After their walk in the grass yesterday morning Sheila refused to go back into the pen, she passed the pig pen gate, and walked right to the barn then stood there and refused to come back. Apparently she and Charlotte are having a trial separation. Practicing for when the babies come.
After a while I shut the gate on her and left her to lie in the dirty straw in the yards. She and Queenie engineered some kind of break out and later in the day Sheila was seen loafing about in the field with cows.
Charlotte ignored all the fuss and lay in her puddle. She has been quite snappy with Sheila of late so was happy not to have to fight for her water bath. Yesterday evening Sheila waited at her winter gate to be let into the barn for the night so I just let her in there and left her burrowed into the straw, sleeping in solitary splendour. Already there were two cats waiting on the gates for me to leave so they could all cuddle up.
Speaking of misbehavior Little Miss Butter would not Melt in her Mouth, Tilly, has been sighted rampaging through the asparagus. Nibbling on the heads of the stalks. She had taken a Murphy out with her. They go down on their knees and shoot out under the fence.
We shooed her back but she just waited until I was out of sight again before popping back out like a cuckoo for another munch. I wondered why the asparagus was growing without tips. I thought maybe I had mistakenly cut a whole lot too high. She is going to grow up to be a very healthy ewe.
See this opening, this is for the last Red Door. This is from the POV of the kitchen bench. You can see why I wanted big open doors right there. (On the left of that field – to the right of our lane – is the GM free sweetcorn by the way, planted very handily.)
OK now we are crossing the line and standing in the field, in the sweetcorn rows, looking back to the front of the house.
If you look very hard you will see the red doors on the far right. Getting their finishing touches from the Kiwi Builder.
Good morning. Isn’t it great that this tree survived the excavation. The tree is a very important part of this space. Landscaping this area will be interesting, I am thinking of building a HaHa – a kind of raised lawn with a little supporting wall. That could be interesting.
Anyway, I am thinking out loud now, we are still a ways from a new garden. I have enough to do weeding the existing ones. It is 6 am and time for me to get busy.
I hope you all have a lovely day today.
your friend celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
32 responses to “Charlotte and Sheila have some time out”
I think all animals go a little crazy when spring arrives…makes them naughty! Am just loving how the coupe has progressed…such a cool design, celi, you did a great job on that!
Love how you’re so tuned in to all the animals. Learn something every day. HaHa.
Morning honey, bet you are sat under your big tree in the evenings lately! c
The POV from the kitchen bench could be a field of the land where I grew up. So often you make me homesick for the prairie. But in a good way.
Wonderful piece. I have a lot of catching up to do but I am BACk as my reader I have now with Firefox is SPEEDY lol Hope all is well.
Naughty piggies, and lambs, but it’s lovely to see the relationships between the different animals. The coupe is looking well integrated with the house. It’s warmed up a bit here. Have a good day.
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Not too surprising that Sheila is being pig-headed, is it? 🙂
What is this? Girls Gone Wild on the Farmy? How nice these past few days have been! I hope the contractors have all been at work and not on another job. With weather like this, they can get a heck of a lot done. That coupe will be done in no time! 🙂
Have a good evening, Celi. I certainly hope you’ll be ending your day with a glass of wine on the veranda. Evenings like this are far too few this time of year to pass up.
Gotta love the piggies! That view out the door is so lovely – I can see stories growing there. Do you worry about critters/skunks moving in under the porch? Here that would be a real popular place for all sorts of creatures…including dogs staying cool
yes the dogs and cats live under the front one in the summer, the big verandah is completely enclosed so no-one can get under there, but it is a prime piece fo real estate from the midday sun.. c
That’s the way it’s always been. Didn’t think much about it until a mother skunk moved her children in one summer during a drought. Great location: waterfront – if you consider the huge dog tub full of water. (Olde Tiger also considered that her territory – oddly she didn’t object to the skunk babies. We actually saw Olde Tiger swat and growl warnings at a couple of the little ones who disturbed her naps…they seemed to want to snuggle up to her. We found Mr. Skunk, an animal relocator who loved skunks and they seemed to love him..trapped and carted the whole family off to his woods.) Dogs were much happier – probably Olde Tiger, too
It was a lovely day. Those little lambs are funny. Sorry about the asparagus. I guess they know what the best part is. 🙂 What a lovely view from the red doors, and they look fabulous, too.
I love ha-ha’s – we had one in our garden when I was a child, and it was wonderful at keeping animals out – a slope down to the ditch, and then a straight side up to the lawn, and they can’t reach the lawn… with no unsightly fences, hedges or walls to keep them out…
Charlotte wallowing in her puddle, a red door soon to be installed, an asparagus mystery unravelled: another day at the farm is going well.
Charlotte certainly looks comfy in her puddle there!!
Oh my gosh, I had no idea that was called a Ha-Ha, but appropriate! I had taken a group of kids to Mt. Vernon – George Washington’s estate – and they were romping on his lawn. I knew the Ha-Ha was there… but it fooled them. I laughed till my lungs hurt as I watched them all fall over the wall on to the grass below 🙂