Yesterday was just a little day. A nice peaceful Sunday.
Milking the cow while TonTon watched from his usual place. 
Telling Sheila she knows that John does not like her to play in the traffic and get back in the barn right now it is time for your dinner.
Watching the chickens drink the last of the milk. Did you say Thank You to the cats for leaving you some? 
They are stood in front of the thirty bales I bought yesterday to add to the forty we baled ourselves the day before, and the hundred we had loaded into the barn a few weeks ago before the price goes up to 6.5o a bale. My usual price is 3.50 a bale. My straw man is very kind to me. I reorganised one side of the loft to accomodate them. My arms are tired.
Every time I went onto the verandah I tasted the concord grapes..
Just One, to see if they are ready to eat. Almost ready.
But all that busy little day yesterday…
I was longing to get back to here. Longing for the evening. Just this once, I went to bed early. Before the sunset even.
Good morning. It is delightfully cool this morning. Today’s sun is just beginning to colour the sky. Daisy is gently lowing from the rat house paddock. I began to add the newly baled hay to her feed and her milk production has risen again. She will jog to the barn now for her milking because that is where the good hay is. Cupboard love. A wonderful thing. Though frankly a cow laden with milk and jogging across the field is not a pretty sight.
There is a long list of things to do today. No going to bed early tonight!!
Have a lovely day.
celi
On this day a year ago.. basil pesto.
Though over at Tales of Ambrosia – here – there is a far superior recipe and method for pesto.
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56 responses to “Longing for evening”
A lovely sigh of a day. Good for you. I love your little roosting…er, resting place.
Daisy is one smart cow 😉
I’d love to pop up and buy some of that hay Celi. It’s going for almost $9.00 a bale here! Unreal! The good news is the weather report says it will only be in the 90s this week instead of the 100s as it has been the last few weeks, so we can look forward to being a lot cooler! 🙂 xo
Hay here is going for $10 a bale. Horrible prices for the buyer. We sold our rained on hay to two friends of Terry’s that raise a couple of cows to eat each year. Since it was rained on he only charged them $3 a bale…they were grateful and we were delighted they were grateful.
Third cutting of hay should be in about two to three weeks, but one never knows, it just depends on the weather and how things grow.
After third cutting of hay we will start the pinto bean harvest…fall is fast coming. All the farmers in our area are saying we are extremely early this year for everything by about three weeks. Makes me wonder….what is the winter going to bring?
Linda
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Oh no, that would be too awful .. I am rather counting on a long late summer to actually get some food out of the gardens, it has been too hot until now.. plus we all need some grass growth in the fields.. 10 dollars a bale is criminal.. hope you get your third cut.. we are done I think.. we were going to go back and do another cut on the grass but it is not growing.. ah well.. every year is different! c
aren’t those days wonderful when they are calm and nothing major is happening…………
Love this. I took a housework hiatus this weekend because I’m a fool, and now I’m slammed with to-do things in a most unpleasant way. Thanks for this breath of peace, c. It’s always lovely to visit here.
I’d be thinking of crawling into bed early too in that bedroom – looks totally blissful!
Glad to read that you got some much-needed rest, Celi. Despite your warning, I’d enjoy watching Daisy jog to her milking. What a sight! And those grapes look fantastic! Only when you have vines can you see just how much grapes sweeten over time. It’s one thing to read about it but something totally different to actually taste the difference.
I love that shot of TonTon with his ball at the gate! Priceless. 🙂
It is so rare, but on occasion I manage to get into bed very early, with a book, and just luxuriate until I fall asleep! I think you are certainly most deserving of such a time, and I hope it happens often…in between the times it is impossible! 🙂 The grapes are gorgeous! And now I’ll potter over to the basil pesto…my basil is abundant! oxo Debra
hi celi! glad to hear you are a bit cool. we had tons of rain but it is still hot and even more humid! joyce
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What beautiful grapes…and coolness, ah yes, I remember coolness! We don’t have that here for a while yet, but something to look forward to. I laughed out loud at the picture in my mind of Daisy laden with milk and jogging along in the field! Hope your day is a good one, Celi.
What’s the open book on your bed?!
Not to be nosy or anything, but what books are you reading?