What do you say about someone that is able to catch a moth that is extinct. Well last week Super slueth Trapper Christine was able to do it. She brought in this most unusual moth. Irish Extinct Moth It just happens to be native to Ireland and it’s coloring is so amazing we are sure that Christine needs a prize for her find.
I’ll be traveling with Christine to the azores this Nov. for a month on bikes look for us to blog our trip.
I think I’ll start where it all began. It was a raining February and there was a huge thunderstorm had come in. It is unusal for us to have storms like that but every once in a while it happens. I was working in the nursery and this little very cute bordier collier came running in scared and wet. Shaun our resident animal lover snagged her from sunset road. She was really cute and she followed me around the nursery like we had been friends forever. She never left my side. I think she new I had goats and there was a job to be had. At the end of business day Shaun who had called the pound, said “They asked us to keep her here because there are so many animals running around from the storm, she would be better off with one of us.” I looked at shaun and said “I’m not taking her, I have 40 goats 5 horses, and a dog already.” He’s like I’m sure her people will pick her up tommorrow. I reluctantly took her home. We did find her people, and they did pick her up. I should have known something wasn’t right when we put her in the truck and she jump out of the truck window and looked up at me. I’ll never forget that look as I put her back in the truck.
As she drove off, I wondered if she would be okay. I didn’t have to wonder to long she was on my porch by five the next morning. I never called her people again, she never tried to leave and she worked my goats every day for five and half years. Last monday I went out cause she wasn’t at the door in the morning she was out by the horses laying with her nose in the sand. Our big black horse standing over her trying to blow life back into her. I could tell he was worried, gentlely I picked her up and brought her to the house. I laid her down. She died shortly a few minutes later.
I just wanted let you know you never know where a loyal friend will come from. My Gizzy Girl never left my side and I will miss her. I didn’t pick her but she picked me and I will always love her for that.
Always My Beloved Friend Gizmo
lulu
while back I answered a question on Linkedin. It was what symbols identify you? Well I answer the question this way.
LuLu Kelly
1. Looking for my glasses on top of my head
2. Missing Keys
3. Paintings and canvas
4. gardening equipment
5. Homemade Ravioli and burnt chocolate chip cookies (I’m easily distracted)
Today in my e-mail I got this great cartoon of me. I mean I laugh and thought it was amazing how scott captured my essence and has never met me in person. He has a blog and has written a booked called the A.M. God. I would love you to check out what he is working on he has some really great paintings too. I hope he will collaborate with me on some retreat ideas.
I am a avid gardener and besides my friend Fred no one I know really likes gardening. I could talk botanticals all day long. I love flora and Fauna. Recently I join a group call GardenTenders, a women that I met through Linkedin Robin Haglund recommended it and I’m having a great time looking at very creative gardening and meeting some really nice people gardening in a lot of different areas. It’s amazing to read what goes on in Canada. I would tell anyone out there that loves to garden make sure to check it out.
I really loved this work. Isn't this the best? I worked with kids and just loved watching them create great Art. They painted and we hung them to dry and they would come back to pick them up at the end of the day. they always new their painting. As you can tell they were very proud of there work. Had a great day and I would have bought some Art but they weren't selling these were for their Dad's for Father's Day.
Recently Brentwood California the heart of farming as been under seige by the fleeing of people loosing there houses. In Oakley/Brentwood the other day while trapping I found dogs that had been left in the backyard. I’m sure the owners were hoping someone would take refuge on them, but no they were just there no water, no food. I almost threw up when I saw this. Then as i drove to the next trap I was almost again brought to tears when I saw a young couple probably in there thirties with a 10 year old a 8 year old and 3 year old packing there subuaru wagon with everything they owned. On their drive-way there were all of their belongings that said “Take Free” these are the times I will remember, what has happen to America.
Not only have we lost the best part of this community to so called progress, we have now been left with the spoils of what looks like a war zone. I’m not saying that we have bullets flying but to see a community devastated because of greed makes me sick. Our institutions have let us down, our government has been so unaware that we are crumbling in on ourselves. Are we just going to let this happen? How do we change. I want to ponder this because as Miss Wendy and My Dad would have said, “If we are not part of the solution then we are part of the problem.” Lets not play the blame game, lets get our collective energies together.
In Brentwood we have an area called the Agricultural Core. It’s such a sham if you’re a small farmer you can’t make money on your farm. You are stuck with a piece of property to farm that you can’t make a living on. Say for example you want to have another type of business to make your farm profitable, that isn’t Agriculture but would help you to survive through the off season. You couldn’t get approval to do this because big business wouldn’t allow it. They would make sure that you couldn’t compete. You might have some of the worlds best Peaches on 10 arces but that couldn’t sustain you for all the hours and people you need to employee to maintain your crops. If you wanted to add a juice bar to your establishment and use the juice from your gleenings this would not fly you couldn’t get a permit. Even if you pass all the health codes and followed all the rules. This is a crazy thing to do to our farmers. We want pesticide free, raw fruit yet we don’t help local farmers make this happen. I believe the only way to make this happen is to talk about it. How can we help what is it that we do to make local farming a priority.
I would love to get some positive imput. I believe in local food and farming.
Thanks Lulu
Most of you know I have a garden this year. It’s got lots of interesting veggies. Eggplant, Acorn, cilantro, every kind of pepper, 22 different tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, watermelon, cantalope,pumpkins. I’m so excited about it and mainly cause my nieces and nephews have been coming over and harvesting it
Native Gerbera’s in their nature home.
These beautiful daisies were brought to my attention. I think they are absolutely beautiful in there native enviroment. I will show you a hybrid that we grow here in the states for the floral industry. The Gerbera daisy is native to south africa and grow completely different there then in California. We grow them more more like a annual.
You can check out more on Gerbera Daisy
While working on a abstract and teaching my friend some water color things I add a little bit of chinese characters.
