Happy talk, keep talking happy talk, Talk about things you’d like to do, You gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true?
Do you remember South Pacific? When we were very young my Mum and Dad took us to see the musical. I never forgot it. I was in love… with Bloody Mary. My mother was not entirely approving of my choice. Though I never understood why for quite some time. Still, I have also been known to ‘wash that man right out of my hair!’ A sentiment she did approve of.
Like a real life soundtrack the lyrics have cycled through my head all my life. Except I always remembered the first line of Bloody Mary’s song as Happy, Happy , Happy, Happy talk. So I have rewritten it. Sometimes it is the right time to talk happy, it works you know.
And you’ve got to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how will you know when that dream comes true?
I always dreamt of having a little farm and living all day with the animals in the gardens.
Dreams can be hard work.
But worth the work. We all need a dream. One we can achieve. Developing a sustainable, self sufficient, simple life is one of my dreams.
We grow more than piglets though you know.
We also grow shade!
We have finished cutting a very heavy field of the good hay. It was thick and so tall after all this rain, that the cutting took a long time and is rough in patches. Day One of drying commences today. Hopefully three good hot days will do it. And we will bale it on the fourth or fifth. Fingers crossed the weather holds for us…
John cutting the last strip last night.
Good morning. I hope you are going to have a lovely day. Thank you all for your wonderful support and generous comments, I gain so much information from your writing in the Comments Lounge and do appreciate it. So you may all rest assured that you are also actively involved in my dream. And essential to its success. You are part of The Kitchen’s Garden Farm.
Ok, it is 5.30 am. Dawn is here. Time to get to work.
your friend, celi.
The Kitchen's Garden 
79 responses to “Happy Talk Farmy Days”
PS We had two huge bowls of strawberries from the garden last night.
Have a happy farmy day C.
🙂 Mandy xo
I am singing along with you!
OOOh! My mum was a great South Pacific fan and I watched it with her many times – on stage and on film. The songs are so sing-alongable! The farmy looks so …..fecund at the moment! If John were here, he wouldn’t have needed lights for cutting the hay. Today sunrise was at 4.26 and sunset will be at 22.27, with just a kind of twilight in between. (Big Dog looks very regal in the shade. Are you going to send a picture?)
Christine
Oh yes! maybe that is the one, that would be a lovely painting, what do you think?
I don’t know! Only you knows which photo shows him at his best!
Christine
Looking at those little pink piglets playing made me happy…how adorable! They look like they are biting each other. I’ve never seen piglets rough house like that. My, your garden does grow beautifully. How could one not be happy looking out at all of that bounty and beauty? And the cute piglets, of course…I’m smiling. 🙂
HI Celi! What a happy post! Just loving your garden! Ours is doing well too, thanks to the spring rains and our soil becoming more fertile. When will your friend be castrating the piglets? I’m so curious about that will go. Having an expert do it the first time is smart! xo
And so, Miss c, what is your next dream? Creating dreams is exhausting work, you know.
You are right Misky, dream are fluid! c
Dear Cinders, first of all I want to say how sorry I was to hear about lil number nine but the fact that he died in the comfort of his mother and not pushed off to the side was in itself a comfort. I tried to form the image of it and got a heart swell! Your writing of it was exquisite….
And Cinders, you are living the dream that many, many, many of us have and oh, you do it so well! 🙂
You remind me of a pebble thrown into a pond….those ripples have reached out far and wide to many, many, many of us and we are caught up in your web of dreams! xo
You have a happy day!
Adored that musical – and song….was the world a better/happier place when people had lovely words to sing along for a whole lifetime?
Smiles for your day!
well now that song is stuck in my head !! love the piggies….which has me saying the
piggie toe …this little piggie went to market,this little piggie stayed home,this
little piggie had roast beef, this little piggie had none..and this little piggie cried
wee wee wee, all the way home…Happy tuesday one and all
The Piggies are so damn cute… I’d forgotten how beautiful they are… some times ugly is beautiful and this is one of those cases… I love your farmy… and your posts…
Your veges are just brimming with nutrition and health.
I think my comment got lost. if not, you’ll have two commenting on the radiant health of your vegetables and fruit. How delicious.
It is delicious, from hand to mouth!! c
Hang on to your hats, because very hot weather is heading your way…you should have it NOW. I will pray for dew for you….dew is critical for making good hay. Oh! On grass hay it doesn’t matter, but on alfalfa hay it is critical.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
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LOL I love how you are Celi’s weather person, giving her a heads up to what is coming!! Good Job Linda!
Awww. You have me blushing. Linda in Canada lets me know what is up there so I know what will be with us in a few days. Neighbors helping neighbors so to speak.
Linda
Good neighbours! c
well we have the dew but it was so thick and high that it kept fallling in front of the mower, so it is a bit of a raggedy cut, Piles of hay out there though.. it is going to take some getting in! as long as these thunderstorms miss us, we have the nice drying wind today! c
Sounds like you should be running a B&B . . . those piglets are attracting lots of wannabe visitors. The question becomes:
Whether or not to server bacon for breakfast to your guests.
But it will be such good bacon! c