Morning darlings.
Our walkabout yesterday started on the North side. My favourite view of the barn.
After the milking Daisy and Queenie walk out to their new field. 
I let ut the Shush Sisters (this is Charlotte) and we went and visited Hairy MacLairy on the left and Mama on the right. You can see that Hairy has managed to shuck his harness again. I am thinking of renaming him Houdini. 
Such a sweet sheep. 
Minty on the left and her sisters Mia and Meadow are in the Rathouse paddock far far away from the ram. 
Pania, Tui and The Duke of Kupa are just about to be sprung cleaning up the pig food. 
In the evening we do everything all over again. 
John came home from work while I was milking and took a shot for you.
The day was once again deeply grey except for that tiny window of light in the late afternoon.
We are taking the pigs into their new winter quarters this morning for a try out. So Eldest son can see his work in action. Then it is onto firewood. As you know we heat with wood gathered from fallen trees. We need to get it all split and into the Wendy House all ready for this winter.
I have just slept in. I can’t remember doing that for a long time. So I am wooshing through these words. It is already dawn. So TonTon and I need to get out there and get busy. Daisy will be waiting.
Have a lovely day! Lets hope for some good autumnal light so I can really put the new camera through it paces.
celi
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71 responses to “Walkabout on the Farmy.”
Lovely walk, C. Queenie really is tiny, compared to Daisy, isn’t she? When will you try breeding her again?
Wishing you a wonder-filled day!
Queenie has not been bred yet, I am going to wait until next season as she is only just over a year old now and you are right she is so small.. even for a hereford, but she makes up for it in width!! c
Really enjoyed the walk today Celi. Fabulous photos. Pleased to hear you had a lie in. Have a wonderful day.
Regards Florence x
I slept in quite by mistake, i was awake at 5am then looked at the clock and it was 6! oops.. morning florence.. c
Wandering the farmy with you is always a joy! When there is more light, maybe you can show us the animal homes inside the barn too. Sure wish we had a barn the size of yours! It’s fabulous. Happy Happy Thursday! xo
Happy Thursday Missouri! . What an excellent idea to see inside each pen in the barn before they are filled with animals, i will do some of barn keeping and then do a shoot in there.. c
You deserve that lie in. And your greeting came across as very London! 🙂
Well there sure are some darlings out there!! c.
Celi
You are so fortunate to be able to stay home everyday with the farm and animals. I miss that and hope that in five years I’ll be able to do that too. I haven’t milked since I was a teenager living at home with Mom and Dad but I don’t think it’s something you forget. I also love the barn and we have two large ones on the farm and four small ones. Each one is laid out differently to meet the needs of the animals using it. Barn interiors tell a story all their own. They may not be used for what they were initially used for but are still so interesting and take me back to a time 50 years back.
Thanks for the walk and hope to do it again soon! Have a great week!
Rita
How wonderful that you have so many barns and still in their original condition, ours has been stripped inside but we are slowly reclaiming it. You have a lovely week too Rita! c
Thanks for this photographic perspective of your farm. Always makes me realize how vast the prairie and sky are. Good to hear you slept in for a change. Perhaps up later than usual visiting with the son?
you love the prairies too, actually I looked at the washing steaming on the clothesline this morning and thought of you Audrey! c
Sleeping in is something very rare for us too… but I’m glad you got a chance to do it and enjoy it
wonderful photos, as usual, thanks for the virtual walk!
have a wonderful day!
Morning sally.. lovely to see your smiling face in the Lounge of Comments today ! c
Thank you for the enjoyable walk. I’d forgotten the peahens had names. Pania and Tui are such pretty ones.
They are so naughty for such fat beautiful birds, i almost got brained by one flying out of the barn this morning! c
Good morning, C, good morning, animal boys and girls! Minty looks so sweet, missed seeing her around.
Good morning ksenia!! c
Always enjoy the walkabouts. I hope you get some sunshine today.
As i sat down to write it has come back out .. we had a few quite grey days! c
Our walk abouts are always wonderful! It’s also nice to see you in front of the camera…completes the scene nicely!
Caught with my hair down too!! morning chris.. c
Something about barns isn’t there? (Heehee–I first typed bars…something about them too.) Your patience and gentleness shows in the animals.Thanks for the morning exercise–walkabout.
I sometimes think my typos are funnier! morning alice! c
your farm is beautiful and with the work of your own hands, the land becomes precious
It certainly is precious terry, i hope you have a good day.. c
thank u and the same to you
Such a lovely cow shot in the window…
You know, that is my favourite shot of the day. She does that every day waiting for me to get the milking buckets in order. She just stands there chewing gum and watching.. c
Love these walk-abouts, Celi, and good to see TonTon back to his old tricks, getting some camera time whenever he could. Glad to read you were able to sleep in a bit. Must be something in the air. Max let me sleep in today, too.
Have a great day!
That Max!! yes I had to laugh as he positioned himself inside so many frames. Though lying right in front of mama was taking his star role a little too far!! Morning John.. c