my granola dog 🩵🌲

We live at the base of a rural off-grid community, with our barn situated just off the main dirt road that serves the few-thousand acres of rolling ridgeline. There are pressures and demands of living like this, but there is also connection in a steady trickle of rainbow eggs into neighbors’ homes.

Continuing on the theme of “nonsense I can pursue as an adult” is putting up wall ladders up to the studio cargo net loft
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🐌🍌 moved this big little bud away from the ducks and into some shady moss. Hubs and I were begrudgingly doing a barn cleanout and being interrupted by a moment to watch this banana slug gave us such a reset 💛🌿 always recommend a good wonderpause

Also, the following is a gift of adulthood: installing a cargo net lounge in my studio with no one to stop me. ✨⚡️

This is 40, with a pistachio matcha pudding cake and surrounded by creatures and a hubs and a landscape that hold me each year around the sun with the greatest tenderness 🩵

Sundays with these two 🖤🤍

Another day with this favorite red-tailed hawk 🪶🖤. It’s been big time pouring for days and all of the resident raptors at the rescue were super stoked to bask in the sun alongside us. *Kept and handled under all applicable federal and state permits as an education ambassador bird.

It’s been pooouuuring for days outside and since I’m waiting on a resupply for silver work, I thought it would be a good time to make some egg stand flair. Old sign is tired and needed replacing and I had some scraps to use up 😊

A brief moment of sunshine within this atmospheric river = time to finish up some studio details. Pretty stoked on this sunset ombré on door trim work and my plant shelf! 🪶

The first of the CalFire S-2T cuffs. I fell in love with this jasper that nods to fire, smoke, and ash. It’s a massive 1.5”-diameter stone and I had some doubts on working it in to a reasonably sized bracelet, but I’ve been so stoked on how it turned out. ❤️‍🔥

Who else’s dogs doing a lot of emotional heavy lifting these days? 🫠🥲 (… I swear I’m being held together by head pats and tail wags.)

After a few-month winter respite, the hens are at it again ❤️‍🔥🌈 #offgrid #eggombre

Finishing up this second custom CalFire S-2T Tanker cuff this evening ❤️‍🔥. This stone was such a perfect representation of fire retardant- the entire bracelet was built around it.

If you know me, you know what an attachment I’ve had to my car. I get sentimental about my machines, and I shared nearly 15 years and 340,000 miles with Luci. While ripping around on our local twisty road last week, her engine finally went. 💔 I cried waiting for a tow. We had a good run.

Working on carving a raven this evening, later to be cast in silver. I have capturing movement on my mind, bridging a gap between my experiences as a pilot and in watching birds. Her flaps and landing gear are down, thin talons extending towards the branch, her eyes set on a sparkle in the sand.

Storm and Dove here to offset all these dang cats 😂 but also hey, we love cats, aroo 🐺🕊️🐾

When the digital and political world is a suffocating gut punch and leaves me crying over my coffee… it is dog head pats and this dirt road that temper the roar. #offgrid #tinyhouse

Hi friends 👋 🤓