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Saturday 31 October 2009

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Gosh, I'm a bit erratic with my posts but that really is how life is feeling at pres.
Never mind things are falling into place slowly but surely...
Finding some more 'energy' for the de-cluttering would be good...
I went really well but it seems to have come to a sudden halt this last week but I have a girlfriend coming to stay so I have to find her a bed & a place to sit in my ArtShed so I have no excuses any more...
Don't you love the nasturtiums... DH has them growing up the back yard & they are looking very pretty... always putting on a lovely show & waving happily... spreading smiles...

I have Crocheted another Art Rock... this is a special rock that my son brought home for me many many years ago when he was working on a station out Winton way [western Queensland].
These rocks are what are supposed to have spewed out of volcanoes and if you crack them open they are said to have crystal rock inside but I just love their roundness so have not had the heart to bust one open, just to see... I bet there is a special name for these rocks.
My rocks are only very small but they can be even too big for man to lift.
Collecting rocks is a heavy job...

The ones he brought me home were excavated out of a dam when it was being cleaned... I'm told this job is called de-slitting of the dams... yes dams do/should be clean every so often apparently so they can hold more of the precious water so needed. This is a specialised job for some people but I'm not sure what they are called, it's gotta have a better name than a 'dam cleaner'... My DH says that larger stations usually get these guys in [during the summer] to maintain the main roads into & around the station & they also do the de-slitting of the dams...
Now that's not just a couple of dams, a lot of stations can have 20+ dams on their properties. One of the stations our son worked on had 45 windmills alone, so full-time work in the windmills & many of these windmills pump into dams for the stock be it sheep or cattle... even goats.
We've noticed that all the dams that we can see traveling to our DD1's place in the last year have all been done - up her end of the track - that means so some contractors must have gone through that way.
Talking about 'de-slitting' of the dams, I had better get to my 'de-cluttering' here cause I can see talking about it is not getting it done. I really have to put some/lots of manual effort into it... so off to work I go....
Carefully cleanse your mind's eye of the clouds & impurities.
Then, goodness, beauty & truthfulness will be revealed to you...

2 comments:

Cat said...

Your round rocks are "geodes" and can have amazingly beautiful crystal formations on the inside. To me it's like a hidden talent. I think you can have them sawed in half and polished...

Good luck on your de-cluttering... a job I NEED to do too! And have a lovely visit with your friend.

L/C

Quilt Architect said...

I like your rocks. It reminds of a story about the photographer Ansel Adams and the Painter Georgia O'Keefe. They were good friends. They used to challenge each other to find the perfect rock. When one would come over they would show off their perfect rock. One day Georgia was visiting Ansel Adams and he showed her his perfect rock. It was indeed "The Perfect Rock". Georgia O'Keefe called up Ansel and told him she had found the perfect rock. When he went to look for his ...it was gone. lol.

I believe that is how the story goes...it was in a film about Ansel Adams.