And she was kind enough to bring her mother.
Miss A and her brother Mr N are the stars of the family blog ‘Our family Food Adventures’ they eat, love and play, eating and playing through country after country of food. Mr N had a field trip with school so Miss A came on a field trip to the Kitchens Garden Farmy. Her beautiful mother is a marvellous cook and one of the Fellowship (we will be seeing the view from her back door step shortly). Actually they got a little bit lost on the way and ended up in a local town. When Miss A’s mother called on her cell phone I said – no worries, find the post office, go in and introduce yourself and say you are looking for Celi, the Post-Mistress is one of the original members of the Fellowship of the Farmy. So she found her (it really is a very, very small town) and the Post-Mistress drew her a wee map to my house and sent them on their way with smiles and directions. (I think the fellowship needs a secret handshake!!) And we had the most charming day. In fact I will let the pictures speak because it appears that this child is some kind of animal magnet. They loved her. Which gave her mother and I plenty of time to catch up.
And the sheep who would not leave her alone was Minty. Minty was thrilled to meet her.
We had a wonderful time.
Good morning. Wasn’t that a lovely interlude. It was great to have visitors and to sit down under the cherry trees and just relax for a while with some intelligent company.
Now to Daisy and Queenie. It is time for them to be bred. We do this using Artificial Insemination (AI) it is quite simple and painless but first we need to have both cows ready to be bred on the same day. For this they need a series of three hormone injections. Yesterday after the visitors had left I got a call from The Breeder that the injections for both cows had arrived and needed to be given last night. The problem was we were just getting on our pretty clothes to go the the High School graduation of The Tall Teenager.
So off we went to the Graduation, then dinner and present giving. The Tall Teenager was all smiles and relief, full of plans. He is going into the Army in late July.
After the celebrations we came home, changed back into farm clothes then brought the cows in one by one and gave them their shots. All going well The Breeders daughter The Lady Vet will come across on June 2nd and breed them for us. Fingers crossed it works this time. Daisy as usual started kicking and bawling and carrying on at the sight of the needle and Queenie stood like a rock and barely flinched. John said we should be milking Queenie!
I hope you are all having a lovely day. It will be quieter today that’s for sure. But quite chilly again. I hope summer comes back soon.
your friend, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
59 responses to “Miss A came to visit Miss C and the Farmy”
Yes, Miss A. does look angelic with all those beautiful blond curls, swirrling round her face…although that first photo of her..I see a little glint of mischeviousness…well, angels can be spunky and all sorts of other things, right? 🙂 My favorite photo was of Daisy leaning her head down low to see what that little pink thing was!!
Congratulations to T.T. on his graduation…such a proud time for everyone! Can’t wait to see more back porch views!!
Happy chilly Saturday, C.!!
It is wonderful to see Miss A here 🙂 looks like she had a wonderful day on the farm
Congratulations to the tall teenager 🙂
Oh how lovely. Visitors are the best.
From the wonderful pics, I would think it’s going to be a day Miss A will never forget . . . glad all the animals behaved themselves and gave her a great welcome!
Hope the breeding program works for Daisy and Queenie.
Have a fantastic weekend Miss C.
Lovely shots, C! Sounds like everyone enjoyed the day.
Mixing children and animals is like swirling hot dark chocolate sauce in a bowl of vanilla ice cream. Animals get bored with us, too, don’t they, Celi? They dearly love a new smell. What great shots in the hammock!
Thank you again for your hospitality Celi! We had such a wonderful day. Miss A is still going on about it today. She’s telling her brother all about how the animals liked her. And she told her dad she wants to be a farmer again today. 🙂 And I think we ended up getting the best day of the weekend – looks like clouds for the next few days. Thank you again. We really did just have a lovely time and I truly enjoyed getting to visit with you. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and congrats again to Sid. 🙂 I’ll be thinking of him as he sets off for basic.
Aw, Miss A and TonTon look precious!
Miss A is breathtaking. Breathtaking!
Oh, I had met Miss A many a time on her Mommy’s blog, but these photos are just gorgeous and she obviously charmed all the farmy animals as well as us 🙂 ! That resting pic is just beautiful!! And so there will be more pregnancies on the farmy: but what do you do for milk when Charlotte is busy with other matters? [uhuh! another city gal’s Q!] And have to laugh at Daisy realizing what a needle meant: c’mon lady, you are meant to be grown up 😀 !
Of course i clicked on ‘post’ before I had a chance to congratulate the Tall Teenager and wish him well for a ‘peaceful’ career of such vital importance! Uhuh, grew up as a real army brat, born and bred, myself, tho’ darling Dad was an army lawyer [Prosecutor of Estonia’s Miltary Court’] and thus not in front line after Officer School . . .
It looks like Miss A made lots of friends, and had her own stories to tell over dinner last night. Congratulations to the Tall Teen!
Congratulations to The Tall Teenager! What a wonderful day with his graduation and guests.
How wonderful! I love Miss A and her family, so this was a nice surprise to hear that you all connected. I can only imagine how much fun Miss A had with those precious animals! It’s also so nice to hear the tall teenager has graduated and has such worthy plans for his future. Sending some warm thoughts your way…hope that somehow helps bring some summer back! 🙂
How wonderful to see a child so at home with the animals. I had to laugh at your clothes change – there have been others in the past that made me smile too. I had no idea of the intricacies of timing with these conception challenges – but when I stop to think, of course it all has to be synchronised.
Hooray for tall teenager! Something to be proud of.
Minty now will be wanting a punk pink fleece rinse? Miss A is a doll.
(Secret handshake!) Friendly people who know everyone is something you miss after being in a small town