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.”
I absolutely adore the enthusiasm with which you greet each day. Your love of what you do is not just wholesome and healthy for you and those you love on the farmy, but it spreads to all your readers. I might even make some pesto cubes myself today! You inspire me. 🙂
Glad now that I got busy and only popped in now (6pm my time) or I might just have had sit a bit longer after reading that list! Hope the weekend happens at a slightly less frenetic pace, 🙂 Laura
Wow. Now that does give one a bit of perspective…
I think that you do more in a day than I do in a week
That’s a hell of a list and why I will never manage to become a farmer… Gardener yes, I think with some acclimatization. That list is a great snapshot because to do what you that is what has to be done, dealing with dead chicks and all.
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” Winston Churchill
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Yes indeed yesterday was wild! Loved every minute of it. Hoping to be back to regular programming this week. XO
As you are doing lists I was wondering if you were able to do a list or audit of where you are up to in your aims to become self sufficient. As well as seeing all of what you do as you do it, it would be great to get the bigger picture or overview as it were. For example what is easy to grow in your climate but hard to grow in the kind of numbers you need (I can only imagine how many spuds and onions you need) and the different food groups (fruit, veg, meat, sugar, booze etc) and what are the limitations because of the climate or things you will always have to buy or barter for?. Anyway maybe not today cos today sounded quite busy! but maybe sometime in the future? Cheers Sal
Hello from another inveterate listmaker: how great does it feel to ‘tick’ off the chores 😀 ! Except when I reach about 70% of my list, I often feel I have been ‘good enough’ for the day, and you cannot afford the same . . . Sorry there was some loss amongst the incomers: I guess with that number almost inevitable – hope the rest all survive . . . . And DO hope you thoroughly enjoyed your brief city hours, even if some seem to question your descriptive term ‘wild’ 🙂 ?
Wow, I am tired just reading your list! {tired but still envious 😉 } Have a lovely day!
That is quite the list, Miss C! Can’t wait to see the new arrivals!
I hope the weaning process is an easy one for Charlotte. She’s been such a great mom!
That is one busy list!
Big list!
The usual busy farmy day – lots of variety.