Drive in the Rain

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just a rainy day drive in the mountains.



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We No Speak Americano (dance!)

I drank some Usnea tea and had a lil' burst of energy. YAY!
So here is my July 4th tribute. Except i forgot it was July 4th until a little while ago. oh! bad bad americano, i am!



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Trip To The Doctor

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Self Dedication

Cause sometimes no one else is gonna dedicate a song to you, so you just have to do it for yourself!
Here is mine for today.....
(luckily this time it isn't Air SUppley, heh?! lol)

this video is the best of alot of worlds for me.... the marching band (like mardi gras in new orleans), the lyrics, the marching band uniforms are not only hawt but also in my fav color.... then swamp camo monster people playing wind instruments! .... its all too much!!



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My Black and White Bunny

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tooooo cute to be true, i could melt and die from the bunny cuteness burning my heart out!



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Spring Sprung, Life At The Luck Cabin

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Spring stuff coming up.
(the music and background noise mixed together in a way i didn't intend... and got a little creepy.)



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The FOG

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Ride with me through the creeeeepppppy SPooookkkY fog!
It's so beautiful, you will want to reach out and touch it, like a bug goes towards a bug light.



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Logging Truck, my special friend...

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Who everyone wants to get stuck behind when driving rural windy roads all the way into town!!!
LOGGING TRUCK!

This is my idea of taking mundane reality to new heights.
It almost gave me a headache in real life... so sorry if it gives a cyber one.



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Heather's House

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My friend Heather sees the beauty in all things.

Heather's House from Militia Chick on Vimeo.

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Just Me and Cows...

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I don't really understand cows... but i think they understand me.



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The Arts Will Save Me (and us all)

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and now for something completely different.
art, nature. have similar effects when you submerge yourself into them. and let go of the outcome.



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Anxiety Attack... and so much more

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I have anxiety sometimes. How about you?
(btw- the title of this video says all of what you will see!) :)



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JuJu the donkey, Lost and Found Part 2

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I try again to get JuJu to come home with me.



As you see she doesn't make it all the way. My new suspicion is that she does not like the neighbors dog- which has always been true but it may have been a bit more acute with her hormonal state. Donkey naturally hate canines, particularly coyotes, and are only a bit tolerant of domesticated dogs and sometimes they are not even that - they will kill them.
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So here is my next plan of action::::
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Plan #1 --- go get JuJu without the dog around
Plan #2 --- tie her to the back of my truck and tug her home slowly (but i need help with that one...)
Plan #3 --- hold up a mirror and let her fall in love with her own reflection, and she can follow the mirror home. (thanks for the idea Noel!)


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Thrift Score.... and bruiser drives the truck?

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Today, I went(with the neighbors dog) to the thrift store! Then I wanted to go visit my Aunt (who is so awesome) but I got totally lost on the way to her place cause all the street signs were bent ajar, and the numbers on the houses were not consistent.

I stopped to ask directions 3 times on one straight road.

The third time, I was asking some 100 yr old man at a nursing home about using a phone, when i turned around I see my truck was driving away with the dog in reverse, down the nursing home driveway and out into the street, and up on someones lawn- people on the road were slamming on the breaks & slowing down - i was running and screaming, chasing down my truck - luckily before it could hit the person's house, it hit a uphill patch of grass and it forced the truck to slow/stop reversing.

A lil' video of da' adventcha ::::



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My Hemlock Tree Nightmare, removed/solved/ended...

The hemlock pine trees in most the USA are dieing, or already are dead from some accidentally imported disease. Hundreds of their corpses loom, and fall to the ground all around the Luck Cabin... but one huge hemlock in particular has been leaning towards the cabin, with a straight shot to smashing it in. HUGE. And so even though i planned to have the big dead thing cut down before the snows came, i ran out of time.
Then it came. The nightmare that the tree came down on the cabin... it was less a dream and more a partially wake vision as I rose out of sleep to sit up out of breath, heart beating fast, choked... i saw & heard clearly the thing come down through the roof in my minds eye and knew it had to be cut ASAP when someone could get up this frozen mountain.
It's no easy task to take down a tree like this with snow and ice still on the ground.......
me and the animals made a good audience ( ft. Lady Grey the chicken, the neighbors dog, JuJu the donkey!).
(watch the video for the slow drama of felling a giant hemlock. It's kinda cool and scary.)



I counted the rings to see the age... i counted the lines (not the space in between) and there was 87 rings on this big guy! almost 100 years old.

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Chicken Chasin' & Shovelin' Sh!t ( ft. JuJu the Donkey)

I don't really make plans anymore. I think there was a time though, many years ago that i could make plans and stick to them, that i could decide way in advance what i might be doing a particular day. Now I wake up in the morning and have no clue, i might get asked by the first person who rings my phone "what are going to do today"....
usually I have no plans, i have to make it up as i go along. I am almost living "in the moment" (maybe Eckhart Tolle would blush), but I wasnt trying to. I just fell into the abyss of no time frame (no watch, no schedule), and I can't say whether it is good or bad, only that I remember that alarm clocks are stressful evil noise makers and I think had i stuck with using one i would be mentally ill now.
I dont really know what i am doing with my life, but I know for me, life is for living.

Here is a video of today. I spent alot of hours, shoveling donkey poop that finally defrosted in JuJu's stall.


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Crazy Wolf, Dead Peacock, and Sunshine

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I am on the hunt for a good chunk of sunshine, but always something comes up where i only get the tail end of the bright ball in the sky.
I try though. There are always things to discover if I leave the cabin, and that makes it well worth it.
This is quite mundane... but so can be reality for us all...

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To The Lil' Local Library and Beyond- (a bit of fail)

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The girl on the phone told me the library opened at 3:30.
Away I go.



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Ms. Buttersworth The Chicken Improves!

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Here is my vid of Ms. Buttersworth my sick (but less sick now) chicken over the last 3 days. She is still staying in the Luck Cabin with me, but seems to be improving - thanks to everyone for their comments, ideas and help!



PS- For those that mighta missed it... Ms Buttersworth was acting strange, not seeking out food, shivering, hiding from the other chickens, isolating herself, lacking hygiene habits, acting confused & scared. She was eating and drinking if the food & water was brought to her, she just wasn't making any effort for herself.
I put garlic, ginger and usnea in her water and am keeping her fed by the nice warm wood stove.

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OHmYGawd, I Got A Video Camera!

Oh shit ya'll. My mom and dad gave me a video camera! (That lady in the pic above though is not my mama, just one of her BFF's trying to help me and my dad figure out the thing.)
When I asked my dad to tell me about the camera I assumed he so painstakingly picked out just for me, he said "I dont know". He gave me the instruction book, that little novel in like ten languages.
I pressured further by saying "but what did the guy helping you buy it say to you, didn't you talk to him about it..."
"No, I just walked in and said show me your best video camera."

AW yeah! I have no idea what this video camera is capable of, but it came with a remote control and I have a feeling ya'll will soon be seeing amazing close ups like my donkeys nostrils and lips, cool rocks, bugs, nature galore, my own dirty finger nails, and other such blemishes of life in the forest!
YAY yayayayay!
But for now... it's charging up.

Thanks Mom and Dad! Now I am gonna be famous. ;)

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