mayamade

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:23:00 +0000

well, the packing is about half way done. the actual physical moving has just begun. one trailer is almost filled. the water and electricity should be hooked up right about now. of course today of all days the phone decide to go on the fritz. it does not seem to understand how much we could use a phone today to coodinate this project, *the great move of 2009*
but i know all will be well.

i am moving. and i have spent the last few weeks packing and cleaning

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:36:00 +0000

and getting ready. hardest thing ever. i am so far behind. friends have suggested that i will be running around crying and throwing things into a giant garbage bag right as the movers (okay not movers, per se, but friends who are kind and wonderful.) pull up to load our stuff.

actually that will be ian. i will be rocking on back and forth on the couch saying "omg. omg. omg. omg. omg. i dont know what to do." my mom? she'll be hiding under the covers ignoring everything.

i've been decluttering the last 3 years. really. 3 long years. i inherited a housefull of stuff from roommates, then i just stupidly moved said stuff into my parents house. lemme tell you if your parents or partner or whoever saved everything known to amn for the coming revolution start getting rid of it now. one box. one bag. one item at a time. take my word for this. because if you do it you hosue can look like this*

spent the day on the will heal farm with great friends and family

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:37:00 +0000

and it was EXACTLY what we needed. it just feels good to be out in the country. to stare at the stars and smell the yarrow. it was fantastic. incredible food including pork, salad, black bean and corn salsa, chips, garlic bread, sparkling juice drinks and incredible berry crumble. with rice dream and ice cream. yummers! the kids rode their bikes to the lake and swam, the adults sat and chatted. it was so good to sit with people with whom i have tons in common, i didnt have to explain things too. it jsut felt good, ya know?

tomorrow i start packing. tuesday we leave town for texas. the little border town my dad lives in will be the great vacation of the season. airlines! here i come, treat me nice kay?

moving. and moving.

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:19:00 +0000

well, almost all my books are packed. and going into storage at the new house. NOT because there isn't room but because we can take out one box at a time and put them anyway after we get the bookshelves put up. without boxes of books laying around.

i have all my winter clothing packed as well. and most of my in season clothing. i have just enough out to function for the next month. all my c.d.'s are packed which was a huge ordeal given i did a radio station for while and have a monster collection. the only ones i left out were then ten in the car.

today i finish off the one shelf of books i haven't packed yet.

in packing for the great move of 2010 i have realized how much stuff i own. and really i have gotten given away literally two hoses worth of stuff in the last two years. somehow though its getting closer. getting better. getting less.

birthday bash

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:54:00 +0000

well, today i am just worn clean out. kidlet was invited to a birthday party and the local ginormous water park. packed full of fun with pizza and cake. he won a huge pile of game tickets and bought some kid of guy. then the birthday child came over here to spend the night. i connected sooo much with birthday childs mom i am kinda surprised. she is a fabulous lady. we have tons in common, and not just the usual ohhh you have a kid too stuff but like "oh really?! your crazy too?" plus she is a big ol lezzie. which means, and i told her this, that i am less of a freak at the kids' school. i gotta say that makes me happy. usually i am the weirdest one. not this time. of course the fundie christians who make up about half the schools population just deny deny deny she is lez. they just think ohhh what a nice roommate you have. teehee. the water park reeked of chlorine. i cannot believe anyone uses that on their clothing. the stank is unreal.

things are good. still broke. still have more animals then (i do believe) is legally allowed. and still waiting for the bank to get their collective heads out of their collective asses about getting the new house.

first yard sale day of the season

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:30:00 +0000

and was it beautiful. the perfect day for yard sale-ing. not too windy or hot. or cold. sunny and a whole group of sales in one hood. fantastic.

best of all i got some stuff i actually needed, as opposed to previous years when i got STUFF for STUFF'S sake. instead i was very careful, spent very little money and really scored.

i got a blender, mine is making this very very loud crunching, grinding noise when i use it. and it is starting to spew black bits out the bottom. i think its dying. so today i found a new to me blender 3.00 dollars with a glass base. old style. it remind me of my gramma's kitchen which had the unfortunate color choices of avocado green and orange with yellow. very very ugly. the blender how ever is perfect! loves it. i also got a rust orange sweatshirt, woman's cut but still comfy. 100% cotton. and a very cute made in india skirt with a nice print in white. very good for summer and with tights will take me into fall. the color goes with tons in my small wardrobe. i got a couple of magazines too. just for easy reading.

this downsizing thing is hard to put together with my love of garage sales. but i figured something out. replace with better and for every one thing i buy or receive get rid on one or two things. so far so good. and i keep going with the big give-away because... well, i dont want to move it all. i want to move and to own only the belongings i truely love or actually need.

i love making stuff, i'd be happy making just about anything.

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:01:00 +0000

so along with my etsy store sales i have been making fairy wings, sourdough starter and fairy bracelets, along with several other things. saturday i started my sourdough mother. and ya know how much mothers rock. well this one is doing her thing on my kitchen counter. she is hidden from ickiness by a thin kitchen towel. she smells like guinness and bubbles at me frequently. i love the anticipation of sourdough waffles (how will i wait a week?) today i took photos of my sourdough mother, but to be honest... i spent last night in the e.r with d.s.'s dad. he put the hurt on the pad between his thumb and forefinger. he sliced it open so his thumb and forefinger are no longer attached. 12 stitches. and hello? why do these things always happen at 11:30 at night? is it so at 4:30 when you finally crawl into bed you truely truely appriciate it? it must be something like that.

for my witchery in the kitchen i used rosemary last night for our chicken stew easy peasy. one small organic chicken (yes, i buy organic meat, yes we eat less meat because of the cost, win win.) sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, stock, water, salt and pepper, and rosemary. cook say two hours in the pot, or several hours in the crock pot. fantastic i say.

i hate mother's day.

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:33:00 +0000

well...maybe hate is a strong word but all those made up bullshit holidays (that would be pretty much all of them wouldnt it? but i mean the ones falsely created ala admin. assistants day, mothers day, what have you.)

but for the sake of my sanity it is easier to smile thru it then to try to change the entire system. really, tried doing that big giant fail. but todays mothers day just kinda sucked ass, kidlet is being rude. which is not entirely out of his natural realm, he is after all an american teenager. god help me. but damn today he was excpetionally rude. but good thing is his dad was smart enough to stop by the local school plant sale and get me a plant for kidlet to bring home. smart man that one. now.

and older child who isnt mine but whom i raised also came by. meant the world to me.

at least soon it will be "the time in which child goes to his room and does not come back out unless there is bleeding or fire" otherwise known as bedtime. cannot come soon enough. i so need the break.

i wonder if the adhd/add medications the therapist and dr. sya he needs would help or is it jsut a gateway drug?

gardening and must post more then once a month.

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:18:00 +0000

today i planted chamomile, tomatoes two kinds, and parsley. it felt so good just to put my hands in the earth. i used a planter so they could be decorative too. the plants are sitting next to the front steps. i cant wait until stuff starts to bloom.

more planting tomorrow. boy seeds have really gone up in price. but totally worth it still. i also raked the front yard, i didnt put the yard waste into bags but instead i wait to rake until the city is going to do the annual street sweeping and rake the leaves and other stuff into the street. i figure before so many humans lived here many many more leaves and small branches fell into the river...

i dont really have a list from year to year of what i am planting. i have a general idea but not a plotted out excell sheet of what varieties or anything. so my list generally is things that look pretty at the various plants sales i go to. as a result i have like ten varieties of lavender, basil and echinacea. one or two pumpkins, one or two chamomile, two or three tomatoes, a huge strawberry patch, three kinds of roses, two squash, and a buncha other plants.

this is the time of year that makes up for winter, or hmmm... rather almost makes up for winter. almost.

it went fantastic. the spring fling party at my hosue today went over so well...

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:15:00 +0000

fun was had by all. everyone stayed later then we thought, everyone ate tons of great food, we had a fine wild and crazy egg hunt were all the kids got quarters, candy, and a little toy.
ians dad stayed for hours, friends from ians school and my volunteer place came, plus in "home friends" as ian calls them. god we had a great time. and later on i will fill in the details. mostly i just wanted to say what a success the party was.

tomorrow i will deal with the death of a good friend, tomorrow. cos i don't wanna think about it today.

we had our first house showing yesterday. it went okay.

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:05:00 +0000

if nothing else i have cleaning an amazing amount and purged almost all of my former belongings. new gifts out into the world for people. all to the freestore. they see me coming and are thrilled. it was tough finding a freestore that didnt make people pray before getting the items they are in need of. tough i tell you. but after several hours of calling various places i found it. so they are the recipients of all my former belongings.

in other news the only other thing i seem to be thinking about i threw away musta been 11ty hundred garbage bags of stuff. the trash collector made comments to his buddy. okay he was training the guy in so they werent comments about the HUGE pile of garbage. and it felt GOOOD to get rid of that stuff. sooo soo good.

someday i will post pictures of my work. someday.

the housing inspector comes in two hours.

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:36:00 +0000

ask me if i am done cleaning.
i'm not. i spent 6 hours cleaning the young teens bedroom yesterday. a developed nation complaint for sure, but still. i found a HUGE stash of silver ware and books to give to a friend with a kid alittle younger then young teen. the books, not the silverware.

now its on to my room. which really isn't bad. i just have to throw some clothing into the closet and kinda straiten some stuff out. prolly should make my bed too.
the front room and dinner room are done, the kitchen is almost there.

this guy is just looking around for structural problems, do the fire detectors work, etc. monday the first perspective buyer comes. it really has to look nice by then.

the day before yesterday i got a phone call from younger teens dad, he said "what are you doing right now? are you busy? i need a huge favor." i said, i am working but its no biggie. i don't have 200.00 dollars. what is it?"

he said "i split my pants working at Eric's (he and his wife own renaissance tree care and ds dad works with them) can you bring me a pair of pants."

i manage, barely, to stifle a laugh. and say sure

next thing i know i am driving to the house with pants. get there are hell if he hasn't completely busted out the ass of his pants. funniest thing ever.

it looks like were moving.

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:01:00 +0000

not just because of that but in part, i am getting rid of as much stuff as possible. today's load to the used book store was five orange boxes (not boxes orange in color but boxes that used to hold oranges from the grocery store.) four cloth shopping bags, and one plastic shopping basket i accidentally liberated from target.
Yesterdays stuff was three huge garbage bags of clothing and other miscellaneous wearable items like purse and stuff.

today we go see the house were looking at, i already drove past it and looked at the outside. its darling. today we get to look at the inside. the realtor were working with says it need work like painting and incidentals. nothing like the amount our current very well loved house needs.

i am amazed at how much i can to in a day. and equally amazed at how overwhelmed (her words not mine) and unable to do anything my mom is. now look i know what its like. i am overwhelmed too. but ive been dealing with her "someday the revolution will come and we will need________" obviously fill in the blank. lemme tell you we wont need 100 phillips screw drivers. ever.

nor will we need 37 toaster, 2000 books on aircraft history, building, fliers etc. two clothes washers. ever. ever ever. ever.

so its all leaving. to find good homes.

at least the airplane body that was in the backyard found a new home several years ago.

this new house is going to one of those houses that only has the necessities, things the people who live there love and use.

court was yesterday and i managed to completely and throughly so confuse the judge that he just sat there shaking his head and saying "i've never seen

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:23:00 +0000

this before...".
because ian's dad and i didn't argue the traditional ex partners way. the man/non-custodial parent saying its my money! and the woman custodial parent saying i need more child support!

instead i asked for ian's dad child support obligation to be reduced, its in my benefit, his drivers lic. restored and for the arrears to be eliminated.

it worked. we confused the family "justice" system thoroughly. and walked away better friends and happier people. it was worth every penny.

i also opened my hyena shop
it was a metric ton of work for write the code for that. esp. since i have less the no knowledge about how computers work or how to write code (that's what they call it, ya know writing code. don't i sound like a pro-freshion-al?)
i found a test site for hyena carts and a site for the codes for colors and an open source software thingy for making thumbnails of photos. i feel so successful!

i did something i never thought i could do. and it saved me 70.00 or so dollars to have someone else do it for me. yeah me! i test stocked one item, but over the weekend i plan on stocking tons of stuff. like soap, flower remedies, i have a couple of ideas for stuff too. i think it'll work out really well.

on an etsy note the ***big spring fling*** raffle is coming along nicely. the loverly ad that goes into mothering message board soon is really nice. the woman who did it is really talented. i cant wait for the sale to start. just a few more days.

i volunteer at the coop tomorrow, i am working up the nerve to ask helen, the woman who runs it, to put my items for sale. well see how it goes. although i dont understand the tax sitch with something like that. it might be more work then its worth...
tonight we go out to cy and rachels for a pot luck dinner, our contribution is brownies. hmmmmm... brownies. i think it'll be fun. i cant wait for out csa share from their farm to start. hmmmmm... csa.

i think that's about it for now. more later.

treasure mapping and decluttering

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:12:00 +0000

one of the reasons i love spring so much is that i can open the doors and have the smell of clean air and ozone coming in. okay so i live in the northland so its more like current rain and future blizzard but you get the idea. i was looking for the reasons we all declutter besides spring time. i mean why not january 1st?
so in doing this i have found treasure mapping. based on astrology, you declutter for a week, something i was in dire need of doing anyway, and then build your self a map of the coming year here is a blog that explains it all. www.tracyastrosalon.blogspot.com
so even if i didn't buy into astrology lets face it. the decluttering part? so me. in doing so i gave away 5 large garbage bags of clothing, a dinosaur of a computer, and boxes of tchotckes. it feels soo good. oh yeah! 8 grocery bags of books which earned me 50.00 dollars in credit at the local bookstore and created a huge gift for
the womens prison book project. a great organization that, i bet yhou can tell by the name, gives books to women prisoners.

along with the decluttering ive been working tons on my shop. tons. adding several new flower essences and been making up a stock pile of soap. lemme tell you when the revolutions comes i will be set up in the soap departemnt. they really are beautiful soaps. rescue me with 5 classic flower remedies. spicy chai tea with ginger, chai tea and cornmeal and essential oils. i also created a shampoo bar recipe i think will knock the socks off anyone who uses it. sage nettles and rosemary with olive, canola, coconut, castor, sweet almond, jojoba oils with lavender and rosemary essential oils. hmmmmm... i cannot wait.

well last nights lack of sleep is getting to me. ill have to spell check and edit tomorrow.
night.

my basement flooded but it isnt a noah style flood just a spring in minnesota style flood

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Picture aromatherapy play clay for the ***BIG GIVEAWAY***
Originally uploaded by mayamadeherbals

but some of the wood working stuff got wet. but not my herb and aromatherapy stuff thank goddess. i am leaving the door open today and watching the water just float away in the air. it coulda been soooo much worse.

yesterday was the last day of spring break. we were one minute late to school, tons of the other kids were super late. it was kinda funny to watch this line of kids waiting to the late slips. you can see the surfer kid, in a place 1000 miles from any water you could surf in. the urban stylie kids, the nerds, the kids with flakey parents, the religious kids, my kid goes to a school in which a large population are very very religous, very scarey (do not click on that link if you are easily scared.)and then a buncha atheists. its a very odd combonation.

so today i am working on soap. gardeners soap and hand cream as a set. the gardeners soap is a olive oil and canola oil base with calendula infusion and cornmeal. the cream i'm not too sure about yet. i havent worked out the formula yet. we shall see what it contains. yesterday i worked on aromatherapy playclay. man alive it turned out good. if i do say so myself. cinnamon, spearmint, sweet orange, lemon and lavender in matching colors. it smells so delish and plays well too. now i just haveta get the stuff i have for etsy up in the cart instead of in the holding area.

listening to marfa public radio station. rockabilly central. very good

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:07:00 +0000

hmmmm... i had a whole thought. but then younger child work up and now its gone. oh yeah. i remember, we went to
loring pasta bar today for lunch. it was lovely, really.
a group of fabulous ladies, okay they aren't ladies really more like super wild women ready rock.

and drink. it was kinda funny. have you seen a buncha fairly to almost drunk 50+ women? very humorous. very. i drove my mom home.

the kid and i had therapy. is it a wonder we need it? it went well. when i say we had therapy i feel like one of those new yorkers that pays someone 200.00 dollars an hour to listen to them but this isn't that. its an entirely different thing. and it goes well. i generally don't like therapy or social workers but for this one i'll make an exception.

were still working on the ***BIG GIVWAWAY!*** for the mdc etsy team check out the blog here http://mdcmoms.blogspot.com/
make a comment here with your contact info, make a purchase for any of the members or a comment on the etsy mothering blog again with your contact info and you'll get a chance to win! of course it doesn't quiet start yet. believe me i'll let you know when it does.

i am excited to start school. lemme tell you it cannot start soon enough. remind me that i said the above when i am immersed in homework and totally overwhelmed kay?

well that about it for tonight. as soon as i can figure out how i'll post pictures of the loring thing. it was a good time.

oh yeah. does any one out there make white lightening? I NEED SOME for medicinal purposes only of course.

yesterday was my moms birthday

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:55:00 +0000

and it went wonderfully. really.
we haven't had her party yet, that happens tomorrow night. and bean is spending the night with bff at the farm. hmmmm... farm.
i got my mom great gifties though. a clear green glass vase, a hand blown glass multi colored vase both second hand, some of the rose body cream i mentioned in an earlier post. and i washed her car and vacuumed the interior. which i must say it was in dire need of. the water from the rio grande isn't the cleanest water. not even close. and after a while it kinda started to stink. for anyone who doesn't know we rescued some tourists from the american side of the river (that sounds so weird, american side. as if the river knows which side of an imaginary border you live on or what language you speak.) then of course, we got trapped after dropping off the tourista's. we waited it out in teralingua.

View Larger Map, which is even a more desolate empty "town" then marathon. which no electricity and no phone. and a pre teen boys a teen boy, me and an old lady. but it was fun. we just wandered around. the boys ran around, and my mom and i sat on a restaurant in the dark and had a beer. eventually it stopped raining enough so we could drive through the dark flooded desert towards home base.

and because murphy's law finds humor where i wouldn't necessarily find it. we got stopped by the border guards and after no kidding a 100 questions, the only legal one was if we were american citizens, let us go, soaking wet in rio grande water, cold, hungry and very very late.

well worth it though. well worth it.

my dad who lives near the border has a fabulous youtube video up you all should watch. try to ignore the chickens and roosters crowing in the background.

in anticipation of spring i am show casing a spring line up of etsy items.

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:49:00 +0000

while i am still trudging through the snow i am ever hopeful for spring. and in my spring filled heart there are loverly shops that help the arrival of warmer weather. i know some people live in area's of the world where spring is months away (like me) and perhaps the endless drone of the weather forecaster is beginning to wear on your nerves too. well, to help with this i present to you SPRING! etsy style!

spring colors layer it now and wear it with a flowery skirt later.
spring wear i want one of these in a grown up size. look at the fabulous bike! i love bikes, even pictures of bikes. they are the coolest.
spring wear scarf imagine riding your bike wearing this. fluttering in the wind.
bring spring to school or on a picnic with you friends with this cutie little set.
spring style with jewelry i love acorns. i love they way they grow. and smell. now i don't have to let the acorn turn into a oak tree. i can have an acorn forever.
spring animals these are the most darling critters. i want them. especially since i don't have to feed them. i think if i got any more animals we would have to move to the country. hey wait a minute. now there's an idea.
spring playthings hmmmm. i love wood toys. they feel so good in your hand.
spring bag i love purses. i don't own more then one or two but this one might cause me to fall off the wagon.
hmmmm spring skin soothers i think this would be wonderful on hands after a day in the yard.
now spring reminds everyone of new babies. so here are some baby items you might need, gifts for yourself or
a friend
and some older babes too. i especially love this doll. it remind me of the dolls my gramma used to make me.

woooohoooo!

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:14:00 +0000

the etsy team i am part of made it into a treasury!
thanks sooo much to brightonwoman generously gave the treasury she was offered to our street team!

we all are so excited! so here is the
link

this is a big deal. as always you can visit any one of our shops at our
blog or you can search etsy for items with the tags "mdc moms" or "mdc"
and i told you all that i would post pictures of the body cream i made yesterday so
so here they are.

i also wanted to give an update on bud, the rescue donkey. he is doing really well. bud has gained 20 pounds or so and is really loving his new herd. the other donkeys piper, linda, lightening and chiptle treat him really well. lightening is ancient for donkey years over fifty, and has really taken a shine to bud showing him the ropes and teaching him all sorts of stuff. important donkey stuff. like how to work the lock on the gate when the humans leave, what plants are the tastiest and how to recognize zacks trcuk sounds so everyone can hear them baying i mean calling to be fed.

there are photos up of how good bud is looking too. wonderful little guy...

wonderful rose skin cream

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:22:00 +0000

i was struggling with what to make my mom for her birthday next week. go
pisces ! and while studing at my usual place i came across a fabulous video for making body cream. with video and everything! so i am making her rose body cream. rose is one of her favorite flowers, essential oil and hydrosol. i also made her some rose flower water for her room, bedding, air, skin where ever she wants to spray it.

very exciting. and very useful infomation on that video. the original recipe is from rosemary gladstar and you can look it up on amazon, get it from your library, borrow it from a friend or purchase the book and find it. rosemary is a well known and highly respected herbalist.

when the cream is done i shall post picture but SHHH dont tell my mom. she doesnt have any idea.

because my son has listening logs for music class and i get to help him pick out songs to write about

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:01:00 +0000

with a teacher he is convinced is a fascist dictator of art and music. so much so that he is sure he can only make "state approved" art and listen to "state approved" music in school. now, i don't know about that exactly perhaps fascist dictator is too harsh. frau director? but i do know she has talked to me about his objecting to singing the star spangled banner and the national anthem and how the only other kid who wouldn't sing it was a jehovah's witness, and tbh she kinda sneered when she said it. she also made terrible remarks about fat people. rude inappropriate remarks that had nothing to do with the subject i was asking her about. maybe i should just try and skip talking to her. can i get a witness?

gil scott-heron

nina simone

billy bragg, who uh well i don't have problems with his politics, or rather more specifically that he is a commie. but generally anarchist and communists have a pretty long history of uh, division (see spanish civil war c. 1939. when it didn't work out so well for the anarchist. but we had one good year there.)

sigh. woody guthrie.

and a personal favorite. ahhh...to be young.

the redskins

"he who bleeps nuns will later join the church" greatest song lyrics ever.

the clash. no better band. and because i have both an insane family and a family that rocks (all in the same two or three people...) the clash prolly had the greatest influence on my life of any band. they made me who i am and got me though the years of hell known as high school. and for someone like me that's saying a lot.

"the british army is waiting out there..." maybe today it would be the american army, in almost any other country. which remind me of the billions of dollars the air force is asking for to pay for the
f-22 a loverly airplane THAT HAS NEVER BEEN USED IN COMBAT. but was created to prove american military air superiority during the cold war and has yet to be ended. but if we don't pay for even more of the the airplanes lockheed martin will go out of business the hawks cry. hmmm. perhaps there is a different kind of economy we can create? a different
kind of world?

but i digress.

and finally, i think, because i really really like the video that the poster set up with this song...

This month all the sales from my little etsy store go to help rescue

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:43:00 +0000

an Italian miniature donkey found near my dads house. This poor little guy is the lucky one. He survived. His pen mate and life long friend didn't. His pen mate starved to death as a result of being in their corral without feed or water for several weeks. there are pictures in my flickr site of these two wonderful healthy donkeys when we were staying with my dad over the summer. TThe pictures are very safe and not at all of the sick animal he is now. but as he was a wonderful healthy donkey.

The cost of special feed and medical care for this wonderful being is outrageous. I have adopted him although my dad is physically caring for him and he will be joining the herd of donkeys that my dad cares for.
Here is the whole story. beware. it is painful.

Today a man came buy my dad's house and was saying you gotta get to that ranch by woman's name removed. One of those Italian donkeys is starved to death and the other one is about to go. the man whose ranch house it was moved to Florida and left the donkeys in their pen. To starve to death.s o my dad takes the miniature donkey, this beautiful Italian donkey, bred for working in the mines in Italy. He emails the guy (who I think has a special place in hell just for him and had better fucking not ever speak to me while I'm in my dads town cos I will be very mean to him.)
So the emails are:
My Dad:
Do you still own the house and land in Marathon? The brown donkey has been dead for about a week- name changed told me today that he saw it yesterday walking his dogs. The gray one is looking real rough, I jumped the fence just now and gave it a little hay. With your permission I will take it up to my place and put it on special feed until it gets some flesh back. I really wish you would have asked me to check on them. Who was responsible for feeding them? Not one blade of grass in their pen, even the chollas (native cactus, nothing would eat the cactus except if it was starving to death.) gnawed at. Please let me know if it is OK to try to nurse the grey one back to shape. my dad's name.

Guy who is going to hell: Please take, I guess no one I asked checked on them. Thanks Name removed

My Dad: I'll get him on feed again starting tonight. His gums return to color well so he isn't going to need a vet, but his hips don't have any flesh and the ribs and spinal processes are evident to the touch WHO was supposed to be feeding them?

Guy who is going to hell: I appreciate it. I don't think it will do any good to point any fingers. I guess there was some communication problems. I feel like shit this happened. I had about four different people checking on them. No one appears to have done it. What the story with you and your donkeys? What's your plans? I'll be out next month. Thanks my dad

My Dad: Mine are thriving on my own place, new barn and fences. I will take the little guy up there tomorrow morning, I have some therapeutic feed I can start him out on. Pointing fingers is exactly what I would like to do here. I am very tempted to say: "tell me the names of the irresponsible persons that did this, before the sheriff and reporter get here at ten AM tomorrow". that's just how I feel about it.

Me talking now, which is what i think he should do. My dad called yesterday afternoon, right after this all happened to ask if I had any money. I am sending what I have. And I am setting up a sale on my etsy store. All the profits to go this baby donkey. So it can stay alive. I don't know what else to do. I am so so so upset. So um pray for this donkey? please? or do a dance? or hmmm.. light candles, move clouds whatever it is you do? please? I am upset about the whole thing, they ate cactus to try to keep from dying. So I am adopting the donkey and if my dad can't find out its given name he is going to name it after me. ftr the donkey is staying with my dad and his herd of donkey's NOT moving to my house. He has a wonderful pen, huge! And a whole donkey family for this lil thing to recover with.

a handmade holiday

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:08:00 +0000

i worked for weeks and weeks on having a handmade holiday. the link is a couple of things i made for the kidlets, the book of spells is for my kidlet for his birthday. ftr he loved it! i also gave him a rune stone set (handmade) and several other things. this was an incredible way to gift loved ones with something special. instead of spending money i dont actually have or having to save up for months to spend it all at the holiday (i dont use nor do i have credit cards) i saved up time and creativity. felt quite good too.

i have several toher things i need to take pictures of but just havent gotten around to it. i made conditioning and coloring hair oil, bath salts, bath oil, lower back rice packs, loverly cloth crowns with button jewels, recycled wool slippers, recycled wool arm warmers, and a couple of other things.

if you care about handmade products, family business, kids and the ability of the economy to improve

noreply@blogger.com (mayamadeherbals) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:39:00 +0000

go here, vote for this. i am not a eloquent writer and will not pain you with pages of reasons you should do this. i will say today is a special birthday and i am taking time away from that to post this. because i want to be able to make a living, i want the mostly women, i know to continue to financially support their families i voted for this http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia

and this: http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org/it-s-not-just-toys

thanks so much!