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
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75 responses to “We’re Back!!”
That was good luck to find that laptop meant just for you. 😉
Hay. We need it too and will need to make a run for it early this week. Spring and short of money been there…er there now. But before we know it, the grass will be green (once the few inches of snow melts away and the sun shines for a bit) and we’ll be digging in the garden again.
We saw a sight I’ve never seen before a few days ago. Two male pheasants ran out of the woods behind our house and into the hay field. They stopped and fought for a few minutes and then one chased the other over the hay field and disappeared. The wild pheasants have lived here for years, but I’ve not once seen this. My daughter and I stood there and watched, amazed at their activities.
It is just that time of year.. great to be able to see the wild birds in action like that! c
Glad to have you back.
Love the daisy on your pages this morning!.. morning alison…c
You did well finding a computer! Windows 8 drives me crazy! Still can’t figure out how to email someone. Love all your animals and your daily happenings. Hopefully spring will find you soon. Brenda
So many people have told me that, about windowss 8, so I was determined not to be bullied into buying one. Lucky for me Possum was playing possum in the back room, wcile all the windows 8 paraded about out the front!.. c
Oh I’ve missed you very much, so I’m really happy to see you back and in such good form. I loved the description of your randy peafowl dance, and hope that an egg-end-product will be forthcoming.
Is it early to be sowing seed where you are? Do you think winter has spent its worst? It’s thrown tons of snow all over Britain in the last few days, paralysing everything as usual.
Love,
ViV
It’s always something! Glad for your good fortune!
I am like you give me windows 7, far better than 8, and who needs a touch screen anyway… glad you’re back and things on the farmy are beginning to take the shape of spring… you go girl, love it..
Spring brings all good things, even new computers. Great for finding a 7; we still are operating on an XP! I suppose that it can’t last much longer…
loveley to see you back. i have been following for some weeks now and abolutely love your little fram and the way you write about it. this is sort of a dream of ours, living on a farm… hopefully with our move from israel to germay next winter we will get a bit closer to that dream.
Oh I do hope you can find one of those little farms close to a wee hamlet, i hear germany is beautiful.. c
So glad Possum waited for you and that, by insisting on what you wanted, you rescued him from the back! It’s all good…
Welcome to the farmy, Possum! Thanks for bringing Miss C back to us!
Morning honey.. Possum is happy to have found his home on my lap!! c
Joy all round! A whizzy new laptop, photos on the card, stories in your head – away we go!
And I know what you mean about missing us/you – it just seems such a part of my daily life now, that I can barely remember what I did before blogging… well actually I do….. but let’s not go there today!
Yay you back! Perhaps you should add Possum on to the Cast list too! Laura
I will work on the cast list today .. thank you for the reminder! Maybe I will do cats! c
I just found an old Windows 98 laptop so if you had said you wanted a windows 98 laptop I would have happily sent it to you! Glad you’re back. And it actually looks like spring on the farmy.
it does with all the ground being turned though with the snow on the ground this morning it is a wee bit wintry, but snow is good.. c
Today the sun is out and I’m secretly hoping the temperatures will be warmer.
Yes…a new computer. Good to read you and see the cast of animals.
So glad you’re back – my lunchtime isn’t the same without a visit to the farmy!
Christine