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!!”
Welcome back and so nice to see sunshine (there’s none here) 😉
I haven’t been here long, but I must confess, your blog is already a daily habit. I love reading about your life and your adventures on the farmy.
Good morning and Welcome Kerry and thank you for popping by to tell me, I love knowing who is reading life is fun don’t you think!? have a lovely evening.. c
Yayyyyy! Being from Tennessee, I’m partial to possums…even have a children’s story in the hard drive somewhere about possums. So glad you got the situation resolved and didn’t lose anything major. My favorite line: “All my stories are still in my head.” I love that. You’re so lucky to have a head full of stories.
Don’t tell anyone,Ii will be committed! The opossums in NZ have long furry tails like raccoons, very pretty, I used to have one called Mr Joey who liked to ride on my head! c
Right on, Celi. It really is believing…no, knowing…the right thing will happen at the right time. And it usually does! Good work on the attitude re the data. I have an external hard drive that sits here doing something all the time. It collects dust. But boy would it turn to gold if the system crashed!
I keep far less data as time goes on.
Congrats on your coup!
hooray, hurrah, tra la, tra la; love the writing, the photos and the name of your new computer
morning gnat! c
🙂 I’m so happy Toshiba Possum found you. My trusty laptop is a Toshiba, so I hope you have as good a run as I have with mine which despite a few recent episodes still lives… Interesting coincidences, we saw a brush tail possum on Friday night in the tree outside our apartment – we have seen ringtails but it’s the first brushy we’ve seen here, looks to be a youngster. Of course, I had to leave it a biccie. And unusual bird happenings – 2 rosellas flew onto the power line across from us yesterday evening – we’ve never seen Rosies in the streets of Inner Sydney before. I’m hoping Kupa and the ladies were doing their mating dance, it would be lovely to see pea-chicks 🙂
Yahoo! Fate favours the Farmy. We could not operate without a fix from out there on the plains every now and then, through your eyes, Celi. Congratulations on the dusty Toshibas, I love Toshibas myself. Now you are all set to chronicle the Spring and Summer 🙂
The local pigeons do the same sort of dance. The males skulk, heads low like a stalking beast after a taste of meat. Weather: snowed yesterday, snowing now, expecting more during the week. And this is spring?
Apparently Spring can be renamed, though i am not sure many of these names are printable!..Morning Misky.. c
Yay! Welcome Possum, compact machine with a sweet name. Thank goodness we will all be able to catch up with Farmy news as we have become accustomed to doing.
Morning honey, how are things on your side of the world.. warming up?.. c
As someone once told me, what’s for you, won’t go by you! Possum was there waiting for you to collect her.
That is a lovely idea isn’t it. I must remember that. morning maria!
Welcome back. 🙂 So glad the Possum waited for you. 🙂
Good evening Celi; So glad that you got your possum from Toshiba. Just be careful of where you plug it into cause they are known for bad soldering on the motherboard right where they plug into look it up just to give you some care tips i have one and have soldered it several times im afraid to get it too hot when soldering it so take care of it and it will serve you well. They really are good laptops, just not rugged . SAINTS
so i am to be careful as I plug the cord into the computer or the wall? c
Michael says the computer. He says from his research about it that it’s a design flaw.
Well, you are just the luckiest gal, aren’t you? Or the powers above thought to keep online farmy afloat so we readers wouldn’t miss out on the latest happenings over there! Brrr.. it’s cold down here as well, but set to have warmer temperatures tomorrow. Tell that Kupa to stop showing off, girls like modest fellows;) xx
Sheesh – and I thought a possum to be practically native Australian!!! Anyways, hello Possum!! My order for a semi-new one [yep, Windows 7 and a lot of other ‘wealth’] is going in tomorrow! Hmm, about 2-3 weeks to get my goodies! Love the relaxed state of the animals: all’s well up there, methinks!
Glad that you found Possum . . . or, perhaps, that Possum found YOU. 😀