With the change in the weather, the hippies have returned. Not two days after the snowmelt, there is a party going on in the empty lot nextdoor. Native American style, with sage and drums around a big bonfire. The bonfire is blazing away right now, sending sparks up, no less than 15 meters from Baasha's stall. Thank goodness Baasha is cool, he's only a little worried, and he should be a whole lot worried. I pondered whether I should lock Baasha in, but he's much happier being able to exit his stall when he's worried, I can see that.
The drums are pounding like orcs in Moria, and my man is in his office (adjacent to the stall), working away on math tests.
I keep going out there to check on Baasha, who nickers to me like "WTH!" and "Where's my carrot for all this?"
We have a stockpile of carrots, thankfully.
If you'd like to hear a recording of what it sounded like from inside the stall, let me know. My Native American readers might be interested in how Germans emulate them.
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12 comments:
Now, be kind to hippies. I'm a vintage model myself :-D
How long will it go on? Changing of the season!
leah, me too, when i was in college: ) i really like the lady, actually, i consider her a good neighbor, but they are definitely the odd ones in this neighborhood.
frau, all summer long, sometimes with less clothing on than you'd expect.
The timing doesn't surprise me...It's the weekend of the equinox, after all...
Groovy!
Yay, we get to hear more hippie stories!
Yup, it's equinox. Where did the totem poles in your photo--they don't appear to be reproductions!
WV: laywou
posture of recovery after a night of drumming and dancing. "I needed to laywou around the house for two days after the equinox party."
You poor things (assuming you moved there for some peace and quiet). It would drive me mad.
evensong, i had forgotten about the equinox!
melissa, the question is, what will i do if they invite me again?!
aarene, the totem poles are from white rock, BC, on the beach, from our trip to canada last year when we visited you.
autumn mist, oh, i should say, it's not that bad. it gives me a thrill that people camp out in what we call "home" - especially since i can't go horse camping anymore. it makes me really appreciate our idyllic home when people sleep outside next door! other types of music would be way worse.
Oh dear. As a daughter of a man that hosts long dances and sweat lodges, I feel for you. Nothing quite like a night and day and night and day of drumming.
A shame they just don't put headphones on.
But, think of it this way, the karma spilling over your home will be all gooood.
:)
Hmmmmm. I would think the drum beat would get annoying after a while, but one good thing is that I don't think that native Americans curse during their ceremonies the way rappers do in their rap music. I had to nip some extremely loud rap music in the bud a few years ago when the nosy neighbors were letting their construction workers crank it up. I'd keep my eye on those bonfires and be ready to call the fire department if they got out of control. You don't want to lose your barn, your horse, and your house. I stopped living in apartments and town homes, because there was always some drunk who fell asleep with a cigarette in his mouth. We got weekly visits from the fire department, because someone's apartment was always on fire.
Well the hippie mating season has started early. OK, maybe not early, we're putting the stallion out with a mare next week.
But it was really funny on a visit to Germany a while back. A chap rode up looking like a wild west character, real authentic, then greets us "gruss gott". An interesting country truly, our fellows Saxons in Germany.
If I lived in your place, I'd be over to see the hippies all the time.
Indeed I wish that I had hippie neighbours (or better still you and Baasha as neighbours) - not a miserable whining pensioner who has long ceased to despise life and humanity.
Wow! That's really close to the stall.
I'm no Native American, but we are saturated in the Native American Culture here in New Mexico with our 19 Pueblos.
I'd love to hear how Germans interpret Native American Drumming and Music.
~Lisa
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