What's Up in DogLandia? 

Dog Tails

Cute and Happy? Sure they're cute and Happy.

Relaxed? And we're Lucky to have such models of Ease and Freedom and Presence.

Here's the Scoop. But there's a steamy underbelly beneath these heartwarming dog tails. With 6-8 free-range dogs (6 permanent residents, 0-2 visiting dognitaries at any one time) roaming the 20-acre Satori campus, Solid Canine Effluvia (SCE) can pile up. 

Heavy Hitter. And some of the dogs -- especially Oldsters like "The Bud Dog" here -- prefer to unwind close to home, on grassy lawn or rocky driveway (instead of, say, strolling out into the 15 acres of rough hewn vineyard where all is soon forgiven and forgotten with nary a sniff).

It's Not All Wine & Roses at Satori. So this sturdy, colorful, 3-foot camping blade is the Tool of Choice (TOC) for the ad hoc Satori SCE Redistribution Team. There are two such weapons on site. One rests here, as if in a sheath, in the sandy beach near the Middle Vineyard ... ready for Dooty.

Bucket Brigade. The other rests here (near an official redistribution container) against the very structure that houses the SCE Manifester Generators. In Winter, when nights can drop below freezing, and SCE coalesces into the consistency of charcoal briquets, with virtually no negative perfume, an early morning romp through crunchy grass with Shovel and Bucket and visible breath can, if you let it, 

feel like a Meditation or a Dance.

These Boots are Made for Scooping. But as Spring temperatures are now approaching the high 70's, such illusions are impossible. Everyone pitches in from time to time (except the perpetrators), but lately Adorah has been the spontaneous leader of Vineyard Redistribution ... often harvesting up to five gallons of SCE in a single sweep. 

It's All Dirt to Me. Fortunately, Nature has devised ingenious ways

to turn lead into gold in very short order.

Parting Shot. And the full cycle of Beauty continues forever ...

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