Boo the Savage is the great returner of found objects. The Verandah is a litter of interesting finds, like a little boys pockets but with a canine influence.
I forgot to tell you yesterday that Queenie (who would not look at you for a photograph) was bred by The Lady Vet on Sunday. Easily too so that was a relief. Now we wait and see if it takes. We will see if True Grit lives up to his name. Let’s hope we have two gestating bovines.
Good morning. Yesterday a lovely lady and her daughter came to visit. She is going to help John mind the animals while I am away in Canada. Yesterday she helped me pick cherries. In my absence she would have milked Daisy (who will not dry up) too but I have re-organised Daisy’s schedule into one late in the evening milking so that John can do it after work, which will be easier on the nerves of the cow. Let’s hope she does not Kick Up a Fuss. But at 25 pounds of milk (2 1/2 gallons – about 10 litres) she is still giving way too much to be safely stopped.
You and I are off to the Rocky mountains in Eight days!
We did get rain early yesterday, so if it stays clear and dry today (so far so good) I shall turn the last little bit of hay over again this afternoon.
Our non GM corn that survived the flooding is doing very well. My animals will eat every single piece of these plants this summer. They love sweet-corn stalks.
This morning the Old Codger and I are going grocery shopping.
Have a lovely day.
your friend, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
45 responses to “Is this your hat?”
Love the hollyhocks. Save travels!
The farmy is looking good and Boo must have some retriever in him! So glad you were able to get some hay baled yesterday and that Queenie is bred. Very productive days. 🙂
Your pup is really growing up! He seems like just the perfect dog for you…always there, interested in things you do and adores farm life. Eight days is not long now…then you will get a break and a whole new place to visit! I am so sorry about all that rain in Canada…they were were hit hard.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Your blog makes me smile everyday. You find the little joys in everything. Your photos are like a little present every morning. Thank you.
Mabbie that is such a lovely thing to say, have a glorious evening.. c
I am in need of a Rocky Mountain vacation. I am counting down the days!
Boo is cute – but that second picture is a show stopper: calendar/poster quality.
The cat is just such a perfect summer picture.
Our hay rake for the tractor was a lot more primitive looking than that ( and more lethal looking, too…probably not pass safety standards now)
8 days! Can’t wait. Worried a bit about Calgary. Haven’t been there for a few years, but always have a fondness for it. Will pay close attention to your comments of the area – maybe next spring/summer….planning a mountain fix this fall in the lower Rockies…just got to get through this baking summer.
Hope the next 8 days are perfect and as free as possible of chaos.
It all needs to become calm before I leave.. so lets hope!! c
At least Boo brings them to the porch…the Late, Lamented Chloe would steal things and hide them. If she didn’t eat them…
Marvelous photos today. Fingers still crossed on that hay!
The corn looks good. Nice catch of a sleepy kitty. Glad to hear the hay is staying dry. Loved the simile about the little boys pockets. 🙂
I am always in the Rocky Mountains (Colorado) as I live there but I am looking forward to “our” adventure.
Those Rockys stretch for a long way!! c
Aaaahhh, so nice to roam through your photos and soak up the essence of summer via my laptop screen, and for a few minutes be oblivious to the cool damp weather I know will greet me outside. Hope the weather settles down for you at home, and in Canada for your trip. Oh, that Boo, the hat suits him 🙂
I could use Boo right now to find a few of my things…
Fascinating as always. Goodness, that bone is an ambitious project!
So ‘Little Boy Blue’ is now ‘Boo the Savage’: hmm, quite a turn around! And who on earth around the Farmy possesses such a ‘posh’ hat? Wonderfully mixed bag of happy pictures and more knowledge for us and going to the Rockies sounds just what I need.
Have rescrolled the pics of your wonderfully happy piggies at play having a normal life as long as it can last. Am horrified at the moment: my ‘Australian Women’s Weekly’ arrived yesterday. In it is a long pictorial article about pig farming in Australia. Our two major supermarket chains have been bragging for months that all the pork for sale in the markets now comes from ‘stall-free pigs’! Hogwash!!!!! As pictures show and story tells they are still raised totally indoors, standing all their life on planks, each having supposedly 1.9 metres square space [ie barely enough to turn around!] and looking at the crowded pens it looks way less than that. And the conditions in which sows give birth, unable to even turn around, just stand on the other side of the barrier from their litter or lie down to feed the piglets – pregnant all the time they are not feeding . . . . I love pork . . . but . . . . bless you and Charlotte and the babes . . .
We are lucky here that we can give them lots of space, and i truly believe everyone needs sun, lots of light.. just the lack of natural light must be dreadful for any animal c
I can hear things ticking over again. And so glad that natural, organic corn has survived better than the GM stuff! (Note my language; I don’t like defining thing by what they are not)
Poor Boo! Your animals are too well-trained, leaving him nothing to herd but hats. Just be thankful he hasn’t tired to herd a family of skunks. That bone should keep him busy for a while. In about a week, Zia will start commenting about the corn on the neighboring farms and how much it’s grown. “Knee-high by the 4th of July,” is her favorite saying. 🙂