We’re Back!!

Well we are back then. All well on the farmy and I am learning to type on a smaller keyboard. Apparently I am all thumbs!

My big old laptop decided it had come to the end of the line. Just at springtime when our cash reserves are low aand with no growth in the fields it looks like we are on the hunt for more hay too. I have only just started selling eggs again and it is not asparagus time yet.However it is hard to describe the importance of you all to the farmy and my well being. You are the fairies in the bottom of my garden, my pot of gold, my room of breathing angels,  I could not begin to contemplate a life without you, so I emptied the piggy bank and  went shopping for a new computer, a downsized version, not so big and ostentatious, in actual fact to keep in touch I don’t need much at all but to lose you would be just awful. Store after store only carried machines with Windows 8.  But I don’t want Windows 8 I told them.And I won’t be bullied into it just because it is the latest thing! It looked like I would have to buy online which could have taken days and days.

Then I found a dusty, abandoned brand new, Toshiba notebook, that runs on Windows 7 – for half price –   a lovely sales fellow unearthed  for me from ‘Out the Back’ !  YAY.  I have always been a lucky person. And I have been very lucky with this. I have called this wee machine  Possum because to save energy it turns the lights out from under the keyboard when you are not typing. And it turned itself off in the back room of the big store, made itself small so everyone forgot it was there and waited for me.

Good little Possum. My  HP is completely dead. My most darling computer man is still working on getting any data from it but he said when he took the back off it was dripping wet and unresponsive.  So it’s demise will remain a mystery. However I do load any good stuff onto my external hard drive, and had not cleared the images from my camera card in weeks, so we are in good shape. And all my favourite pictures are stored right here with you. And all my stories are still in my head.

Anyway, we are back online, life is thundering along. Yesterday we finished sowing the second of the four little fields in a Dairy Mistress mix. Tilled, sown and rolled and ready for spring.

And last night it snowed a little to settle it all in. Perfect timing.

We are not very high tech here in the little fields, so our activities raised very little interest from the animals.  The seed was thrown by hand, and pressed using the mower to pull an ancient roller.

Good morning. I was lucky enough to see some unusual peafowl behaviour yesterday. The pea hens, Tui and Pania, and Kupa were dancing. They were running and hopping and whipping their tails up and down in some kind of complicated  choreography under the grape vines.  Kupa threw off his dignified persona and head down was diving and dashing in between his girls, then he would lift his head and hop along on both feet, then crouch and chase again. It seemed they were racing a series of figure eights through and around each other. A mating dance perhaps? Hmm. The Peacock Plot thickens.

I am so glad to be back. The last few days were strange without you. I wonder what will happen next.

Have a lovely day. Lovely. Lovely.

celi