Godspeed, tarantulas
This past weekend in Taos we had both the Wool Festival and the Mountain Film Festival. I tried to get to both. It was cool on Saturday so that put me in the mood to look at wool hats, sweaters, scarves, and to pet the sheep and llamas and alpacas. There are a lot of little sheep operations around these parts, and by these parts I also mean Southern Colorado and Eastern Arizona. Of course yall know the Navajo are big sheep ranchers and weavers and they're close by. So I went to the wool festival and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Everything cost an arm and a cunt, as my friend Julie would say. I didn't buy anything. I also went to the film festival and at one of the parties I sat and talked with a star. One of the stars of "Touch-g The V-id". The real guy not the actor that played him. The movie was made after the famous ascent of a big mountain in Peru which resulted in a pretty remarkable adventure, all life and deathy. I met the guy who didn't fall into the crevasse. He was quite entertaining. I enjoyed the unedited (drunken) version of how he felt about the movie, and the other guy, and the whole experience.
It was a pretty fun weekend, though the films made me tired. all that outdoor activity gets exhausting to watch after awhile.
I'm heading off to Raton, NM for another module of energy Healing School. I'm really looking forward to that.
And the lil earthship is SO FRIGGIN COOL! I've been learning more about how the black water systems work and meeting more neighbors and seeing more earthships and it has all renewed my enthusiasm for the whole thing. Plus, my lil earthship is so warm and toasty. I am so sold on being off the grid. I want to spread the word so this can start being done in other lands. Apparently the developer of my community has worked to get building policy changed to accommodate all the alternative building that goes on here in New Mexico. It's a process so other places will need to get to work, plus earthships have gone through a lot of evolution since the first ones. In different climates alternative building will need to be adjusted and improved upon. My neighbor J has a really really nice 2000 square foot earthship, with two cisterns so he's got lots of water, and he has it all- a washer and dryer and a bathtub. His attitude, which is now my attitude- is that you ought to have all the comforts you want. I mean, if you can afford it you might as well throw up extra panels and have more square footage on your roof and put in an extra cistern or even three. You're not wasting anything, just utilizing what the Erf gives you. When it comes to Solar energy- I heard someone say, "I got Saudi Arabia right outside in the sky" It's true. We do and it rocks and it's the way to go yall. I'm telling you. And it's so pragmatic, it just makes so much sense. In so many ways.
The Fall here has been nice. There are Aspens and the leaves turn yellow and fall down, so I'm getting that fall smell. It's gotten a little chilly but the sky is big and blue and the snow on yonder mountaintops makes it all even more picturesque. The tarantulas have almost all gone, they were really super cute. Shy animals, I was scared to pick one up because I had heard that they have spiky things on their back legs. I just wanted one to walk across my hand but they all ran away.
posted by Krissy at 8:22 PM
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Once in October I went to see the dinosaur tracks that parallel the Purgatoire River in Southern Colorado- and little did I know that it was migration and mating time for the tarantulas- at night as I lay in my sleeping bag, all i could think of was the literally thousands and thousands of tarantulas migrating that night, under the stars (and maybe me). Some biologist said that, “the males will continually search for mates until they run out of energy or until a female eats them. A male approaches the female’s burrow and plucks the strands of web at the opening of the burrow to lure her out. If the female is not pleased with his tune, she may consume him." I think the equivalent to this would be something along the lines of my friend Big Dick Johnson riding his ten speed bike from Denver to San Francisco to profess his undying love for a woman, only to be told, upon arrival, to bugger off by this woman. Well, at least she didn't eat him.
Off-the-grid life sounds so impressive. Alternative energy and building systems are exploding onto the scene at the moment. BTW, have you seen "Off the Map", filmed in San Cristobal? Such a beautiful little film.
As you so eloquently describe, New Mexico in autumn is wonderful isn't it? The first glimpse of snow on the Sangre De Cristos, the smell of pinon burning in the villages and the valley, roasting green chile and stocking up for the winter...The Rio slowing to a lazy, meandering crawl through the landscape, also preparing for the winter ahead.
Isn't there a little wool shop in the John Dunn shops, north of the plaza? You should go and meet the woman who works there.
Honestly, I couldn't imagine any of the tarantulas I met eating a fellow tarantula. Although they do get kind of cranky if you stick a twig down their burrows I discovered.
I think I know that guy- Big Dick Johnson, or rather, I met hime once, I'm really better frinds with his sister Anitta Johnson.
Unfortunately, I never got to meet Annita- I was closer to Annie Johnson, and Sarah Johnson, the twins.
I met Anitta Johnson through a mutual friend named Amanda Huggunkiss. She was a great girl..I wonder what ever happened to her...hey- does anyone know where I can find Amanda Hugginkiss?
I think you have Amanda's number somewhere- or did ou lose it?
Last I saw Amanda Hugankiss she was with Jeff Hunt's brother, Mike. One fine looking fellow. Have you seen Mike Hunt? I could spend a whole day looking at Mike Hunt!
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