Nov 26
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

thinking about circles holding things down.

pelting rain. no riding. barn work though, because they smell nice and feel good. and besides they were in on account of the freezing rain, so they needed the cleaning.

Aerin has the bug now, but she thinks she is going to school tomorrow. I’m glad she feels better, we’ll see how she is tomorrow at 6:30 in the ak emma.

Nov 25
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

So here I am cataloging and leaving for posterity complete DNA samples from my family, at least as we understand it at the moment. I labeled it too, because I realized I wouldn’t remember whose was whose (except for Al’s) by the end of the week.

It started because I was struck by the similarity of the girls’ hair colors when they were sitting next to each other doing computer stuff yesterday, so I chased them around the house with scissors and got chunks of hair from them. I snipped off the end of my braid because it is all uneven anyhow, and I am on the verge of thinking I need it a lot shorter.

Al was the hardest – his hair is like spider silk, thin and fine and incredibly soft, and (sad but true) he’s losing it, although slowly. He said he once made a barber cry, asking him to cut it dry. It is impossible, it wifts and sifts and blows in the slightest breeze. I just snipped a tiny bit from the back, so it wouldn’t make him any more uneven than he already is.