Even in the depths of winter farmers long for moisture falling on the fields. We received a little shine from the heavens and should be grateful. But I am greedy. My fields and gardens even in their winter slumber are greedy. I wanted RAIN! Lots of rain. 
But we did get a shower or two so I will be grateful for that. Hairy MacLairy has been telling me that this hole in the door had nothing to do with him at all and what am I going on about? We will look at that today Hairy. Our last warm day for a while. 
Yesterday was a great day for washing on the line. I think the washing line needs some repairs too!
My herd.
TonTon doing the round up. Everyone is taking a lot of notice of the herding dog. Not.
Good morning. Queenie was in heat yesterday and has spent the last 24 hours mooing plaintively to the bull across the creek.
Daisy kicked only once during her milking yesterday. The difference in that cow in only three days of treatment is fantastic. Milking later in the day is so much more relaxed. John’s new job is to brush her while I milk. Her tests show improvements in both of the weak quarters. And her behaviour tells me that she is no longer feeling pain. Even though nothing full blown ever really presented itself, I knew there was something not right with this cow. So I can tentatively say that the Mastoblast (the homeopathic remedy) is proving to be an excellent find.
Mama is on a stricter diet for this pregnancy with no sign of the lameness that she is prone to. Soon I will start to add grain to her diet but only exactly what she requires. No spoiling her this time. Mia is also growing quite wide. Let’s hope she has no trouble this time.
So today we will finish up the last of the outside chores then hunker down for another spell of deep winter. But, that’s OK. My long silk underwear has arrived along with the silk thermal inners for my gloves. So I am ready this time. Bring it on, Old Man Winter!
Have a lovely day my darlings.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
65 responses to “Rain.. Yay.. Blink.. Oh.. Was that IT?!!”
Love the herd, and the herding dog… he has his work cut out with that great mob!!!!
a great mob indeed!!! c
I love the washing on the line!
Stay warm, Celi..
One thing I learnt whilst living in the UK.. wear layers! and so I do.. c
I love the clothesline photo. Excellent eye.
Good night, c. Off for dreamland now.
Ni Ni.. sleep tie.. c
Just love the wet clothing dancing on the line: you don’t have ‘civilized’ Hills’ Hoists, do you 😉 ? And love the green grass in the ‘Daily View’ even if tomorrow it’ll be covered by snow again . . . the babytalk was new to me too . . . luvverly . . .
If you mean Long Long Sticks! Why yes I do~!.. c
Nope, that central pole thing so Australian, with four clotheslines on four sides, neatly in a square 🙂 ! You just wheel it around standing in the one spot and have room for about two washer fulls!!
I would love to have one of those out here, we have them in every yard in NZ, here they only sell really tiny tinny things, so i just made my own line. c
Some storm, eh? The way the weather maps looked and the forecasters went on, we should have had plenty of rain with thunder & lightning. All we got was a light sprinkling late at night. Maybe we’ll get some snow?
Glad Daisy is doing so much better. You really did call that one right. I hope you’re right about the ewes, too. 🙂
We’re waiting for the arrival of our cold spell. I must get out and cut more wood so that I don’t have to do it in the freezing weather. I’m all right in the cold,except for the tips of my middle fingers that just go white and lose all feeling, even with thermal gloves. It’s not ideal when you’re using an axe and a chain saw:)
Wish I could ship out some of our prolific Pacific Northwest rain. Today though we are grateful for clear and cold -2C (cold for us). And we have little sunshines in our forecast.
Yay. Have a lovely weekend. …wendy
I love the clothes on the line. When I day dream about a house in the country, it always has a clothes line with the wash on it. 🙂 I can just smell the freshly laundered clothes. Definitely not warm enough for that today.
I have some catching up to do, too. It shall be busy around there in the spring. That’s some wind drying your clothes, you must pin them very well.