See what happens when we take the day off.
And no, I did not get a sleep in, instead there was a murder in the bedroom when Our John forgot that I was having a sleep in and WOKE ME UP!@!! at 5am. I told him that hundreds and hundreds of people in more than fifteen different countries knew I was having a bloody sleep in!! How could he have forgotton? I hid the body, then lay in bed without moving and rested. I had a rest-in until milking time at 6am.
Ah well. There was plenty to do. Fresh Icecream. Apple Butter and Sweet Thai Chilli Sauce. In fact I am making Icecream with Apple Butter today!
The Sweet Chilli Sauce had to be labelled ‘for the very brave’. So I am going to work with it in tiny batches, until I get the recipe just the way I want it, then I shall share. I use the chilli sauce in gravies, stews, as a dipping sauce, it has many uses, it is one of my favourite finishing flavours, so I need to write down what I do. We always have so many peppers.
Some of us are not working as hard as others. 
Summer Sauce and Apple Sauce (for winter apple pies) are almost always on the stove. Or in the crock pot. Or cooling waiting to go in the freezer.
Hairy MacLairy has a message for Laura, who reminded me that we cannot put him in with Mama unless he has a harness on with the pink chalk so we can get some idea of Due Dates! 
Of course I cannot deliver the message. I told Hairy that that kind of language belonged in a paddock. He sighed, looked around at the paddock he was standing in, gazed wistfully at the shut gate, then returned to his corner to practice his sad face. 
Daisy is also having a moan about being left in the concrete yards due to the rain. Lovely lovely rain. No fat cows pogging up my fields Daisy. Just eat your apple peelings and be a good girl. Tomorrow is a new day. Anything can happen tomorrow.
Good morning. We did get a lovely drop of rain. Almost two inches and it is still so wonderfully hot and humid that everything is growing at the rate of knots. It is wonderful for my fields. The tail end of Isaac flicked past and is gone. There may be a few more showers today. More is always welcome but I am happy with my two inches.
I do hope you all find some loveliness today.
celi
On a yesterday and on this day a year ago. Oh you are in for a treat. Perfect Sunday reading. TWO little stories. The day I almost married the Marlboro Man. and My Mother had a Purple Suit. I must have been on a roll that week. Both of these go into the little book of stories from the beach. I hope you enjoy them.
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
61 responses to “Wet Farmy with a Flying Peahen…”
That John. That is all I will say.
we have a saying here, no rest for the wicked!! lol, guess there is no rest for you today!! but you are not wicked, u r very nice!
Good to know everything is fine on the farm. Your demands on weather are so different to mine, in that I don’t grow anything and I just want to sit outside with a glass of wine. That’s about to change so I’ll sit in front of the fire with a glass of wine. I feel sorry for Mr Mclary.
Morning and I am chuckling so long and loud the Good Husband came into the room and said “you must be reading Celi’s post”. There is the routine – morning coffee and writing in my journal, then on to the computer and checking on Celi and life on The Farmy. You are a treasure. You bring much joy and much interest into many lives. Hurrah for Cousin Celi!! V.
Hope you get to rest like the cat one day! And a very fine looking cat it is.
So sad to read of the demise of the lie-in (not to mention Our John!), but it doesn’t seemed to have slowed you down any. I am particularly keen to get that chili sauce recipe once you’ve got it down pat. And as always, I love to think of all those pots of fruit and veg bubbling away in your kitchen.
There are many days I think I would love your life… but I think the wisest course for me would be to hang out with the cats in the sun and watch the interesting stuff in between snoozes 🙂
Daisy will be jealous if Hairy is flirting with the ladies 😉
Seriously good peahen shots today, Celi! Beautiful!
Glad to hear about the rain.
Can’t believe you were woken up on the one day you’d organised your sleep-in. And it wasn’t much of a sleep-in anyway by normal standards. How lovely to have the rain. xx
Sorry you didn’t get your sleep-in. I had to laugh at the “murder in the bedroom” and hiding the body! Rain is good for the fields, but the animals just don’t understand that, do they? Poor Harry. He has a rough life. You do a great job of photographing your wonderful food endeavors. I wish we had a scratch-n-sniff feature.
You should submit that cat pix to a cat magazine – priceless
Apple butter sounds heavenly – my mom used to make it every year and My husband always requested a jar for Christmas.
Busy shelling purple hull peas and freezing them here.
Oh, wondering – did the veggiemite factory get up and running?(Sorry if that isn’t spell right – bit of a hurry – dinner time)
Marmite, and i don’t know if it is going again, i heard talk of it being back in business by October.. i should look that up and see.. c
I am very glad I wasn’t the one who woke you up!
absolutely! c
Oh dear, no sleep in…I have anticipated sympathy, as once my semester starts on Tuesday it will be five a.m. for me every day as well. What I most admire is that you were able to hide the body quickly enough to still get a rest in. How’d you do it? (and I mean all of it!)
I just rolled the body off the bed! Out onto the floor! Then lay back down for a rest!! (laughter)c
Oh my! And I did picture you getting that much coveted sleep! I thought of you the other day regarding rain. I was fishing around our XM channels trying to locate a weather channel update on Isaac, and I came upon one for your general area. I listened for a good ten minutes to traffic patterns–figured that had nothing to do with you, but then we moved to weather and rain and I said a little “hallelujah” for you! 🙂 Debra