Your comments, poems, captions and words were wonderful yesterday. I loved how you all chatted and commented on each others comments and had some fun with rhymes!! The Fellowship of the Farmy really is the most wondrous group. I feel truly honoured to be a part of our group.
I have no photos of the farmy today as it was rather a wild day yesterday. And today it is looking terribly busy. I thought instead of scratching my list down on a piece of ripped paper or the back of an envelope I would write it here. At the very least it will be legible.
This List is for after the usual chopping and hauling of about 60 corn stalks to the animals. (about twenty each). I make sure the Bobby gets plenty of ears and he is fattening up nicely now. Two buckets of windfall apples to the pigs and Daisy. And then, after everyone has eaten their greens, a bit of grain to the piglets and the chickens. I filled all the water troughs last night.
1. Finish brooder in the cellar (hoping that the chicks do arrive this morning). Usually the Post Mistress comes the P.O. at 7am and will hear them peeping on her counter after having been delivered by the night mail delivery man. Then she calls me, I turn on their heating lamps, fill the feeder and the water containers then drive over to the little country Post Office to collect them. Each chick will have his bill dipped into the water as they are settled in, so he has had a drink. Though time consuming, this is most important.
2. Shift Daisy and Queenie to a new field. They will go into Daisy’s Field today. They are losing interest in the Dairy Mistress Field and Daisy has begun to lean on the fences to get her head over to the other side. Tall cows are naughty.
3. Wean Charlotte from her piglets. She has begun this process by refusing to lie down for them as often and when she sleeps she is right on her belly so they cannot get to her teats. They are excellent eaters of greens now and ready to move up being babies. That is going to be one relieved Mama when she goes back in with Sheila.
4. Pickle two huge bags of cucumbers delivered by my neighbour.
5. Make a double batch of corn relish with some of the cucumbers mixed in.
6. Pick and freeze more corn on the cob for the winter. The corn is completely ripe now and so I need to pick up speed.
7. Pick and cook up and bottle another batch of apple sauce.
8. Make another batch of basil pesto to freeze in little cubes. (I add the cheese when I thaw it in the winter.) The basil is fantastic this year.
Then back up to stack as much hay into the loft as I can, clearing a space for the next lot. And then some gardening.
It might rain too, there is a chance. So I will not have to water. So that would be good. It is still cool too so I can go at quite a reasonable speed today.
Good morning. I need to get busy with feeding out the corn stalks, it is possible that the Post Mistress will call me soon!! And tomorrow I might have photos of the new flock for you.
Love your friend, celi
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34 responses to “The List for Today.”
Good lord, that’s all for today? I need to sit down now. 🙂 All of it sounds wonderful but you must sleep well at night. Looking forward to the cute pics of chicks!
Look forward to see the chicks…
Oh my gosh! You do more in a day than I do in a month. I’m trying to psych myself up for mowing the lawn today and realizing that might not even happen. God bless ya!!
Good luck, I’m exhausted !
Is that it? Really? 😉
Looks like that Cool Weather we were talking about will be here next week…lows in the 50’s are on the way!
Gee whiz—I think you are slacking with that list. Not! There is always something to do, isn’t there? Glad your basil is doing so well –mine is pitiful this year for some reason. Not sure what the deal is but my favorite herb has been less than stellar in performance this year. Have a great day and don’t wear yourself out!
Good morning Celi; oh man! what a day you have planned I hope that it will go perfectly for you. be a blessing mike
ps. missy says that her wordpress wont let her comment so she says hi and sends her blessings as you could use them
Thank you mike and missy. It is just the time of year, once the corn is over things will get a wee bit quieter. Food for the winter and all that!! how many bales do you have now?.. c
Basil pesto. Did you post the recipe and I missed it? My basil is growing like crazy and what to do with it.
Time for a nap. I’m tired just reading your list of chores.
Here is one I just came across on Virginias site. I am making this today. Usually I add nuts but the pine nuts are so expensive, plus I don’t grow them, I think this one will be better. http://mrsbutterfingers.com/wp/?p=2464.. pesto – so so simple and so so good!! c
Whoa, that’s quite a list Celi! You’ll have to let us know if you accomplish it all. xo
Last night I sat and processed windfall apples that I find on the street from our neighbor’s tree across the way. Because we do not have pigs or cows, I cut out all of the bad spots and slice the apples and put them in the dehydrator. Then I have dried apples in the winter after the fresh ones are gone.
I love the idea of dried apples, I need to get a decent dehydrator.. c
“Wild one yesterday”? Really? Well, you’ve certainly got busy one ahead of you today. Max & I are headed to the Italian market for the week’s provisions — and a cannoli. 🙂
Your list would occupy half a dozen workers in any commercial organisation. I wish I could come and help you. I love your way of acclimatising your new chicks. I hope they arrived OK.
I’ve finished organizing the pot garden for now, and taken some pictures, which I will put on my six-word-Saturday tomorrow.
Love,
ViV
Excellent i shall pop in tomorrow Viv.. The chickens have arrived and though three arrived quite dead the rest have all been individually watered and are madly pecking at their feed, i expect them all to collapse in heaps and sleep shortly! c
Oh, the baby peeps are here!…i expect you too will collapse in a heap and sleep VERY well tonight! We’re all tired this morning just reading your list! 🙂
Quite a list. (Might add a dehydrator to mine – that does sound like a great idea)
Glad the chicks have arrived and most in good health. I can just see you giving each a drink and an encouraging word.
Hope that rain appears.
Wow! You certainly have buckets of energy. Sorry you lost three chicks, I hope the others settle in well for you and fulfill their purpose.