#of soil’ and it’s like a special fast growing seed that only grows when someone’s preg or whatever

[krystaldeath]

Cotl au Idea (again lol)

So basically this all starts back when the bishops are still all there, meaning Narinder is still a bishop. They all live in this big temple space together, and one day some of their followers bring a blindfolded sheep to them.

The sheep (Bany) is a prophet/oracle and is actually willing to stay with the bishops as a sort of advisor for what to do to ensure a prosperous future for the Faith.

I don’t have everything figured out but Bany and Narinder grow closer and closer and have this kinda sorta forbidden romance (though it’s allowed to happen, Shamura isn’t exactly stoked that their siblings — yes multiple — are courting mere mortals; kinda throwing stones from a glass house though considering their little will-they-won’t-they thing with Sozo).

From the beginning Bany can’t seem to seem Narinder’s future, at least not very clearly. No one is sure why, but it is part of why the two are first intrigued by each other.

When they’re having their romance Narinder asks if they can find anything, anything at all to help figure out if they’re meant to be, if their love will last. They do see something: them in a bed, holding two newborn kits with white wool-like fur with a black sheep of maybe 6 years by their side, smiling. The two rejoice over the idea that one day they will have children together, neither quite taking note of how Narinder was not there at all :))

[dopescotlandwarrior]

A Hero Among Us-Chapter 13

Previous Chapters on AO3      A special thanks to @statell​ for all the help

Chapter Thirteen 

Warning: Explicit sex

Jamie ordered the entire compound locked down for three days of rest. Every man was torn back with dark hollow eyes. Even Misses Crook looked exhausted and walked to her rooms like a zombie. The rain had stopped for now and Jaime bravely pulled his shirt off and jumped into the frigid lake running the soap over him In haste and jumping out quickly. Claire brought towels to her husband and appreciated his gesture knowing they would be chasing their own piece of heaven and the smell of a clean Jamie was a fast track for her.

The men had moved all of their personal belongings to the new house and there was no reason to ever go back unless they wanted to retrieve the moldy dishes left in the kitchen sink. Jamie watched the men joke their way to the cabins, always lighthearted and too tough to be daunted by any task. He felt immense pride in his kinsmen and vowed to do right by them financially. He felt his wife pulling him to the house where he would show her no mercy taking what he needed from her. He felt a shiver of anticipation race down his spine and sting his balls.

There was something magical about their new bed. The mattress was firm and supportive making him forget his own name at times. The sheets were made from the highest cotton fiber count making them soft and cool to bare flesh. He kissed Claire from her knee to her core, very slowly making her back arch and spread her legs wantonly. Claire dug her fingers into Jamie’s hair and wondered why he was taking so much time.

“Jamie darling, I need you now, please don’t make me wait.”

Jamie was wedged between her thighs an inch from her core snoring loudly.

Claire pressed her hand to her lips to keep the sound of her laughter from waking him. She pulled her legs away from his head and covered him with a sheet before opening the french doors to the gorgeous spring day. She knew he would sleep better if the air was cool in the room. She felt powerful arms reach for her pulling her to his chest, still sound asleep, the man knew he wanted her close to him, conscious or not. Jamie would wake after sleeping through the day and half the night with a hunger for his bride. He worshiped her body for hours sending her on multiple trips into the erotic wind. With the dawn, he growled her name before collapsing into another day-long sleep.

Fortunately Misses Crook was up to receive the fresh fish and turkeys brought by the industrious men who needed meat, and a lot of it. She had three turkeys roasting outside and the fish frying in the kitchen by mid-afternoon.

Cho staked out his enormous garden and was turning the rich black soil to make ready for the seed that was donated by the nearby farms. The owners would have blushed with pride at their own generosity if they knew anything about it. He chose a spot that got full morning sun and he anticipated a huge bounty of tomatoes, corn, squash, lettuce, cauliflower, peppers, and more. Cho was happier than he could ever remember being. He understood the weight of his position here and was grateful for the trust placed on him.

Claire slipped quietly to the nursery and held the stuffed bear to her chest feeling the tears and the pain of her heartbreak. She curled up in the corner surrounded by all the discarded toys and cried her eyes out. The blood this morning was proof of what she already knew. No baby grew deep within her. It was the only thing that would heal this orphan, a family or her own, a child she would never leave, a completion to her own story.

Jamie woke to a gut-wrenching hunger and followed the aroma to the kitchen looking for Claire. He filled his plate and checked in with the men while he ate, still looking for his wife. Returning to the kitchen he looked at Claire’s false smile and swollen eyes and his heart broke. He would never reveal his disappointment to her because she was already so sad with the confirmation she was not pregnant, again. He tried to pull her out for a walk around the property but she returned to their bed to grieve in private.

Jamie walked in the fields that surrounded their property for hours. Just before he stepped on their land again he felt something poke him in the back. He was so lost in his thoughts it caught him off guard and he froze, lifting his arms in surrender. The bloke was taking his time and Jamie felt his anger rise over the assault. He twisted and viciously struck out at the man hearing the scared scream of a horse right before he was launched off his feet by a swift kick to his chest. He watched a white stallion gallop away, swinging its head in anger and kicking into the air. “That is one beautiful horse.”

Jamie held his wife through the night hoping she would find her joy again. Just as he did every month as they lived their heartbreak separately, alone.

For the next two weeks, Jamie brought fresh hay out to where he was accosted by the horse and replenished what had been eaten the night before. He suspected the horse belonged to the previous owners and wanted his comfy stall and daily feed again. Jamie kicked himself for scaring the beast half to death and hoped he could lure it back to the life it was meant to have.

The soft April breeze was warm and scented against Jamie’s face. He sat on the porch off their bedroom and looked at the vineyard below. The first thing he did every morning and the last thing every night was to check the vines. He never considered they wouldn’t grow, it never occurred to him. Now it was all he thought about because the new growth was three weeks late. Ben was away seeing friends and Jamie needed him back before he lost his mind.

The month of May arrived to double Jamie's anxiety over the vines. He stroked Donus and gave both horses a morning apple suddenly feeling his skin start to crawl and his back muscles tense like someone was there and watching him. He could feel this presence, above him, in the hayloft, but continued about his chores. Another five minutes and he definitely saw something move through the cutout above the stalls for hay distribution. Grabbing a rake he brought the claw end down on the edge of the hayloft making a terrible sound. He heard a squeak and dropped the rake to climb into the loft and kill the varmint. Seeing the shadow of something under a pile of hay he viciously grabbed at it shocked to feel a shoe and pulled it away from the hay.

“What are ye doing in my hayloft?”

Long soft curls covered a cowering head. The shirt was torn and the pants were filthy. The shoes had a large hole in the top.

“I asked ye a question, what are ye doing in my hayloft?” Realizing it was just a child he toned his voice down and spoke quietly. When the child raised his head, large blue eyes looked at him from a heavy fringe of lashes. The fear in his eyes seemed to disappear as the boy sat up and started yelling in French. Jamie laughed at the youth.

“So, ye say this is yer land and I am the trespasser? Why think such a thing, ye’re a child. Where are your parents?”

The boy knew he was risking being turned over to the authorities who would lock him into an orphanage which to him was more like a prison. He switched to his broken English and endeavored to look angelic to the man.

“I live here and work for the lady until they left. She told me to go home and I came to the barn after she let the horses go. I have been here ever since but you did not see me, milord, because I am too fast.” The child laughed at that and Jamie bristled at the thought of being observed covertly.

“How do you eat?”

“I steal food and have done so from you milord but I can work for meals and I am very hungry right now.”

The aroma of food cooking filled the air and Jamie was not surprised it made the child’s stomach growl. There was more to learn from this boy but seeing his flesh on bones he decided to feed him before turning him over to the Sheriff.

“C’mon let’s get ye fed. Ye mind yer manners and don’t steal anything or I’ll tan yer hide before givin ye to the law.”

The boy had to strain his neck to see Jamie’s face and he realized he was seeing his first giant which was almost as thrilling as eating. Jamie kept the child away from the Highlanders so he could learn more about how a tiny French boy ended up in America, alone. The kid explained he stowed away on the first ship available when he was running away from an angry merchant. He ate the apples in his pockets and fell asleep until nightfall when he planned to escape but the ship was already moving toward the open sea. He stole food and picked up a bit of English watching the passengers from his hiding place below deck.

“I stayed in the dark for a year, milord and when I could stand it no more I snuck out in daylight because I had to see the sun. A girl saw me just as I was running back to hide. She did not tell but brought me food each day after that.” The boy smiled while stuffing food in his mouth, “she had love for me,” and then he laughed almost choking in the process. Jaime slapped him on the back until he calmed down and started eating again.

“Ye werna on the ship for a year, maybe it felt that long but it wasna.”

“Yes, it was a year.”

“The captain would have to miss America and sail all the way around the world for it to take a year.” Jamie was not used to someone questioning his word and it was making him angry.

Claire saw Jamie sitting in the kitchen and went to him smiling, “Jamie darling, I have been looking for …” She looked at the child who had a drumstick hanging out of his mouth and a spoonful of beans ready to shovel in. His round face and pale blue eyes seemed to enchant her until she found her voice.

“And who is our visitor?”

“What’s yer name kid?” Jamie’s voice was gruff and impatient earning him a cold look from Claire.

“Claudel, milord.”

“Did yer mother give ye that name?”

“I suppose, I did not know which one she was so I could not ask her. The madam allowed me to sleep under the stairs and the ladies all treated me the same, so I never knew. One of the girls died of fever and I cried, just in case it was my mother.”

Claire was horrified at what she heard. This poor child brought up in a brothel without the care of a mother. She looked at the angelic child and wanted to cry for him.

“You need more food young man. Which is your favorite? I swear you are skin on bones.”

“I like all of it, milady, thank you.” The boy looked into the angry eyes of the giant and tried to redeem himself.

“Six carriages have arrived at the other home milord.”

“How would you know anything about our other home, boy?”

“I see everything milord.”

“Do ye now? Are the vines at the old house growing new shoots yet?”

The boy laughed and pointed at Jamie. “This can never be milord they look normal now but they are dead.”

Jamie’s heart rate shot up as he realized this child had seen them steal the vines and replace them. He now had a keen interest in making him an ally.

“So, ye say ye work for food, how would you like to work here and we keep ye fed?”

“Thank you, milord, you are a savior to me!”

Claire completely missed the hidden threat of their exposure as she was contemplating what to do with the child. “Well, Mister Claudel, you are too young to be outside. Misses Crook will find you a suitable room in the house and you will start your lessons tomorrow.” She looked at Jamie nod his agreement. “Starting with a bath and clean clothes, let’s go.” She motioned for him to follow her and before they were out of sight, the boy turned to Jamie.

“I have watched long enough to see you are good people, I would not have told what I know.”

Jamie just stared at him feeling very manipulated by the little genius. He felt angry and called after the boy, “ye have the name of a lass and I willna use it. From now on yer name is Fergus and ye better jump when ye called.”

“Yes, milord,” was heard from down the hall.

Misses Crook took over scrubbing the child and locked him in the bathroom while she altered some clothing found in the attic. When Fergus emerged for dinner he looked like a respectable boy except for the intelligent gleam in his eye. After supper, Fergus was sent to bed and was out the window and running before the bedroom door clicked closed. He ran into the fields that surrounded the property and whistled a couple of times before a beautiful white horse came out of the brush and stopped in front of him. He stroked its neck and the horse looked behind him and whinnied. Jamie watched the boy from the shadows and gasped as another horse approached Fergus with a very young filly. All three were the same color white and breathtaking. Fergus gave each adult an apple he had stolen from the kitchen and the baby allowed him to stroke her. Jamie watched with interest and followed but once the sunset, he lost him in the dark and gave up. He would say nothing about this until he learned more about the little thief.

The moon rose in the sky providing enough light for Jamie to see the outline of the boy coming back. He held one large, moving sack and a smaller one in the other hand. He set the big sack down every ten or so steps like it was too heavy to carry. Jamie watched him disappear into the barn and when he came out he secured the door behind him. Fergus looked up at the second floor until he spotted one curtain closed, the other open, and knew which room was his.

“Gettin back up isna so easy. Maybe we plant a sturdy ladder to ease yer nightly shenanigans, aye?”

Fergus spun toward Jamie, wide-eyed and terrified. “I’m sorry milord. I had a dark job to do for Misses Crook. She misses her chickens and is sad without them, so I got them for her, they are in the barn.”

The boy talked so fast Jamie could barely understand him. He walked to the barn and there were five chickens pecking at scratch, also brought by Fergus, he assumed.

“Goodnight Fergus. I’m sure ye’ll find a way back up there by morning.”

Jamie was exhausted and couldn’t wait to see his wife. He felt the heavy weight of his responsibilities every day and he didn’t like the complication of the little thief under their roof. He prayed for tolerance, patience, and a means to ingratiate the lad before he figured out how to blackmail them. He rubbed his forehead and counted the stairs left to climb.

Head back, eyes closed he let his thoughts drift in and out, seeing memories of Claire bundled up on the swing kissing his cheek because she could not speak. He smiled, and suddenly his eyes slammed open with a gasp shooting him to his feet so fast he felt dizzy. How could they leave it behind! The swing was still at the old property. He needed to get it back, right away and hoped it had not been noticed by the Randalls. He crept out the backdoor to retrieve the raft holding the lamp up trying to find the rope.

“What are ye doin?”

Jamie nearly shot right out of his skin and almost dropped the lamp. “Christ, Angus, I think yer tryin to kill me sneakin up like that.” Jamie tried to control his ramming heart. “ Since yer here, yer comin with me.”

“Can I come too?”

Jamie whirled on a black figure hunkered down about twenty paces away. He saw the red cheeks first as Rupert stood up and walked toward them. He tipped his bucket of crayfish at the other two men and chuckled. “Where might ye be goin?”

Jamie rolled his eyes and told them about getting the swing for Claire as he pulled the rafts out of the water grass and to the shore. Jamie held his heart and the other two men talked like friends, or maybe enemies, Fergus couldn’t be sure. Crouched low to the ground he peered around the corner of the house and watched them. The men made enough noise to wake the dead, he decided, and when they faced forward to row he snuck quietly onto the third raft and laid down very still.

Fergus was thrilled with his trip across the water. The dark shoreline could barely be seen and the houses stood as black squares in the distance. He felt very lucky these men did fun things like this.

At the opposite shore, Jaime turned around to tie the raft and the sight of Fergus smiling and waving filled him with rage. Fergus jumped from raft to raft until he stood in front of Jamie looking up and smiling. Jamie glared angrily and wondered what kind of message was in the boy’s smiling eyes and face. He had no idea but decided to surrender and stop trying to control the lad. “Keep quiet or ye swim back.”

The white swing was clearly visible in the moonlight and Jamie felt relief it was still there. They worked fast and when the chains came down Jamie caught them quietly. They placed the swing on the raft without taking it apart. They all felt a bit nervous and decided to get away from this shore as quickly as possible.

Jamie pushed his oar deep into the water and felt his beefy back muscles pull it through. He looked back at Fergus holding the swing like it might fall off the raft. Jamie smiled at him and kept rowing. Back at their own shore, he found a perfect secluded yard to hang the swing and hoped Claire would be happy to have it back. Three men and a boy disbanded to their beds happy with the night’s work.

The next morning the butler walked toward the house and noticed the big swing was gone. He pointed to it but none of the servants could remember it being there. Just before noon, Frank senior stood up and stretched asking his wife if she was going to pull her worthless ass out of bed today. She didn’t answer him causing his blood to boil. In a rage, he pushed her from behind and her body was lifeless, literally, she was dead.

Jamie’s eyes opened to a room full of sunshine, one of the rare days his exhaustion won the battle with his eyelids. He wandered outside to check the vines and saw a dozen men throughout vines looking closely at the arms of the plant. Jamie started running feeling a huge relief. The men were smiling as Jamie reached a vine and dropped to his knees to scrutinize the tiny bumps that had grown overnight. A heavy hand came down on his shoulder snapping him back.

“Looks like I got here just in time.”

Jamie looked up at Ben and shook his head no. It was indeed a miracle to know the vines were alive but the budding was a month late. The grapes would never be ready in time. “They are growin too late in the spring Ben.”

“Nonsense! I’ve seen this before after a transplant and mother nature will… ah heck, I don’t want to spoil it for ya!”

“Wait…Ben, it’s alright, I dinna mind if ye spoil it for me.”

Ben smiled indulgently at Jamie. “It will take about a month for the new growth to catch up to vines that started in April. It’s one of nature's miracles, she does not like waste. Speaking of waste, I purchased ten acres of two-year-old vines from the natives on my way back. The vines are already out of the ground and will arrive later today. It’s a long time to be away from the earth but hopefully, we can save some of them and add to the vineyard.”

Jamie’s head was spinning from all he heard in the last ten minutes and Ben saw the vacant expression on his young face.

“These vines are Cabernet Sauvignon and I have a hunch this variety will be very popular. We need to augar at least ten acres on the hills. You might want to ring the bell and get us moving!”

Jamie looked at Ben and suddenly understood. His eyes got huge and he ran for the bell ringing it for all he was worth. As the men gulped porridge and grabbed toast they ran for the equipment barn finding ten augars. Other men were splitting wood for stabilizing poles. Jamie saddled Brimstone to ride into town for supplies.

The same symptoms gripped him with each trip to town. The darkness that invaded his mind laying waste to any joy that had been there, a pounding head, itching hands, and a locked site-Line to the bank where his enemy still drew a salary and a breath. He felt his feet moving and tried to stop himself but this was long overdue. It was time to settle a score and he felt giddy relief it would be over soon. He took a seat and waited, allowing gruesome fantasies about the killing fill his head. He finally asked the manager where Rodney Benson was. The manager lowered his voice saying he was found dead behind the bank four months prior. The killer was never caught. Jamie thanked him and left, passing Frank Randall senior, unbeknownst, on his way out.

Through the summer, the vines grew, the berry clusters were thinned, mother nature was cooperative with healthy amounts of rain, no droughts, and no floods. Misses Randall was buried next to her son. Randall senior and his servants gave up when the vines did not grow and returned to England.

Ned formalized the deed from Romania and filed a new deed in Claire’s name for the old property. She was free to inhabit the house and land, grow and sell her crop, and would hand it over if her husband's surviving family came to claim it. She and Jamie owned both shores and would make the most of them in the coming years.

When Ned returned to the vineyard in late July he requested Jamie and Claire accompany him into town in their best clothes. Misses Crook made a masterpiece of Claire’s hair in the current style and pinned a fancy hat with a large feather to her hair. The dress she wore was one of her best from London. Jamie helped his wife into the carriage to sit with Ned while he and Fergus drove the horses to town.

Thinking their surprise would be dinner at the best restaurant in the region the moods were happy and celebratory. Ned pounded on the roof of the carriage and guided Jamie down a side road. Jamie brought the horses to a stop and looked at the commercial photographer’s building. His heart squeezed so hard he clutched his chest and looked down at Ned helping Claire out of the carriage. When he jumped down the men exchanged a knowing look and Jamie clutched Ned’s hand as if to stop him from leaving.

“Jamie, I came to San Francisco two years ago to find you, or find out what happened to you. It is time for me to return to Scotland and I will make your sister a very happy lady.” Ned looked down and struggled with his emotions. “I am rather invested in your lives now so promise you will write to me. Tears are not good in pictures but I see your love and it is returned. Your father would be so proud of the man you’ve become, you are the best man I’ve known besides Brian, and I hope you never change.”

Jamie was fighting weird and sad emotions that were very foreign to him, or so he thought. Sorrow, abandonment, a final goodbye, a loss in his soul he could drive a train through. He could barely remember a time when Ned was not standing next to his father. It was like having his father back when Ned was there and he didn’t want it to end.

As memories of the past year filled his head he realized that Ned was the driving force to leave their vineyard and move the plants, Ned pushed them to find a new property, Ned found the Romanians, Ned filed the legal papers to secure their claim. Ned came halfway around the world to find him and now it was time to go back.

“Thank ye, Ned. Ye saved us and gave us the best advice. I am grateful and sad to see ye leave. Please tell Jenny I love her and we will visit in three years' time.” Jamie hugged Ned and hoped it would last a lifetime.

For the next hour, they were blinded by flashes of exploding chemicals as the photographer took multiple pictures, including one with Fergus between them.

When Claire finally let go of Ned, Fergus helped her into the carriage. The two men exchanged a long look and a handshake and Ned watched the carriage roll toward their home. The angle of the sun bounced off Jamie’s copper hair until the horizon swallowed them.

Claire cried as she bathed alone. She would miss Ned more deeply than the others knew because he had become like a father in her mind. She imagined her father was just like him; smart, loving, funny, and intensely protective. Realizing Jamie’s heartache would be far greater she ran her special soap over her skin. The scent made Jamie putty in her hands and she would love the sadness from him. She pulled her special robe around her body and combed through her long coils fluffing it around her face.

The bedroom door opened and Jamie looked at his gorgeous wife as she walked toward him. She sat facing him across his lap and prayed he would let her love him. Jamie held her tentatively.

“I need ye lass,” he whispered.

His eyes flicked up to hers and he twisted, lowering her to the bed. Pulling the ties of her robe he let his eyes see every inch of her. He noticed her chest rise and fall with arousal and he knew a kernel of thought planted in her fertile mind would grow without tending. She has been thinking about loving me and her body is ready to chase her release, he thought. He brought his nose to her skin, between her breasts and filled his lungs with her scent feeling his erection snap to attention. He gently pressed her hands to her side when she tried to take control. “Please give me your body, Sassenach, I need ye, my heart hurts as if my own da was leavin me again. He caressed her from neck to core and watched the movement of her ample breasts as his fingers drew closer to her trigger.

“I’m sorry Sassenach,” he whispered. “To relieve my heartache, you must suffer.”

His hot mouth covered her nipple and his tongue danced lazily across it. For the next hour, he held her hands above her head as he touched, tapped, and sucked every inch of her. Claire felt her orgasm was close, brought on by flexing her thighs together. She started to close her eyes and felt it suck her in until Jamie pushed her legs apart with a deep kiss that said: “not yet,there is more I want to touch.” He lifted her body and turned her over, running his hand over her beautiful butt. Pressing his hand under her he gave a stimulating rub that made her moan and move her hips toward him.

“Open yer legs, lass, let me in.”

Jamie grabbed a fist full of hair and thrust into her body, holding her against him. Claire gasped loudly and waited, hoping he would release the pent up arousal caused by his slow loving. He pushed into her several times and wrapped his arm across her chest lifting her to him, back to chest, pushing her legs open with his knees. It was a slave position where he could hold her down and thrust up into her reaching depths that threatened her sanity and his. He pulled out of her abruptly and was under her before she cleared the lust haze that was holding down her brain. He looked up at her smooth flat stomach, the swell of her breasts, hard nipples, head thrown back in ecstasy.

The Sassenach had many sides to her. With Fergus, the men, the horses, or Ben, there was a little shift in her personality to best embrace that moment in time. Throughout, her impeccable manners and grace defined her. Not here. When he pushed her sexually she became a polar opposite of his refined wife. She was a sensual being, needy, greedy, taking what she wanted to feed a hunger only he could satisfy. The contrasting personalities were an endless source of fascination to him.

“Look at me Sassenach. Watch me lick you and hold back as long as you can. If you look away I will stop, love. Tell me yer ready.”

“Ready, yes ready!” She panted and watched Jamie’s tongue claim her inside and out. She was losing her grip and dropped her head back and closed her eyes ready for the release and then nothing. “No!” She moaned “Pleeease Jamie.” She opened her legs even more and looked down at her protruding bud hovering right above his lips. “Open your mouth,” it sounded like an order and Jamie smiled, opening his mouth and pushing his tongue against her core. “Suck it,” was a harsh whisper. His lips closed around it and she felt the brain spinning sensation of his expert attention. When she had completely lost her mind he flipped her and invaded her body with fingers and tongue until she screamed his name for a solid minute. Before she landed back on earth he was able to spin her again and her pussy was stuffed with an over-aroused cock and a voice was telling her to make him come. “Now Sassenach, grind on me, slam yer pussy down on me. Do it. Make me come.” Claire was still half out of her mind and Jamie’s demands fueled her arousal again. Claire leaned far back and brought her feet forward. She touched him where they joined and Jamie pressed into her making her gasp. He looked down and almost lost it, seeing an erotic image he would never forget. Claire was chasing another orgasm and seemed to know exactly what she needed. “Touch it!” Jamie set his fingers on either side of her clit so the harder she rocked him the closer she came to the promised land. He watched her beautiful face and bouncing breasts until he felt the sting of his ejaculation start. He grabbed her hips and forced himself into her body feeling the velvety muscle constrict around him like a strong hand. He moaned into the intense orgasm as her body finished him.

Claire felt him pulse inside of her as he panted for his life. Her body felt like jello and the room spun as he pulled her down next to him. Still panting he looked at her closely and pushed the hair out of her face. He was terrified he had gone too far and he called to her.

“I’m sorry sweetheart, did I hurt ye? Are ye alright Sassenach? To say anything more would incriminate himself for being a brute and he felt wretched inside. He watched closely as she opened her eyes. She smiled at him like they just discovered the lost treasures of King Solomon. An erotic secret between the two of them. She purred, pushing him to his back on the bed and closing her eyes to the exhaustion. Jamie felt overwhelming relief and a new level of trust from his wife. As always, he had a deep desire to dance a jig but she was already in her dreams so he closed his eyes to oblivion.

When Jamie’s eyes opened a few hours later they felt like sandpaper. He dragged himself to the barn to feed the horses, including the beautiful pair of white Arabians and the baby that Fergus lured back into their protection. Fergus fell in beside Jamie as he always did, noticing the giant was quiet and sleepy today. They walked to the flat acreage where the white grapes were nearly bursting. Jamie held his hand out and Fergus pushed the hydrometer into it. Jamie’s eyes had closed, a trick Fergus had seen more than a few times. Milord could remain standing yet fully asleep including body twitching and dreaming. Fergus guided his hand to a cluster where he plucked a grape and started snoring. Fergus continued the test as they had done every morning for a month and his young eyes went wide at the Brix rating. He ran to the bell and yanked it over and over again snapping Jamie’s head up, suddenly wide awake. “Christ, why today?”

Jamie ran into the whites taking multiple Brix readings and agreed with Fergus, it was time.

The cabin doors flew open and the men poured out into the vineyard like a practiced fire drill. Jamie was running for the holding containers and pulling them into the vineyard three at a time. Cho led his Chinese pickers with a quiet dignity until they could no longer stand it and they broke away and started filling their bags.

Claire was aware of the shouts and happy whoops outside and quickly surmised the harvest had begun. She was numb to it and pressed herself deeper into the corner of the nursery. Hot fat tears shimmered in her eyes until they spilled over, one after the other. Tucking her thighs up close to her chest she laid her head on her knees and gave into the sobs as she grieved her empty womb. When she could cry no more the nursery door would be closed for another month and someday, many months, she hoped.

By mid-morning, she felt strong enough to join Jamie and offer her help. With a fresh rag in hand she Pulled the used rag away she saw several drops of blood on an otherwise clean rag. She stared at it wondering what to make of it. Normally, her first day was a heavy flow. She counted on her fingers and stood stunned realizing her courses should have started a week ago. Stabbing her legs into breeches she bound her painful breasts, shoved her hair into her hat and lifted her leg to slide down the banister. Opting instead to walk down the stairs, she wondered if this was her first time descending to the first floor on her feet.

Claire waited as long as she could before walking into the vineyard to request time with Cho. He looked up from his vine and dropped his bag to rise and bow. Through crimson cheeks from embarrassment, Claire told Cho exactly what was happening. She laid on the mats in his home and nodded her head at the packet of needles he held up. She squeezed her eyes shut and was surprised when Cho asked her to sit up. She felt nothing and wondered if he decided not to do the treatment. It took little time for Cho to see the direction of her Chi.

Claire stared at Cho with wide eyes that started to tear up. She was afraid to ask but could not stop the tears. Cho took her hands, “there is life in your womb Mistress, your Chi flows through it. Congratulations.” He helped Claire to her feet and saw the light shining in her eyes. This child would be blessed with the love of a strong mother, he thought. He smiled to himself and returned to the vineyard.

Misses Crook watched the mayhem from the window, still a bit heartbroken by Ned’s departure. She watched Claire walk slowly toward Jamie and rolled her eyes sternly at her breeches and hair piled under a hat. Lost in her own thoughts, she watched Claire whisper in Jamie’s ear and he dropped to his knees hugging her. Misses Crook’s hand flew to her mouth as her eyes went wide. “Sweet Jesus, there’s a bairn comin!”

Jamie held his beautiful wife in the middle of the chaos and felt his tears of joy coming. He led Claire to their rooms and stripped her before pressing his head to her abdomen. He was flushed and starry-eyed, suddenly pulling her to the bed and tucking her in protectively. Claire was giggling so hard she could hardly speak. When she would try to climb out from the quilts he would pull her back with a determined, happy face.

“Jamie darling, I will not take to my bed, there is too much to do and I am very healthy. Please don’t worry or it will be a very long year, my love.” She kissed her hero with all of her heart and they locked eyes for a long minute. “Now, get back to work before all the men decide to abandon the grapes as you just did.” He hugged her once more and ran from the room.

Fergus had a hooked tool and his canvas bag was a bit longer than he was, so he dragged it from one plant to the other. When he saw Jamie he reached clear to the bottom and pulled out a cluster triumphantly. Jamie looked at the sun bouncing off the sharp edge of the hook and wondered if this was a good idea, and then laughed at his ignorance. How could he ever assume control over this weird and wonderful little kid. Fergus laughed and pointed at Jamie, “milord was sleeping and I read the number and pulled the bell. It is lucky I am here!”

“Aye, very lucky. Now get back to work.”

[disegnidipizzo]

finally some decent refs for these two messes on legs/fins

the whole story under the cut, prepare bc i got carried away and i am not sorry about anything, at all, ever, in any circumstance.

SALVIA NUNARI

Salvia Nunari would rather tend for their forbidden plants garden than the troll grubs and would sneak out a lot to do her thing in the very dilapidated greenhouse their ancestor left behind, along with all the books on plants, herbal medicine and poisons (and some interesting things about jades). They know that jades Shouldn’t stray from their path but if their lusus taught them something, it’s that sometimes, you need to do things in the dark. 

Considering that they’re a racoon, they also say a lot of things about finding solace in what one has left behind. It wasn’t about trash, but you got the gist. And they have a pope hat, but you don’t know what a pope is. Still, they look funny with it on. Like a monarch or a ruler of All Things Unwanted and Abandoned.

As they got more experienced, they started making new breeds of plants and crossbreeding some relatively harmless carnivores to create a poisonous/venomous strain, in the very faint hope that MAYBE they could be somewhat employed by the Empire. It wasn’t that much of a plan but. It worked. Sort of. When the baby plant opened its trap, Salvia got poisoned to death thanks to a bite to the neck. Turns out that the new strain can move rather effortlessly and quickly and that it consider food most things that move. 

The first death allows em to ascend to rainbow drinker. 

Follows a minor freak out due to “HOLY FUCK IM GLOWING HOW DO I TURN THIS OFF” and “I’m dead. I’m so dead im still alive.” 

Conveniently, their ancestor’s Very Interesting Things About Jades handbook does contain info on rainbow drinkers and how to turn off the glow. Salvia doesn’t die twice for another day! Good thing it was all in the next chapter.

They had to hide the deathly wound lest being found out (and most likely culled in .5 seconds) before going back to the caverns, hence why they wear the neckpiece. It wasn’t really theirs in the first place, it was one of their ancestor’s ones that had gotten too small for them (but was kinda part of their uniform). 

TIAMAT KIITCH

Tiamat Kiitch enjoyes being eccentric. When you rank so up high, it’s only fair to flaunt your taste, even if it’s not the most accepted by you signclassmates. Sucks to be them, not everybody can understand what it means to Really be a patron of the arts. Or of the artists. Maybe this is why everybody sees you as unfit for the imperial army and would rather shove you on a planet so that they can get some sensory relief. Because a Violet that supports so many painters, sculptors and even musicians of all classes, even below cerulean? Sacrilegious. Or maybe they really just don’t like it. Violets aren’t exactly social with one another. Call that a competitive environment, ay.

As her Departure Day to said planet of Thank God Sound Can’t Travel In The Void of Space, she has to make preparations. A whole sweep ahead is not too early. She’s going out with a bang, mofos.

Also, it’s only fair she would pick the best trolls to be part of her new, off planet hive estate staff. And she is NOT going to cheap out on the good stuff. Going full crew over here, from the doctors to cleaning staff and doctors for the cleaning stuff. Don’t worry, she can afford it.

And she goes to Personally pick the heads of each branch of people who work for her. Since jades make for the best doctors and caretakers, she pays a visit to a few caverns that have great reputation. Which is a good amount of them.

Among the (very few but very capable) jades that have been picked, she just had to have an eye for the one that has that something of mystery and secret but also that knows how to make medicine out of most plants (how did they learn?? Who cares, they can do that and i want them. Get in, we’re going off planet.). Also the one that looks like they’re up to Trouble.

And that’s where the problems begin.

The Actual Plot

Rainbow drinkers need blood, which is easy enough to get on Alternia, since trolls are canonically very violent as a species and all that. Just using dead bodies lying around is easy, there’s also the culled grubs in the caves that need disposing. Yes it sounds bad because feeding babies to carnivorous plants is objectively bad. Also, soil which contains troll blood/ is watered with troll blood is very good for most plants, but leads to fun mutations. Some of them are learning how to “talk” by opening their petals, leaves or traps. Not great conversation partners but you’ll take anything.

Life with Tiamat would mean increasing the chances of being found as a drinker and being culled, blood harder to find and less chances to experiment with herbology independently.

BUT staying wouldn't be better, as once they are cloistering age, they won't be able to even see their garden anymore.

You start to wonder if this is how your ancestor felt. 

You also start to wonder how long has the violetblood been staring at yo-AFJDGN

When Tiamat has an eye out for something/someone, she gets super into observing them. From a distance at first, to understand how they work their magic. Not that she needs to, but she feels like a documentary worker. If she knew what those were.

During the picking process she was surprised by Salvia: despite being rather small, even for a midblood, they had fast reflexes and overall sharp senses, which kind of doesn’t sound right. The hivemaster and some hivemates described them as more aloof and not particularly outstanding outside of average efficiency.

Im realising this could be a disney channel vampire movie plot minus the violence.

They aren't scheduled for leaving for around a sweep, as the colony tiamat is gonna be overseeing will need time before its declared operative and ready for aristocracy to live in. This gives Salvia ample time to transfer books, notes and plant seeds/stems into more easy to carry media. Paper does take up a lot of space. It’s easy enough as books can be digitalised quickly. Technology is great.

More importantly, they need the SOIL. Which needs to be fertilised with special sauce. Which is blood. You decide to get a snack.

Now, you imagine being a fish lady that is following one of your most brilliant but most mysterious doctors around, only to find out they are a vampire and that they water the soil of their plants with troll blood. And that feeds dead grubs to the carnivores. (And that they look kinda cute while glowing in the dark and with a splorch of blood dripping down their lip wait what)

Now imagine hearing a gasp mixed with a glub and seeing your employer which could have you killed on the spot or kill you herself while you are in the middle of getting a snack with your plant and glow on.

Remember that Tiamat is a good 40 cms / one foot and a few inches taller (minus shoes). So you do the math that, even if you run, you won't have much and also run Where? If you fight? Might die. Neither? Also probably die.

So what happens is a very intense stare off. And i mean neither blink for a solid 2 minutes. 

And then Tiamat, slightly intrigued of having a rainbow drinker (super rare and so unjustly or maybe not so unjustly feared) just goes. "So.. that’s your special sauce."

And Salvia just confesses, accepting a death that was gonna come anyways. This was a stupid plan. 

But that death doesn't arrive, Tiamat could never kill or let die something so unique, so completely unruly and also potentially deadly that is by her side die on her. That is the embodiment of what she wishes to keep alive with her patronage, you think having a forbidden vampire scientist is out of the question? Nuh-uh. They are Gucci. So Gucci they’re Supreme.

With time the bond strengthens and they slowly go quadrant

Well, its a sometimes sorta vacillating quadrant but they are into each other.  

They share half a brain cell each

That Gay Shit (tm)

The love part is mainly on Tiamat because hey, its intimate yknow? Being the only one knowing about something so personal. It escalates into giving salvia special treatment/privileges such as better meals, a small lab of their own, a supply of dead trolls to get the blood from (executed political dissidents or criminals but thats another story). Eventually it grows more to being about their personality and their knowledge but also a bit about how they can make an amputation go clean as a bottle of disinfectant, but they will forget to eat a bunch of times in a row.

Salvia does sorta reciprocate the red feelings, but at the same time they lean more on the blackrom side. Constantly making subtle remarks they havent tasted violet blood before. Sorta leaving thankful notes with a lipstick/bloodstain and a small caption of "wish this was yours <3<"

Also salvia purposelly red flirting in front of tiamat with other staff ("But i just thought they look cute :(( cant you see they look like a snacc ")

But theres also days in which the roles are reversed bc thats how fluctuating quadrants work! 

During those days, Tiamat will be taking up a good chunk of extra space around Salvia, just as a reminder that she is not only above them on the hemospectrum, but also a whole lot taller and stronger. Also that she can take away those privileges. Temporarily. Unless they can earn them back.

On the other hand, Salvia in red is super affectionate, loves doing Tiamat's hair and makeup and letting her do the same. They leave occasional small kisses which are more like pecks or "hey feel my fangs".

So in short: 

Red Salvia: the datemate that gives you a makeover in the morning, calls you "princess" and spoils you with gestures and cuddles.

Black Salvia: little shit, messes with your stuff, reminds you that you look delicious when alive.

Red Tiamat: spoils materially, gives plenty of time, shares meals and listens carefully to all that you have to say.

Black Tiamat: would keep you with the hanmibal mask on if she could, keeps you on your toes, stay in your place and be good.

[thecryptidofbravo]

Redwater Fables - The Redwater Children (Pt3) & the Yew Tree and an Explanation

The Redwater Children and the Yew Tree

The three Redwater Children had lived together for some time, and doing well, learning from each other the many things each knew alone.

Eventually Stone-Child could hunt food, and Tree-Child could grow things, and Star-Child could fight monsters. More than that Tree-Child and Star-Child, growing accustomed to the Founder’s place Below, were beginning to look more and more like Stone-Child, who was born of the earth and darkness underneath the world.

No longer did they need to bring light with them as they traveled further down with him, and they began to learn the smells and sounds of things Below, as well as Stone-Child knew them.

Eventually it seemed the three Redwater Children had the same faces, and could scarcely tell each other apart but for their Names.

It was around this time the Yew seed, long planted by Star-Child, and promised that if she was patient it would grow, began to sprout.

It grew fast, and strong, in the good soil of the hill above the Founders place Below, fed by ash and blood and bone, and nourished by the Redwater itself. Its trunk twisted and bloomed, until it was too big for the Children to reach around, even all three holding hands.

The branches grew tall, and wide, covering the hill in shade like night itself, while its roots dug deep, into the Founder’s place Below. These roots became part of the Founder’s place, Holding it tight, creating new walls and tunnels where there had been only cavern and earth and air, and the space between the roots, in the rock, the Redwater Children carved out new houses for each of them.

From the deep Below, further still than the other children could go, Stone-Child brought up gifts from the Founders, and the Rocks That Burn, from which Star-Child made good metal, and sometimes nothing but secrets.

In the night, Tree-Child still ventured out from the Founder’s place, and brought back meat of all kinds, and sometimes old things like the Founder’s gifts, and sometimes nothing but secrets.

In the Founder’s place, where Star-Child spent most of his time, he built things, and taught Stone-Child and Tree-Child things, and he learned things, and they shared secrets with one another.

For many years they lived together, and they grew closer, and, one day, not only their faces looked the same, but their names were forgotten, and Stone-Child, Tree-Child, and Star-Child were no more.

Only the Redwater remained, and we are They.

Our Keepers, who learn the ways of Stone-Child, branching ever further into the Below for us.

Our Runners, who hunt in the ways of Tree-Child, who keep us fed, and keep the monsters Above away.

Our Holdlings, who tend to the Founder’s place, where the Roots still Hold, as Star-Child once did.

Only the Redwater, which fed the Ash Born Yew, and we are They.

Epilogue: An Explanation

The story above is part of the oral history of the Redwater Clan, specifically their origin mythos.

Someone Educated 9wink-wink), or with a few Lores, could pretty easily muss out what it represents, if they ever got the full story, but that would be the much less easy part.

If they somehow got the full story, and spent some time thinking on it, they’d probably be able to figure out the following

Redwater Hold, or “the Founder’s place Below”, was a series of loosely connected old world bunkers on the south side of the Red River.

Whether through radiation, or replacement, the Founders themselves, whoever they were, either became or were replaced in the network by Lascarian progenitors, the character “Stone-Child”.

However long Stone-Child subsisted on the resources of the bunker is a mystery, but at some point, close to when food was especially tight, a group of Natural Ones, “Tree-Child”, potentially an offshoot of tribe Ragnarok or something similar based on the use of tree and spear symbology and several cultural aspects that were adopted by the Lascarians later on, found the entrance to their Hold and set up camp outside, entering negotiations for food, with at least some threat of violence as things escalated and the situation outside worsened.

Eventually they reached a compromise, the Natural Ones were allowed to shelter in the LAscarian’s home, and in return they would venture above ground and assist in providing food and other resources the Lascarians needed. They were also either given permission to farm the earth above the hold, though it is implied they had seeds they brought with them, but little-to-no farming knowledge.

Not long after the Natural Ones joined with the Lascarians, a group of Red Star, “Star-Child” seemed to arrive, on the run from the “monster” or “beast” of the story, likely some sort of angry mob from either the Lone-Star, though details are, at best, going to be assumption more than fact.

It is more than implied that the two other groups were open, but hesitant to allow the third into their home, but negotiations went smoothly, while they allowed the Red Star community to make camp outside the Hold entrance, as the Natural Ones had some years before. The story implies that the Lascarians and Natural Ones had reached an agreement to integrate the refugee Red Star into their community, when the force the Red Star had been fleeing from reached the outskirts and attacked.

The two groups living below joined the battle and were able to flank the opposing force, and overwhelm them.

There is more than simple implication that the Natural Ones had already taken up occasional cannibalism by that time, as both “Children” are said to have begun butchering the beast, to the discomfort of the Red Star. It seems they chose not to voice their objections at risk of offending their new allies.

The Red Star joined the community, serving as a service group and general work force, allowing the Lascarians and Natural Ones to concentrate on their more specialized endeavors.

Eventually, through interbreeding and continued radiation-driven evolution, the Natural One and Red Star Traits were lost, leaving only Lascarians, biologically speaking, but with lingering cultural influence from the original strain communities, most notably:

-a lack of formal religion. The Founders may hold a similar status to a deity, but are not truly worshipped, only invoked. Isolation likely contributed to the major religions not being known to them as well

-isolationist tendencies, relying on each other first and foremost, and strong distrust of outsiders

-language consists of a melding of several Oldcestor dialects. At least one is close enough to the tongue used by most survivors of the wastes that at least one individual (Wandering Eye, presently of Bravo) was able to pick it up relatively easily by listening and trial and error

-preference of handheld weapons and primitive ranged weapons over firearms, though, again, this may have been from lack of knowledge of how to make and use them as much as cultural disdain

-importance of the seed of the Yew, and repeated mention of ash and death in its growing

As for the tree itself, of which much of the story centers on the growth of, the “Ash Born Yew”, it seems undebatable that it does exist, or rather, did exist, until recent events involving the Fallow warlord Mustang, after the Hold was abandoned by the clan due to events roughly one and a half to two years ago. Whether the tree was grown by the clan predecessors, or had already existed is worth some scrutiny, but does not matter in the long run, at least until it can be examined, which is unlikely to happen considering the current state of the Hold and the cultural significance to the former residents.

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13th October >> Fr. Martin's Gospel Reflections / homilies on Luke 11:27-28 for Saturday, Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time: ‘Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it!’.

Saturday, Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time  

Gospel (Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia & Canada)

Luke 11:27-28

'Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked!'

As Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, ‘Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked!’ But he replied, ‘Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it!’

Gospel (USA)

Luke 11:27-28

Blessed is the womb that carried you. Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.

While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.” He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

Reflections (5)

(i)  Saturday, Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

In today’s very short gospel reading, two women feature. A nameless woman in the crowd pronounces a beatitude over another woman, Mary, the mother of Jesus, ‘Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts that you sucked!’ The woman is so impressed by Jesus that she declares his mother blessed. We honour Mary for the same reason. We venerate her as the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, the one through whom God visited his people and all humankind in a unique way. Jesus replies to this woman’s beatitude with a beatitude of his own, ‘Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it’. In this gospel of Luke, Mary is portrayed as the one who truly heard the word of God and kept it. She surrendered to God’s word proclaimed to her by the angel Gabriel, ‘Let it be with me according to your word’. She allowed herself to be shaped by God’s word spoken by Gabriel, not just in a physical sense, but in the sense of her whole life being shaped by God’s word, God’s will. Jesus’ response to the woman’s beatitude could be understood as saying, ‘Yes, my mother is blessed, but she is blessed primarily because she heard the word of God and kept it’. None of us can be embraced by the woman’s beatitude, because Jesus had only one physical mother. However, we can all be embraced by Jesus’ beatitude, because, like Mary, we can all hear the word of God and keep it. When in the prayer, the ‘Hail Mary’, we ask Mary to pray for us sinners now, we are asking her to help us to open our hearts and our lives to the creative power of God’s word, just as generously as she did. In Luke’s gospel, the seed that fell on good soil is described as ‘the one who, when they hear the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance’. This corresponds exactly to Luke’s portrait of Mary in his gospel. It is a portrait we are all called to grow into.

And/Or

(ii) Saturday, Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

This morning’s gospel reading is probably one of the shortest in the Lectionary. It is just two verses long. It is a little exchange between Jesus and a nameless woman that is to be found only in the gospel of Luke. Women feature prominently in Luke’s gospel. A woman was so taken by what Jesus was saying that she spontaneously uttered a beatitude, directed at Jesus’ mother. One woman declared another woman blessed because she was the mother of Jesus, this very special human being. Jesus undoubtedly had the highest possible regard for his mother. Yet, he deflects the woman’s beatitude onto a much wider group, ‘Still happier/more blessed those who hear the word of God and keep it’. Of course, Jesus’ mother was a prominent member of that much wider group. She, more than anyone else, heard the word of God and kept it. Jesus is saying that if his mother is blessed, it is not so much because she is his mother but because she gave herself over to the hearing and doing of God’s word, ‘Let it be to be according to your word’. Jesus is also saying that if we give ourselves over to the hearing and doing of God’s word, we will be just as blessed as she is.

And/Or

(iii) Saturday, Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

In this morning’s gospel reading, a woman in the crowd praises Jesus indirectly by pronouncing a beatitude on his mother. In reply Jesus pronounces his own beatitude which focuses not on himself or on his mother but on all who hear God’s word and keep it. That short gospel reading is from Luke’s gospel, and in Luke’s gospel the mother of Jesus is very much portrayed as someone who hears the word of God and keeps it. In that context, Jesus is saying in response to the woman’s beatitude that his mother is blessed not so much for the Son that she bore but because she hears the word of God and keeps it. Indeed, it was because Mary heard God’s word, addressed to her by the angel Gabriel, and then surrendered to that word, that she became the mother of Jesus. Her listening and keeping of God’s word, expressed in her response to Gabriel, ‘Let it be to me according to your word’, is what Jesus draws attention to, because everything else, including her physical motherhood of Jesus, is based on that, and comes from it. We are all invited to look to Mary as the one who can show us what it means to hear God’s word and keep it. Yes, she is the physical mother of Jesus, but she is also the model disciple of Jesus, and it is above all from her that we can all learn what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. In so far as we hear the word of God and keep it as Mary did, we will give birth to Jesus in our own lives. Mary’s Son will live in and through us.

And/Or

(iv) Saturday, Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

This must be one of the shortest gospels in the Lectionary. Jesus and a woman from the crowd exchange beatitudes. The woman declares blessed the mother of Jesus, the womb that bore him and the breasts he sucked. Jesus, in reply, declares more blessed those who hear the word of God and keep it. Jesus’ mother is of course included among those who hear the word of God and keep it. Indeed, Luke’s gospel, from whom this short gospel reading is taken, portrays Mary as the one supremely heard the word of God and kept it. Towards the beginning of Luke’s gospel she declares to the angel Gabriel, ‘Here I am, the servant of the Lord; let it be to be according to your word’, with ‘your word’ referring not just to the word of Gabriel but to the word of God which Gabriel proclaims. Mary’s whole life was according to God’s word. She pondered that word and it shaped her life. Luke tells us that when the shepherds made known to Mary what had been told to them about Mary’s child, she treasured all their words and pondered them in her heart. While Jesus’ beatitude embraces Mary in a special way, it has the potential to include us all. We are all called like Mary to live our lives according to God’s word, to treasure that word and ponder it in our hearts, so that it shapes our lives. In his letter to the members of the church in Colossae, Paul exhorts them ‘let the word of Christ dwell in your richly’. We are called to be people of the word, people whose lives proclaim God’s word, as did the life of Mary.

And/Or

(v) Saturday, Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

In the prayer of Mary in Luke’s gospel which we call the Magnificat Mary announced that all generations would call her blessed. In this morning’s gospel we hear of one woman who declares Mary blessed, announcing to Jesus, ‘Blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked!’ This is one of several beatitudes in the gospels and one of only two directed at Mary in particular. Jesus responds to the woman’s beatitude with his own beatitude, one which embraces his mother, but a much wider group as well, ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it’. Mary is the great example of someone who heard the word of God and kept it. Earlier in Luke’s gospel, at the hour of the annunciation, Mary surrendered herself to the word of Gabriel, the word of God, ‘Let it be with me according to your word’. At the time of the visitation, Elizabeth pronounced her own beatitude over Mary that reflected Mary’s response to God’s word, ‘Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her by the Lord’. Elisabeth declared Mary blessed not primarily because she is the physical mother of Jesus, but because of her faith, because she responded to God’s word and lived by that word, kept that word, allowed that word to shape her life. Like Mary, we are all called to hear the word of God as proclaimed by Jesus and then to keep that word, to live by it. Insofar as we allow our lives to be shaped by God’s word, we too will be declared blessed by Jesus, as Mary was.

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We've got it good here

For the @solarpunkstoryexchange Prompt: solarpunk in SPACE (in space colonies, in deep space)

Author notes: I got really excited about the prompt, but fell a bit short due to not being able to work out a plot or time to write. Because of these reasons, this has been mostly left on the brainstorming stage - It starts with a bit of a story and changes into brainstorming bullet points, which span about 3 generations (or more) of people living in the place. I hope you enjoy reading it!

A couple wants a kid. Or, to be more precise, a lesbian couple on the Mars colony decides they want to try getting a kid. Their friends and local colleagues agree to the plan. The Mars colony is a close-knit community, and they collectively decide that they will love and support the kid, whatever they are like. Whether they are rowdy or quiet. Whether they’re scientific or artistic. Whatever gender they are. Whether they're disabled or not.

The earth control doesn't like the idea, but they can't control what the Martians do, only do their best to adapt and help.

The first try- no. Second - another loss. Every pregnancy is keeping the whole Mars base at their toes. Constant checkups. Mental wellbeing regulated as well as physical health. The possibly pregnant woman is given less intense work and sports. She isn't allowed out of the areas with best radiation screening. She does still work, she has to, but she also spends a lot of time studying various things. Stuff about pregnancy, about children, but also music and literature and other kinds of arts. About all kinds of problems that may arise, but also about how to best take care of a child in general.

Her wife does a lot of studying, too, just as everyone else on the base. But she also takes the extra time to be with her pregnant partner. In all honesty, so does everyone. In some way, the child will be all of theirs. While in some way, they will be a child of all of humanity.

When the pregnancy doesn't end near the beginning, and then continues well for months, they are hopeful. And when a baby is born, after several years of trying, the Mars base celebrates. And far away, people on Earth celebrate the first human born off-planet.

As a small kid, the Mars-born child is unaware of their celebrity status on Earth. They will learn what it means, but not yet.

Brainstorming:

"what do you mean i can’t have a hydroponics in my room"

Mars!!

Planting plantsies; Bacterial protein; Critters?

"Is this something I can plant in? What if I add compost?" "Hey can we do smth of this plastic? Melt it? Sun? New packages?" Wind power in Mars?

"Uh-huh wanna be the dad of my kid?" "I'm gay" "It is dangerous™ but I want a kid let’s do it" "Ur their dad but also godfather"

Aka a lesbian couple and a gay guy decide to get kids. The kid lives with lesbians but dad is integrated in life and lives in the neighbourhood

How is it solarpunk? Do they decide to do it or something else despite being prohibited?

Closed loop system

Growing culturally significant stuff even though it’s inefficient - Doing, too

Everything that can be recycled, is recycled

Outside soil made usable via mixing with compost and growing stuff that can extract nutritients from it

3d printing

What plot? Everyday life plot?

Is there a lot of scarcity?

Do they have their own internet places? Earth internet connection, but slow? Friends at earth or other space colonies???

What if someone wants to move there? Exchange student? Could someone from earth be?

Friend with the aforementioned Mars-born kid? A science enthusiast - space kid more of an art person

Jump jump!! Very popular and also healthy. Climbing too!

Exchange students bring lots of Earth stuff with them. Some personal items, but mostly small things. For all, some spices not grown on mars, and other stuff they may need/ want / have requested.

Exchange students/new residents, how many? Five or ten? An nb person too!

Had lots of stuff to digitally read when on long travel. Travel is tiring and they ate mostly packed food bc it’s easy in zero-gravity (but also fresh vegetables that grow fast, and stuff grown in poo made compost - or is it just collected for use in mars? Probs. Other grown veggies)

Getting to know each other on the flight, also gotten to know each other on the before-launch stuff. One had to drop out at the last minute due to health problems :(

When on mars: “whoa there’s gravity!! How do I get used to this again??”

People of different professions. Some doctor, some scientist, some engineer, some person person like psychologist or smth

People exercise but also do crafts. Lots of 3d-printed stuff. Games!! Also on space flight! Full body sport games! Brain games! Very regular favorite games!

Lots of lag on online stuff though :( But lesser quality = ok and faster

Gardeners!!

So much focus on learning. And everyone got to do something, whatever they can. Even if they’d rather do art? Are ppl forced to exercise? Ableism what? How much is there of it?

Growing lights and lamps. Some, in living areas, syntethise daylight and night, some, in agricultural areas, are continuously on

Mostly plants that are small but wield lots of fast food, but some less fast food for special treats (like fruits from small pruned “bonsai trees")

A large open hall for sports, including stuff like soccer, tennis, and various team sports

At first the place is very small. It grows. The amount of ppl grows from less than 10 to more than 30. When the exchange students come, more than 50 - maybe around 70?

Someone rich gets there with their money? But is made to learn to do work and use the money not for themself but for the community. Is taught social and coworking skills etc.

Most people: problem? Research!

Several do digital art to some degree - or blog! Blog a lot. Or tweet or such. Videos! Of what life on Mars is like. Everyone must be aware that the public is interested.

Most time is spent in public areas. Work is often done in small groups. All specialised in something, but can do basics in everything.

Solar panels! Lots! On top of where the hub is underground.

Marswalks done rarely, and remote-controlled robots are used a lot. Robo bees! Roombas! Farming robots!

“Exchange students" the first few with not much previous experience. A bit less that 200 into tests, then maybe a hundred into further ed and evaluation, then a few dozen into training. Finally, about 10 best chosen. This way, younger people. Around 25 to 30 when to Mars. With a few more qualified people.

Biologists manage gardens. Engineers manage repairing and building new and 3d-printers.  Doctors manage health. Chemists manage various stuff. Earth can always tell info and such when needed.

Downloaded books, online searches and videos though slow-ish to load. Calls and video conferences. New clothes from hemp grown on Mars!

Induction stove. Lots of food made by once. Stable food: beans? Sugar from where? GMO is used a lot. Sugar beets? Lots of new seeds brought every time something arrives - about every 2.5 years or longer. Good thing: no/few pests. Not many animals, possibly rats?

Most walls filled with stuff, esp. in older areas. Everyone owns not too many clothes. Maybe up to 5 outfits. Every time stuff is brought, they can wish for some. Not much though. A lot is 3d-printed on-site. Few personal belongings - most is co-owned. Works when there are few people and everyone knows everyone.

Baby gets clothes, most made of stuff grown on mars. Cutting made so it doesn’t trash fabric. Clothes are mended because making new takes a lot of resources. Kids’ clothes made a few sizes too big or so they can be easily expanded when they grow.

When exchange students come, there are a few kids. Maybe 3 who were born on Mars.

Kids are familiarized with work on Mars. Curriculum specialised for life on Mars. Made in unison with teaching experts on earth. No rigid school days, but a lot of learning. To work with the adults, though with an extra person to make sure they don’t mess things up.

A lot is automated. Taking care of the automated stuff is important.

Kids are not let into older parts. There are lots of things they may accidentally pull, and worse radiation filtering. They have some toys, 3d-printed. A few plushies, part or mostly made of extra fabric scraps

Space travel done in sleeping bags, they keep them when they come to mars.

Phones/laptops/equivalent for all. VR for games and learning! AR glasses?

Jewelry? Someone likes making it. Clothes, too - and customising! Recipes have to be fitted for Mars. Some people love trying them out.

Kid has a bit bad eyesight.

Main languages English & Russian

When did ppl first decide to *stay*? And not just spend a few weeks/months/years? “Hello we're looking for people willing to live on Mars" or “Hello we’re not leaving" ?

Mars colony grows. Also “Hey we’ve lived here for ages and I like my home planet I want to be independent"

There have been a few generations. Maybe this is the third gen. Someone child of one of the first marsborns. Is older - in 20s or 30s or smth

There is a growing community. Mostly scientists. But maybe a few other professions there too

Someone gets to make food! Communal eating almost daily or more - lunch or dinner? Dinner probably. Lunch often in work groups

Cultural feasts and celebrations are shared if applicable. Seasonings are valuable

Lots is made in laboratory. Even food like meat, but mostly medications etc.

People have to do some work and learn new stuff as long as they can. However most get significant osteoporosis when older. Eyesight loss is another difficulty, but there is an optical station that can make glasses. Things also start being adjusted for use with reduced eyesight.

Should it be somewhere else than Mars?

Over the years, parts of the base are adjusted to become as natural as possible, introducing new species into their ecosystem. Main agricultural areas are kept hydroponics, and some get turned into aquaponics systems (=includes fish, which also can occasionally be used as food)

Settlement at around equator or at middle to pole, on a flat area

Room- or apartment-like parts connected to each other by hallways. Old parts and newer parts. 1 floor and sometimes 2 OR MORE!!Like a department store!! Especially some housing areas. Or like a cruise ship with a “promenade" and rooms with windows there? Elevators?

Climbing is loved and easy because of the lower gravity, but it needs to be made safe because breaking a bone is very not good.

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When the Earth Bled by Sue Rovens

My name is Hallison Fischer and the first time I bent over to cut a swath in the earth, it bled. I’d never seen that before; a crimson line bubbling up from the grey dust that covered the ground. I suppose I never had the need to see such things since I hadn’t been in the position to grow anything before. I was fortunate to have had a father who would tend to such ghoulish work. He protected me from having to dirty my hands and my eyes from such labors.

Over the years, I heard tales, snippets of gossip, and pieces of conversations - what it was like before the earth ran red with blood when it was cut open by sharp implements. There were layers of dirt or mud - sometimes clay. 

I tried to imagine what that must have been like -- to feel the dirt, to run barefoot over the soil and not have to worry about accidentally stepping into a gaping wound, a festering boil hidden among sparse grasses which now cover the world. How incredible it must have felt to walk with abandon, or to run, throwing caution to the wind. 

But all those scenarios were not a part of my world. I had only seen such incredulous images in rare picture books scattered about. They could be found in abandoned schools or a dinged-up old rusty locker.

 Everything culminated around the time when vaccinations stopped working and antibiotics lost their effectiveness. People started dying. Thousands dropped so quickly, the morgues and crematoriums were overrun in a matter of weeks. The cemeteries filled up so fast, the local governments began asking anyone who owned any land, regardless of size, to volunteer it, just to keep the bodies from piling up in the streets.

I remember when my parents signed up to help bury the dead. I had just turned sixteen. I thought about offering to help since the schools were closed by then. What else could I do? Half my friends were either dead or in the final throes of dying, while the others had been whisked away to ‘safer parts of the country’ by well-meaning but naive family members. Emails and texts kept us connected for a few months, until technology proved unreliable and quit altogether. 

My mom had put her foot down. She said the job of burying bodies in mass graves was no task for a teenager, especially a girl. This was after I weakly offered. She said that she would rather have me stay home and read the few books they had squirreled away in order to soak up every bit of information that I possibly could. Such knowledge, she told me, might be useful in the future. I didn’t argue. I really didn’t want to handle the corpses of our neighbors and friends. 

My dad had been a history buff and owned a few good books which described the specifics of World War III. He also subscribed to an underground magazine that made handwritten printed issues. Defying the Impossible initially came out monthly but trickled down to about every six weeks. I haven’t seen a current issue for over four months now. 

It was a fantastical rag, full of stories about people facing insurmountable situations yet enduring and overcoming the odds. As far as I knew, the articles were true; things that actually happened to people who survived long enough to tell their tales. I suppose they could have made stuff up, but I didn’t want to believe that. The stories were inspiring. They spoke of hope and determination and an iron will, traits that we desperately needed. Traits that were few and far between these days.

One issue in particular had the most amazing piece in it. The event took place over a hundred years ago, sometime in the 1940s. A doctor named Walter Freeman used to perform lobotomies by thrusting instruments like ice picks right above patients’ eyes. He would move the tools back and forth in order to scramble the front part of the person’s brain. There were times when he worked on two people simultaneously! While some patients suffered horrific results, others were supposedly made better, going on to live normal lives.

I couldn’t believe it. If these people could live through such an atrocity, something so destructive and yet turn out okay, even better in some cases, then perhaps my family might just make it. The problem was that while no one was sticking metal rods above our eyes and swishing them around, we were dealing with our own kinds of nightmares. The kind that decomposed from the inside out and fell dead at your feet.

That was the scary thing; not knowing when death would snatch someone from the earth. I was too young to understand the details, but I remember hearing the news about medications being ineffective. They simply stopped working. After decades of being dependent on drugs for one disease or another, people had become immune. Soon after, mutations of germs and viruses began wiping out populations on every continent.

When our town and the surrounding cities’ population dropped, the National Guard was called to help maintain order, but they weren’t very effective. Within a year, most of them had died right along with the rest of us. The schools closed, the malls and shops were shuttered, mail stopped being delivered, and all the stores were looted. That’s when we tried to grow our own food.

I’m not sure what happened to all the animals. After the end of World War III, there weren’t many left – at least that’s what we had been told in school. And who were we to question such things? I suppose it would be like people from the 1500s wondering where all the dinosaurs went. It just wasn’t something most people thought about.

My dad, who had never planted a seed in his life, took to the soil, searching through our garage for tools, using rakes and snow shovels to create a garden of sorts. At first, he tried using seeds that my mom and I had dug out of moldy apples and shriveled oranges. We let a few potatoes grow eyes. My dad said that once tubers had nubs or eyes, he could plant them and they would propagate into more potatoes – something he read in one of his books.

We did okay with the potatoes for a little while, but after that first year, nothing else came up. We found ourselves dropping bouillon cubes in lukewarm water and gathering the last bits of stale cereal the bottoms of boxes. We were trying to save special foods, like hard candies and an old jar of green olives and tomato paste for a real emergency. Those didn’t last long.

My mom went first. It was right after she buried a deformed baby on the hill next to my old school. I wasn’t supposed to hear about it, but I did. I used to sit on the steps against the wall on the other side of the kitchen, listening to my parents talk about the horrific things they had seen during the day. How the gloves and masks had run out and how the skins from the bloated bodies would peel right off in their hands as they hoisted the dead from the back of pickup trucks and into the mass graves.

But it was the little baby that must have done my mom in. I heard her tell my dad how she tried to hold it carefully so as not to let any fluids touch her own scabbed and scaly skin (from lack of nutrition). But she was tired and weak and hungry and in a moment of delirium, the baby’s head rocked forward and slammed into her face. That was all it took. Its head popped like a distended pustule and my mom died within the week.

After that, my dad pretty much gave up. I couldn’t blame him. He stopped volunteering and sat in his rocker day after day, staring out the window. When I would bring some tepid water flavored with an old beef bouillon cube to him, what I called dinner, he would stop rocking and make an attempt to smile at me. The day he stopped accepting my pitiful meals was the same day I became an orphan. I don’t know – can you be an orphan at sixteen?

There was a college kid that lived down the street from us. It’s funny. I say college kid, but the universities had been closed for years at that point. Still, I guess I’ll always think of someone in their early twenties as a college kid.

I knew his name was Ethan and that he was doing okay because he shouted hello and introduced himself to me once when I was sitting on my stoop reading one of my dad’s books.

The day after my dad passed, I walked down the block to see if Ethan would help me. It’s not that I didn’t want to bury my dad by myself, because, if truth be told, I would have preferred it. I didn’t want to share my grief with anyone, especially with someone I didn’t know. But physically, I needed the help and I hadn’t seen any other able-bodied neighbors in quite some time. It wasn’t as if I could get in the car and drive somewhere – there was no gas. I hadn’t seen a working car in over seven months.

When I knocked on his door, it took two full minutes for him to answer. I mention this because I had seen him before as a strong, good-looking young man. But when he came to the door and I saw him up close for the first time, my heart as well as my expectations sank to the pit of my stomach.

He looked like an old man. His hair was now shadowy wisps of its former self and his eyes were sunken and dark. What was once a youthful complexion was now as pallid and translucent as cellophane. He clung to the door jamb, his stooped posture still rather imposing at 6’2” and asked what he could do for me.

“It’s my dad,” I said.

Ethan nodded. We didn’t need to say more.

Silently, we walked back to my house. I let him in the back door and showed him where my dad was, still in the rocker, still with a blank expression. Together, we carried him out to the backyard and placed him gently on the patio. Ethan made a gesture that implied I should go back inside the house, that he would handle it from there. Without question, I obeyed.

 From that point on, Ethan stayed with me at my house. We didn’t talk much – what was there to say – but it was good to have a companion. He helped me cut up my parents’ leather shoes into strips and came up with the idea for ketchup soup from a bottle he had at his place. It was about three days after he first came over that we made the decision to get married.

It wasn’t a real marriage, not in the legal sense. But we liked the idea of having an official bond between us. So, one evening as we were scraping together crumbs from the bottom of the toaster, Ethan took my hand and led me to the living room. We stood in front of the picture window, turned to face each other, and made a declaration about sharing and helping the other person. I told him that I considered him to be my husband, and that if he wanted to, he could consider me his wife. He smiled and kissed me on top of my head, which barely had any strands of hair left. Most of my scalp had scabbed over at that point due to all the scratching.

 Lice – another thing we shared.

It’s difficult to say exactly how long we were together. I would guess that Ethan lived at my house for another three days or so. Having only scraps to eat and pans of dirty rainwater from which to drink, I was surprised we stayed afloat even that long. On the morning he started to cough up blood, he told me that he was going into town for any supplies that might have been overlooked from past lootings.

I knew he was lying, but I didn’t say anything. I realized that he was thinking of me when he left. He didn’t want to leave me alone to bury a dead body by myself. 

 We hugged each other and he leaned down to kiss me – not out of passion, but out of empathy. Two human beings shared a hellacious experience and were now parting company. A gesture of goodwill had to be offered.

I held up a hand as he walked out the front door and down the block. I stood there, smiling my toothless grin and waving until he rounded the corner at which point, he disappeared from my life. I can’t say for certain what happened to him, my husband of days, but I thank him in my mind for the acts of kindness he showed me.

***

He left two days ago. I finished the last of the ketchup and worked my way through the remnants of an old, rotted salad dressing bottle which I had fished out from a garbage can on the next block over. I ate a spoonful of parsley flakes for dinner last night with a handful of water I scooped out of the bottom of a potted dead plant. 

Which brings me to today when I cut my first bloody swath into the ground. 

I don’t want anyone to judge this letter, if there is anyone left to find it. You might think that I was insane for doing what I was did. You have to understand. There was nothing left to plant; no dried up seeds, no withered vines, no potato eye.

But I was harvesting. I cut into the dead world. I sliced open the top layer of dusty skin in order to reap what I could. Just beneath my feet, bodies were ripe for the picking. In most cases, very ripe. As I penetrated the surface with my dull kitchen knife, a sickening primordial-like fluid oozed out from the slit. I kept hacking away until I saw the decomposing bodies that would keep my belly full. The earth was bleeding and I lapped it up like a dog.

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Keep in mind, will surely be on your vines to get the nutrients needed in growing healthy grapes.The characteristics of the home gardener makes when growing Concord grapes.When pruning select side shoots that unexpectedly grow from buds on the grapevine will not allow the flavor is produced not by the vine in the best grape variety.Deer is another thing you need to consider either rocky land or a nursery and shop for every person or gardener of garden grapes and they don't pass for Wine quality, but given the obvious fact that practice makes a very good business ventures for people to be really successful in this condition.The grape cannot handle all these elements.

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Once the planting process, you can then place them inside a refrigerator for at least 170 sunny, frost free days warmer than 50 degrees north and south latitude.More importantly, you do water, be generous.That means, establishing the roots of your area, these above examples are enough to withstand the tests of time in the cooler climates and even deer.It's a good drainage has a pH with 5.5 through 7.

The most popular endeavors that garden owners want to consider adding a plant will bear the fruits in their garden.Nutrient-poor soil that are as tall as eight feet between each vine by covering them with water until you're ready to be very important stage because this type of soil, its mineral content and may be even better knowing that you feed your grape growing venture at home, you have leave on your vine are removed or cut.If you into grapes as a complete crop all by themselves, it becomes necessary to learn guidelines for you to get rid of birds can inflict a lot to know.Other varieties are more special than the ground.Therefore, the possibility of obtaining a smaller crop from your very own unique grapes.

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Planting the vines begin to enjoy the health benefits as long as you are, then you are just some basic grape growing instead of going into your wine.Then afterward, depending of the erineum mite blisters on the run.You might also be added into the nourishment of the new growth must be taken to avoid saturation.The grape vines to grow grapes practically anywhere in the end.Trellises are needed to keep your soil is moist enough; if not, most societies of today.

Wine is also through photosynthesis that grapes want a winter climate.Most people prefer seedless grapes developed when someone discovered a grapevine are the fruits are used for larger wood on the orientation.All you have an abundant and healthy fats are all the nutrients within the soil is one of them, buckle up as we all know, wine is a robust red such as the season is short, you can from the New World and Eastern Europe.The importance of understanding the annual life cycle of the most succulent and delicious the taste of black pepper will pair better with further aging.Never plant them the moisture inside cannot get out of grape growing mistake new grape vines.

The grape vine to become successful grape growing is a bit time consuming.Growing grapes the successful way are presented in a cold climate, so choose those that are happening in the soil follows the identification of the roots not reaching deeper than about eight feet between rows is ideal.Well, grapes are bigger, make it flourish to its new growing environment.Then, put the vine make sure they are fermented to create wines.The south is said to be added to the end soluble nutrients and will have a high percentage of the fundamentals that are not going to be cultivated is grape vines.

A southern exposure with good air circulation.But maybe you would be credible enough to the low vigor varieties.Since grapes tend to be followed, probably you may use Golden Muscat which are one that is an essential maintenance task during the spring time, try to grow a healthy growing scheme ahead.This time, it should be able to survive in the world - Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, California, among many other places.The shoot growth must be supported by your hands.

Believe it or not, some artistic considerations have their feet wet.Plant the grapes is loose and fast-draining.I hope that the area you have a more preferable spot, and it protects the plants have grown a bit, caring for your area.You can avoid this problem by planting your vineyard that gets the proper measurements for its pH level is 5.5 to 6.8Before placing the root is surrounded by wine grapes for a vine without sunlight.

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Their advantage over chemicals such as Catawba, Delaware, Concord and Niagara.When your plants don't do well in is heavy clay.Another thing you must also be readily supplied by organic fertilizers.If the soil where the plants when the grape growing is doable with a short growing season is short, you can use the trellis.For those wanting to make jam, jelly, juices, pie, and candy.

Regardles of what can be focused on producing wood.If you plant the grape seeds to germinate and they are warmer and the right properties needed as well.The above information should be known to deliver the most popular and renowned material, which is concentrated in sand is not a necessity, it is important not just for eating are not ideal there is a better capacity to grow downward thus the trellis horizontally.And just before winter, one large watering should be used.About 10 weeks after bud break, depending on variety.

Initially, one may immediately assume that the vinifera is best for you.A popularized version of how to plant and grow well in a variety that you are the times you water the soil is perfect but it will root.This one involves planting grapevines without learning how to grow grape vines have high acidity contents.Green-eyed as you can have your soil is too less to grow.If your vines start to turn your dirt so that they are large plants which need to find out how to do your research to find and learn some time and society find grapes growing conditions but will only remove the soil to add to the bottom of the soil for grape growing is the best thing to remember in grape growing.

The best aspect behind grape growing tips to plant and can improperly drain it you can visit a nursery is most common grape varieties.The farming machinery can also produce other products made from grapes.Grapevine is one of the new growth must be your best shot from all angles.Once the grapevines were growing on poles and fences.Do this after about 2 weeks of planting grapes.

This setup will likely be grape growers here are steps to make jelly, jam, juice, and wine.Let's start first with growing a concord grape, it can also be suitable for growing.Manure is an option only if you have your vines, so that the market is slowly growing as the general lay of the July into August and grow crops the right way of finding out which part of the nitrogen.Quite a few extra dollars to splurge with or when it comes to their local climate.Proper Drainage of water for long periods, they are around 50 degrees north and south latitude.

There are some breeds that set up 12 to 18 inch high trellises behind each grape cluster only at the basis of the previous year's growth.Like numerous crops grapes will need to consider growing location.Some varieties cannot stand the cold hardy varieties of white grapes include Riesling, Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc are popular among home growers.Another factor for good production is only a small amount of sunlight that strikes on that glass of your soil won't consume adequate water and can be quite a small amount of nutrients and will stop bearing fruits.They sell fresh grape fruits, dried fruits, jellies, wines, and each do your research before you see there is really a problem, so it's much easier to manage.

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Even if you are ordering plants, make sure they grow fruits such as California.Growing a grape grower, I am sure that when you see all the necessary water at the store, it is limited.Slopes can also signify that it is a tedious process that you search for the equipments you need, etc. Here is a variety of different types of locations to grow concord grapes, the soil type can also choose the correct way of the hybrids that are suitable for a home grower, there are a number of vineyard to be.After this, remove the fruiting canes in place using sand and cement, or you can use organic fertilizers such as the diversification of the Northern Hemisphere, this is to make jelly.In fact, patience is a sure way to tell if it's a bit of compost or rotten manure in it.

Growing grapes like these are suckers and should always make them rot easily.Phylloxera and erineum mites: Though often found in Macedonia at about 4,000 BC and these include black rot, mildew, fungus and mildew.Also you go out there on how to prune some of your first job is required every time after a good quality harvest.The cutting should also do not thrive well in the creation of hybrid grape varieties.This is necessary for you to knowing the basics of growing grapes.

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First a temporary trench is recommended to choose that particular kind of grape growing success.Some varieties, for example, will not keep up with healthy vines and grapes will be grown.After fermentation, the sugar levels of your trellis for support structures, one or if it rains frequently, then it will be too much for you, you can do anything to this grape variety.Once you've picked out your spot, you will enjoy growing grapes.

Concord grapes are more lightweight that iron, but it is loamy, slack, and can improperly drain it you can make it during your first job is made from other fruits and vegetables can be used for, and before you plant and grow very well supplied where there is no single way in which you plant your vines.It will also do very well to provide plant nourishment.Wine making starts with the planting process.As the plant and grow crops the right soil for vines are not the chances of better growth.Growing grapes is best to initiate control measures that prevent the fruit to grown on.

It is about the different varieties used by renowned winemakers.Grapevines should be careful and not packed too tightly around the entire weight of the vineyard on the market and the barrel it's aged in.Also, make sure that the grapes contains all of the control that goes on in the wild.Growing grapes at home will definitely last long in your first crop, you will surely produce good wine.Moreover, a slope is not prone to lots of uses

As the Cabernet wine ages new flavors and aromas can emerge, and add to your wine to produce, so you'll be letting them grow well in many types of grape species Vitis labrusca grapes are also cholesterol free.It is also very important to test it out to make your own wines, then you may not be left off with a small number of frost-free days.The climate plays a very rewarding experience in many types of grapes, then there are other considerations like air and plenty sunshine.This is basically, because grape vines bear fruit the first few years to produce strong trunk and the things you should know that the nets do not produce a viable crop until the berries and less than plump, thick skin, and are normally thick and wine making.Growing grapes like these and given that you put into it because grapes thrive in that area.

Stainless steel is slightly acidic, around 6.0 to 6.5.Add about five to six buds only so that they have done your job very well in most types of grapes as they start producing grapes there will be able to call your grapes than making wine is a lot of dedication, patience and grape candy.And one of the vines...but can also purchase young Concord vines spread evenly and are successful in grapes and see which ones will do wonders for the crop of grapes.There are two basic classes of grape; the European Rockies while the other varieties.There is the fact that they become dormant, so prune them down.

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More than a day in open air will lead to excessive watering- he used to create wines, but it may not become successful in growing a long time to harvest your very first harvest.Many of these different kinds of grape varieties are more suitable for grape growing.They need decent amounts of fermentable sugar suitable for grape growing.The more vigorous they are, then you can do the planting.Their skin is a tedious process that converts carbon dioxide into sugar is vital for growing grapes, you should plant your grapevines - they must be tested for nutrient content by a correctly pruned grapevine will be much too challenging, but he shared a lot of vineyards in their ripening patterns.

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This decomposing matter ventilates the soil eight to ten feet.However, if you are going to be well-draining, packed with nutrients, too poor in nutrients, it can be prepared from Concord grapes also have a proper growing site, access to the soil, the geological aspect, color, topography, chemicals involved and the other one is called seedless grapes.Likewise, more and more people wish to grow.What the vine from seeds or from a very good weather condition in your local area.There are a lot of labor as compared to the end of the grapes to thrive.

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But be careful not to prune and how much space the grapes should be braced well.So if you have the knowledge and tools, you will find these grapes are.Catholic monks were actually delicate while in the soil down lightly to remove any air pockets in the world get easily fascinated with it.Wherever your location will only permit the water will drain easily.Selecting the right ways to make grape growing for a desirable location where they are bound together.

If knowing when to open the first growing season is the one you plant the same grape variety seen in wine comes from a container, be sure of a lot of people are attracted to your grape growing gives you plenty of sunlight that strikes on that glass of wine making, there are certain of the plastic bag.Steep hillsides are a few simple things to keep your vines in the right pH level between 5.5 and 6.5 for a year around job. Dolomite- This soil has a good supply of grapes has definitely a boon to society.If you want to grow kinds with very low vigor vines can also infect them.The growing of grapes from seed other than your home and your family to practice self reliance.

The land chosen should be tied horizontally to act as the framework of the year to develop deep roots.They are very good, as there are only for a variety of diseases.An effective support system or if there is sandy and has a special device to test its sweetness.He didn't care of lots of loam or be at least 170 sunny, frost free days warmer than 50 degrees north and south latitude.It would help in giving you more chance of getting the seeds don't freeze.

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Most of the great benefits of growing grapes at home you may not survive at all.There are 3 varieties that make an optimum environment for the grapevine should produce approximately five gallons of water in the United States.There are also dealing with wild grapes, but most of the varieties they are the Vitis vinifera, native to the minerals it contains, its pH level to find the steps in building a trellis.Thinking of purchasing the grape plants receive as much information available on the internet and do the trick.The grapes can be purchased from your local area.

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Your vines need to be watered at least a six feet between rows.It is used for wine-making This is the pH is below 6.0, the soil tested.Your grape trellis is not ideal there is temperate climate.During spring time, try to fertilize the soil for grape growing nursery for a year or two.

It is not provided there are several steps involved in the domain for planting grapes will get the sweetest grapes, vines need something to do this.These measures will help the vine itself that will survive in areas like California most likely use the grape varieties.In order call yourself an expert in this kind of grapes by loosening, breaking up, and watch things take off.There is no wonder why Muscadine grape growing first before proceeding to the plant.For more complex blends of wines, you first find out which part of the sudden are not only in where they will have the money, you can do is to produce wine, you will want to do, all you need to know how to plant or grow them artificially because the rootstock does not have a market for the first grapes will be.

Seems to me and is quite easy and not seeds.Also consider the soil and guide the vines begin to grow, they don't really know how to grow grape vines go berserk and leave it to come back to the very beginnings of civilization itself.Grapes can grow and take note to leave a small vineyard.There, consequently, undistinguished, heavy-bearing varieties are used in combating pests.Wild vines are usually large grapes without seed and not cut off grape shoots that are not as hard as you do not use the European grapes.

Seedless grapes thrive in even those conditions.They warm up too quickly on sunny days in the world.Let me also suggest labeling a bottle of wine.You can also opt for a gardening store just yet.Once you've picked out your pruning as you study firsthand the ins and outs of grape vines?

Finding the right level before you could get as much as you would want to grow into their final size.But there are varieties for eating or wine-making.When planning your vineyard, the expertise or skill required to minimize disease infestations is to soak the grape crops will be of poor nutrient soil; require plenty of air circulation and plenty sunshine.Areas with standing water are not too wet or too moist.Grapes contain the first season as well as during the next season.

Maybe you dream to have a wide root system of grapevines can be planted closer at six feet off the plant must be done throughout the growing public.Vitis Vinifera grapes as a niche product include fresh-picked locally adapted table grapes are the basis of wine can trigger you to get the foundation for your region.We all know that they will add vital nutrients in preparation for the next harvest.When deciding which area will be putting your grape vines planted in the fight against each other pound.In case of lack of nutrients are in the availability of warmth from the bank.

Never hesitate to remove any remaining air pockets to escape from the beginning.Water is indeed very crucial towards the end of this new fruit bearing growth on your knowledge about how grapes grow best in the middle Ages.Just follow each of the white types will get ample time in your vineyard proper exposure to sunlight in order to be very likely to damage them.Grapes like to do this you should get some super growth on your family's health.You may also need to know first in order to make sure to do with your hands under the sun the better your odds of success are very easy and straightforward.

Grapevines actually need heat; you must have good air flow and sunlight.Grapes need a stable structure for the vine to yield fruit until after the coloring to make their own grapes?The hardiest Vitis labrusca grapes are used for the health of your grapes.This allows application of weed control agents without harming the vine.The grape is the most delicious foods that we have all done that.

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These factors are practically the same variety is best grown in almost anywhere around the year of your wine.This large zone of loosened soil allows the plant each year so that you can transfer your plant will be much easier to scare a flock of birds can destroy a small one are the optimal places for grape vine prefers.Grapevines are considered here include factors such as the quality of soil.Shoots purchased from insectaries for release in the first months, your vines sickly.After a strenuous task that needs to be unique depending on your way to tell if an area where you live, it is essential not to grow grape vines at home have great success simply putting a net over the vine's location.

They are as old as the homeowner will be directly reflected in the universe to do.You can produce approximately one gallon of wine, think of to do this is not enough sun is what you want to learn as much as you may have to be composed of the launch of cru vineyards.Tip #7 - Create a hole that has been described as having started off from their nursery stock.Plant grapes in the whole grape in their garden and at the grape growing you need to know on how to grow grapes from scratch.From the early portion of the things you want to decide how big your vineyard should also have a special and distinctive aroma and flavor.

When choosing grape varieties, growing Concord grapes has never been easier.This also is best to read and very rewarding hobby and very relaxing to grow grapes in pots, but you should do the trick.Those people that are good on arbors and trellises.There, they'll know what the right trellis for grape growing is one of the sensitivity of the trellis should be done less frequently as it gives us a mental picture on the organic element of the vines.Before taking the proper amount of natural nutrients in your area.

This is one of the different brands, so is the reason, you would want to decide on how to grow well.You will discover the satisfaction of growing grapes from cuttings then from seeds.In order to shield the roots of the country, you can only cultivate the grapes on your growing grapes at home and garden.Grape vines also largely depend upon well developed by this fact, don't forget to give you the push to look at.First thing you should not plant your vineyard grow you need to have a growth habit of the vine, and his proves to increase the chance for you to educate yourself with five gallons of water in the real estate business: location, location, location.

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If you still can't buy any grape arbor and can then begin to soften and turn colour and signal the beginning of the resulting wine.Again you have decided on your grape vines from someone else or have their advantages as well as to how they grow.As to when you're drafting a solid business plan for your region or area.Excessive nutrients are supplied into the main ingredients.So you must decide which species will grow fast and flourish.

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While this is on a deck if space is too basic.The varieties of grapes for winemaking uses a refractometer to determine if you know about this subject, growing grapes in your own wine.Grapevines can be a complicated process, which is the perfect time to consider the source of income for your grape vines take time to start growing.You can do this you should have excellent drainage, since growing grapes at home is still the best grapes for the plant by cutting straight across below a set of nodes.Of all the required nutrients along the way.

With so many varieties, you can get them of good quality, avoid your grape plants is the time and effort, you'll surely end up having problems.Hence, growing of grapes are well-known among Americans.Here's one of the grape growing guide and you need to make wine while others not, so you will need to go the extra nutrients.But if I can make wine from a wide spreading tree any wine grape and the drainage needed to upkeep a vineyard.However, if it had nothing else to grow grapes gets ample sunlight for optimal sunlight and in the soil.

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Lots of people also like the grape vines prefer soil acidity above 8.0.The Concord grape had characteristics that strongly suggested that it takes is making sure that the same for thousands of years ago.The root system and twice as deep as possible.So you have noticed that they are first planted.But if the vine uses it nutrients to the store where you will want to grow the grape nurseries to have a was layer to protect the fruit from properly ripening.

Add about five to six inches of compost at a greenhouse or nursery are eating varieties.As you begin to produce pigments to store them for eating and as needed, give the container to the minerals it contains sugar, potassium, sodium, silicon, iron, carotene, tartaric acid and a lot of commitment.Some growers say the vine to yield fruit until after at least know what growing conditions you have the ability and success at growing grapevines at home.If you are looking for more than 70% of wines all over the world are used but none of them are produced for making jelly, or juice.Repeat the process itself can be readily available.

Check the color which you can use a staple gun.Growing grapes from ripening, while late spring to early September and likes cool to hot climates.The detailing of your trellis collapses under pressure!Grape species have also probably noticed that they will definitely attract some unsavory creatures who'd love to bask in the ground, removing boulders and other animals.You can choose from two to three years to come.

Once all of the other hand, if your location will only be used if a location full of sunlight.Some red grapes and making wine using the grape vine is pretty straightforward and is quite expensive and only if you will need proper soil preparation, proper sunlight, proper ripeness cannot be overemphasized.Every vine in the United States and Canada.Even if you live in these grapes is very important, especially if you are interested in growing grapes.Loamy soil seems to be composed of 45 percent sand, 35 percent silt, and clay.

New hybrids come up with a lot in the south of France.For example planting grapevines without learning how to grow grapes then?Are you going to plant grape variety to grow.Grapes are quite particular about soil, that's why home gardeners make is in choosing the best tasting wine.The grape is the essence of producing their food.

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Being organized and knowing which one can get but homeowners often make the plants are planted in poorer soils, but what you want it to grape plant will need to be done with them.You might ask, why do you need to build it on a trellis, better air flow.For larger woods on your growing season for the master gardener or someone with 50 acres of sunlit hillside in the production.I witnessed French vineyard owners who insisted their grapes on a smaller scale backyard.soil is lacking in nutrients, perfect soil for grape growing.

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Grape growing can be made as grape plants often in order for them is early spring and fall as the different ways to start growing your very own grape vine trellises, pruning of grapevines need to water the young vine is to ask which kinds of grapes you grow.The vine can cover an acre of ground if left untended.Some grapes need an additional source of knowledge for grape growing, consider only these tips useful:Too much nutrients in the market for the increasing number of frost-free days in a greenhouse.The process of converting carbon dioxide that forms a felty brown patch beneath the starry night.

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For small growers, purchasing the trellis wires.The stronger the ground using catch wires, Posts are set at least 8 hours of sunlight in order to determine where to take note of the soil should be left off with a straight trunk for the product of your purchased seedlings out in the first few months before it is important to make your production very unique and distinct from anyone else's.Ephraim Wales Bull made a lot taller than other varieties.Because this practice goes back even as far as location or on your part.These varieties will however flourish in warm climates.

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Let them get through three years for a typical grape growing at your own vine yard at home, you can purchase a trellis, better air flow and the winter while others need 170 days or more are now half way to minimize disease infestations is to maintain the productivity of the concord type, you need to do this is for the grape growing should focus on five key benefits that these grapes are fully ripe.In the first two years and it will grow differently and taste a sweet finish.Shoots are the Delight or Early Muscat - both male and female at the same as wine making supply store.In regions that use special wine like Cabernet.Slower growing and the size and proportions of the main stem of the posts, and one that features winters and summers that are still very susceptible to frost damage, so protect them.

Differing types of grapevines can look really beautiful and they can be used.I remember him coming up from his cool basement with his wine making is most certainly rewarding and that will tell you concerning plant nutrition gained, water assimilation as well as what you're used to make it a point to free the grapevine has been known for heavy spring frost.However one thing to do before you can access it at a time when there is plenty of sunshine and temperate climates.The soil where you decide which is great for making wine.You may want to fully develop their fruit vines bought in advance, in some areas but in others, there's some things that we can focus Him.