. I gotta say, it takes a seriously lapsed catholic, to call up enough guilt to come clean sometimes ( - I even feel guilty for no longer being catholic).

I have realized why the goat has been so cold regardless of our heating attempts; there was an upstairs screened window that was wide open: Heat rises.

Yet, before I am strung up for being this stupid, please give me the chance to make amends with what might be one of the most elegant appropo ab-solutions yet at the goat. Really, it was born of the moment. It wasn't really one of those chop wood-carry water kind of things, it was more of one of those chop wood- carry water- see deer- drop water- use wood to - kill and eat deer- oh hey, there is still a little bit of water left to wash down the deer, kind of moments.


So, the wood burning stove which is kinda sketchy sits on the deck and only seems to heat three people at a time. Everyone jockeys for position. The deck, being open air isn't quite prone to being heated.
BUT, if you take 7 or 8 pieces of flag stone and alternate their position on said stove, one can transport said stones with a mitt into the goat! Inside there is a number of stools and a wall bench on which the stones can be placed for the most deliriously warm culo! Now that the window is closed we are golden. Its like feckin Thomas Kincaide in there.

SNOW MORE, see ya there soon.

I am pretty sure this will work.

Dan said it would.

Very cold goating

The goat was cold.
Very old coat.
Very cold goat.

The fire set only made parts of us warmer. It made us realize we were not whole nor one together. We were separate cold people. To nail wood to a screen porch's windows, in the dark, made it look cozy inside and feel as if there were things to be done about it. But Nah, it was cold.

I noticed that in order to tell/hear good stories the suspension of disbelief needs to be firmly rooted in the forgetting of the body and presence. I can't forget or really listen when I am cold.

The cold on some level binds us to the past. Yet, it is hard to think of a time where everyone was really cold all winter long. I've heard stories of how eventually the cold comes to be experienced as heat. I've also heard that to die of exposure is not so bad because you are eventually lulled to sleep. Both of these things only seem true because the paradox smacks of a certain inanity.

I don't think I have ever been that cold.

Was it Jack London that wrote about trying to light a fire with very few matches, numb hands and wet wood in a tree well? That, I kind of get.

When I was a kid, nuns always tried to instill in us that we never really knew what it was like to be cold and hungry. On some level their words contained the subtle meaning that they did understand real cold and hunger: Not through experience but through a greater gift for empathy. Them nuns were cold and hungry.

I am gonna figure out how to heat the goat.

Turtle update.

Oh, yeah and ... the city was just ripe with construction waste this week. Amazing scrap piles contributed to the turtle needs. Thanks, DAVE for the hook up. Really, if only I had a one ton pick up.

Also, about Saturday night.
It is important not to leave cake out all night; It is so mousy. One might say, hey they don't eat much -- who cares? And I say,Yeah but they sure crap a lot.

Jeff was in an odd place.... the pidgeon.

Jeff was all like," this is a great one, this is an amazing song" moments later, " Stop dancing and jumping around the record is skipping"




BDAYBOY

Yet another guest bartender honing his profession by testing the product before delivery.

Welcome Chuck B to the list of previous devoted droppings.

BDAYPARTY

So it seems DJ-eff, will be birthdaying at the goat SAT. He said all are welcome.
I doubt we'll have a dance floor done but we will have plenty of places for people to trip and fall as usual. Bring head gear. Apparently, Jeff will be coming by this afternoon to work on the turtle a bit. Feel free-- real free.

Lucca has been scratching many of the blocks to be used in the turtle and arranging little tableaus before the blocks are installed. He keeps telling me that this is his process. He said that if he does this, everything will be magic and healthy and strong.