Good. We have just harvested lots of fat and delicious garlic. Maybe I don’t want to share these with the vampires, tell them to grow their own! They get too much publicity lately anyway. Vampires just ain’t what they used to be!
Once clean of all the dirt, these were plainted into ropes and hung in the new storeroom, Le Cave. Is that right ViV? Le Cave or La Cave.
Charlotte and Peghorn are at war.
Peghorn is getting very fat and shiny on baby pig food.
And the Shush sisters have begun to move him along. Frequently, I hear the cackle and flutter of hens accompanied by the breathy chuckle of little pigs. 
The lavender is coming out. This week I shall make lavender jelly. But not too much because this is the second favourite flower of the bees. 
Lucerne or alfalfa is the first! Or maybe borage I shall ask. Though bees are not big talkers. 
Is that rain coming? No. We are still having a lot of warm wind and it is full of dust as it dries out the cracking fields. The sun just keeps baking down from the rainless sky. 
Someone is showing off!
Good Morning. Daisy has begin calling to me the last few mornings. Standing at her milking parlour gate. So i feel a little hurried! Yesterday all together she gave three and a half gallons of milk. This will steadily increase as she gets stronger. In a few days we will strain some and see if it is ready for us to drink. That will be a wonderful moment, as it has taken us almost three years to raise our own house cow. A long time dream this one.
After chores, TonTon and I are off to see the Old Codger this morning and take him his walking stick. I believe he is in the last week of his stay at the retirement home. Training him from the walker to the walking stick will make him a lot safer getting about the house. So cross those fingers again. I will know more this afternoon.
Take care. Have a great day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
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The lavender looks fantastic! As does the garlic.
I love Lavender! I lost most of mine over the winter due to the drought. I have two mature plants left so I re-planted.
Linda
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bloody drought! c
The longer the dream lives in the heart, the greater the reward.
That’s some pretty garlic you’ve got hanging there, Celi. I hope your Friend can easily transition to using a cane. It’s not so easy to do but it will make his life at home so much easier. My walker, by the way, had streamers, a bell, and basket. I think my physical therapy ended more quickly because the therapist was embarrassed walking me around the block. 🙂
Have a great day, Celi!
Love the sound of your walker John – hope Max wasn´t also attached to it though!
Luckily we are well protected from vampires here too at the moment! How exciting about the milk and I am looking forward to the lavender jelly recipe. Am chuckling about John´s comment on his walker….!
I think vampires secretly like garlic, as do mosquitoes. How fantastic to get three and half gallons of milk – you’ll have a cheese and butter factory soon 😉
Please do share a picture of the plaited garlic if you can, miss c – I always think that looks so lovely.
Having your own milk is going to be so wonderful! What breed is Peghorn? He is a beautiful rooster. Lavender and sage are popular with the bees here.
Lovely farmy photos today, Cinderella! 🙂 Yrs. ago we replaced a huge, water guzzling lawn with flowering, creeping thyme, which is blooming right now and covered with hundreds of sweet, little bumblebees. There are so many that the thyme looks to be moving about!! It’s beautiful…I could send you a pic if I had your e-mail address…you could send it to mine, if you’d like! Won’t that sweet, rich, Daisy milk be wonderful??
what a stunning shot, my email is celima.g.7@gmail.com. That sounds like a fantastic photo and an awesome idea, i might look into doing something like that myself.. thank you christina!! cinderella!(laughter!)
The sheep kicking up their heels…how fortunate you were to have your camera ready at the precise moment this happened. Love that shot. Just love it.
Nice shots of Peghorn and Charlotte. How much milk will you need per day to feed everyone on the farm?
well on cheese days the big pigs will have whey. In a day: the calf and Minty need a gallon and a half all together and the baby pigs another gallon. The chickens and all the others get theirs as yoghurt so that will be a couple of gallons a week probably.. i think we will have enough! c
Wonderful pictures. A milk cow = A dream come true. You are very lucky ….. and so are your animals – to have such a caring a considerate “Farmermom”. Have a lovely day and I hope you give the Old Codger our best when you see him!
GMom
Lavender, pigs, roosters, lambs and garlic. Be still my heart. It is my idea of heaven. Virginia
Morning Virginia! c
I always love the pigs, but that Peghorn is truly beautiful! I do hope that the Old Codger is home soon…hoping for good news today, Celi. Lovely lavender…I’ve been attempting baking with mine, and that’s kind of a new endeavor. I don’t think I’ve quite graduated to jelly yet, but maybe soon 🙂 Good morning! Debra
Yum, those garlic look lovely and plump. Never had lavender jelly before. Am looking forward to the recipe!