There are limits to my span of attention. When the tea table conversation turned to trigonometry – my limits were reached (I am sorry but x is actually an x. I have no concept of it meaning anything other than x). I went into a coma, emerged and realised that I did not have time to catch the sun for the dogs walk. Dark was falling. 
So we have been left in the dark this morning. But this is probably my favourite shot so far this week anyway!
Everyone was wondering why I was out so late.
Lucky I took a few reflective shots earlier.
I love Sheila. Honestly, I love that pig. And when I was having my walk in the dark last night, checking the fences, I realised that for at least part of the way she was walking inside the fences with me. Charlotte, as usual, was walking in the opposite direction. They have learned that if you bash at a gate for long enough there are a few with loose latches. When the crops are gone I am going to train her to go on the walk. At least when the beans are out I will be able to see where she gets to.
My wedding hat and constant head covering is collecting more appropriate decoration. 
I decided not to wear suntan lotion this year. My skin was not enjoying the chemicals that are in the modern lotions. And I notice that the rise in skin cancer is matching the rise in suntan lotion use. Hmm. I am just not sure which one came first. So I am using an old fashioned method. I cover the skin! For centuries people have covered their skin. It is a fail safe way to protect it.
The hat is always on my head and the summer skin problems I usually encounter have not appeared this year. So it was a good choice for me. I have a sneaking suspicion that suntan lotion actually weakens the skins defences against the sun, so when you get caught out without it, the damage hits all in one go. Best to wear the hat. Though the sun here is not nearly as fierce as the sun in NZ. I will be needing a very good hat when I go home in December. It is a shame I am not going though Australia because I would really like one of those Aussie outback hats, minus the corks of course!! You know, the one Crocodile Dundee wore.
Good morning. It was a slow day yesterday. One of those days we talked about. Lots to do but most of it done in a dreamy slow day potter.
The layers period has begun, when I go out in the morning wearing warm layers then during the course of the day as it warms up and I work, I start shedding the layers, and in the afternoon as the day drops back into coolness I find my scattered layers and put them all back on again. The trick is to find the fence post I hung the item of clothing on!
Have a lovely day.
celi
On this day a year ago.. that famous pic of the frog and the frog garden. There are piles of frogs in the frog garden again this year. Multiple plops and splashes when I round the corner as they all leap back through the slats in the boardwalk and down into their little covered pond.
The Kitchen's Garden 
97 responses to “There are limits…”
The nice thing about donning layers of scattered clothes as it cools down is that they are still warm from the sun. Have a great day, C.
You know I love Sheila too – the smile on her face as she sticks it through the gate couldn’t be bigger or better !
Interesting thoughts on suncream – and you are so right about covering up instead, the only time I use it is when I’m skiing – the wind and snow can make for some scary tan lines! And I know the hat you mean, I’m still looking fo rmy perfect one too, in the meantime it’s a floppy canvas job that gets scrunched up in my bag or a beanie for winter. The search goes on
soon we will be looking for our beanies!.. c
I agree about the sunscreen. I recently ran across a website where you can type in all of the lotions and cosmetics you use to see how toxic they are. It was certainly an eye opener! Best to just go natural!
I’m loving the change in weather. This morning it was only 43 degrees when I rolled out of bed. Layering is the key!
Hope you have a lovely day! ~ April
They are toxic, and my skin is so much better without them, or rather my skin is so much better now that i wear a hat!! c
Look, you can’t just leave me hanging like that! Exactly WHY was trigonometry a subject for discussion at the tea table?
Beautiful pictures!
Nancy
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John’s minor was Maths and his son is having trouble, The house is covered in papers with weird equations all over them.. c
I agree about the suntan lotion thing. I wondered if applying the stuff makes people overly reliant on the it rather than the common sense measure of covering up like you say. Of course lotions are always going to be widely promoted because it makes a FORTUNE for some pharmaceutical company or other!
Christine
Oh you are right, it is all about the money and the cancer charities are in it up to their eyeballs.. c
Trigonometry was a cinch. It was differential calculus that was my Armageddon. I am so envious of those peacock feathers!
Do I need to crochet a wardrobe-sized baggie?
OK are you taking english? i will have to refer this comment to Our John who majored in Quantum Physics or some such incomprehensible thing.. Now let me think about that wardrobe in a baggie hmm.. c
I’ve taken to covering myself as well. I think there was a company a few years back who made sheer, but sun-proof clothing so you wouldn’t swelter. Sunscreen doesn’t seem to screen anything, I come home as tanned as ever if I rely on it. I love Sheila too.. morning, c!!
Fantastic shot! And I have one of those hats I bought in Oz, it´s good all year round for keeping off the sun, the rain and is brilliant for when I go out walking the dogs!
keeping the rain off is a good thing too.. morning Tanya and welcome back to the Weblog world.. c
math money and mechanics put me in a coma
You remind me of when I was a child and my great-grandma put bonnets on us when at her house. My brother looked cute!!!
I used to spend a fortune on fly spray for the horses, and the flies just got worse and worse. I bought fly masks and those didn’t help, either. Last year I did nothing, never sprayed once. The old horse’s weeping eye stopped weeping. This year I haven’t sprayed either, and both horses are doing very well. I would happily still be buying anti-fly stuff, but it just didn’t work. All it did was make the horses smell nice.
Oh that is funny jan, i have an organic fly repellant that i spray on daisy, it has lemon grass and something else in it, anyway, they all rise up from her like a cloud, turn, race to me and then all land on me, It is dreadful.. they eventually leave and wait for her outside the barn, Flies are such a trial.. c
I enjoyed your thoughts about sunscreen, Celi. I wonder! I’ve been wearing sunscreen and hats for years and years, having actually learned both from my grandmothers and mother the benefit to my skin. Southern California sun is a magnate for major sun damage, and my husband has had a really rough time of it over the years. I’m afraid my grandchildren will have funny stories to tell about their Nan and her ever-present hat hair. And I thought of you this morning on my way into work…four peahens crossed the street–a major thoroughfare–in front of me. They were escapees from a nearby botanical garden.If I’d not been afraid of creating an accident I would have snapped a few pictures. I could have sent a postcard to Kupa! 🙂 Debra
brave pea hens.. I imagine cali must be like NZ then, at home you begin to burn after 15 minutes, it is wicked.. covering up is the only answer.. though that is hard when you are at the beach.. c
Love the hat and the feather in it! So appropo. That first shot is amazing, and I’m with you on sunscreen. I use it if I’m in a bathing suit, and the rest of the time I try and cover for the most part. Feel the same way about bug spray, but Norma at Garden to Wok has an ingenious solution for that in the form of Listerine, which seems to work.
Listerine, i need to find out about that! c
She says you have to use the original gold kind, none of the flavored ones, put in a spray bottle and spray yourself as you would bug spray. It works for her and so far it’s worked for me! :0
Excellent i will try it with daisy, flies follow the cows about! Thank you! c
Sheep in silhouette …love it, and Sheila, well she is just darling, although…behind her; has a look of “Just where do you think you are off too?”
It is a perfectly clear, cool , blue sky day here in NY…wish i could bottle it! Enjoy your day.
* oops, “Ton..has a look
i knew what you meant! c