I looked for loveliness yesterday and found it everywhere.
BooBoo doing his best to be lovely!
Big Dog is always lovely.
I find peacock feathers in the strangest places. Only the short ones now, all Kupa’s long feathers are in a vase catching the morning sun through the windows.
Charlotte is trying her best to be lovely. And doing very well in her solitary pen down the back. She just needed some recovery time. I think she is on the right track now. Putting on weight and doing lots of sleeping. Soon I will let Sheila into the field next to her and we will see if they can play nice.
Beautiful apples. All the little apple trees in the new orchard were allowed to keep a few apples each this year and they look too beautiful to eat.
God morning. I collected my thousand pounds of feed yesterday in The Matriarch’s big Jeep without any problems and unloaded it into the garage. My shoulders felt the weight of moving half a ton of feed but it was good work. It is fat free feed so it should store well for a few weeks as they go through it. (Here they add pig fat to the feed as a protein. But I am not comfortable with feeding pigs to pigs so we will be relying on 18 eggs a day and alfalfa and wheatgerm for protein.) They will grow a little slower which is fine. Usually I will breed the pigs to match Daisy’s milking. Daisy is out of sinc with us this year. We are still waiting on the blood tests to see if she and Queenie are pregnant. Fingers still crossed.
Thank you for all your comments yesterday. It was a wake up call losing Number Seven, I shall be even more vigilant now. We have a big cast of characters to care for and summer is in high gear with many balls in the air.
I am well on my way towards my objective of getting enough food stored to feed us for the winter. Though we will not be over-eating! In the next few weeks I will start the maintenance on the barn and building the recycled glasshouse. What I would do for a retired grand-dad close by who visited with his bag of tools once a week.
Ok. Hi Ho, Hi Ho!
Love your friend, celi
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38 responses to “Desperately Seeking Beautiful”
Seeking beauty after loss is such a restorative thing to do. I wish I could send a small team of kiwi wwooffers to help you.
I’m glad you found a way to get the feed home. It’s good to know Charlotte is improving. With all those piglets, she probably didn’t get much sleep, like any new mama. And we know how we get when that happens! Your apples are too pretty to eat.
So sorry about number 7. Finding beauty is a wonderful pursuit. Some days it takes a little extra looking, but it is always there. XX
Priceless photo of Boo and encouraging one of Charlotte . . . not an apple a day girl but yours do look beautiful! Hope it did turn out to be a ‘smiley’ day and that Big John put one of your favourites on the table . . 🙂 !
I really like that, we get so caught up in day to day stuff that we forget to look at all the beautiful things around us. And there is so much that is beautiful on your farm….gorgeous photos!
Boo may be in that chair but he looks like he cannot wait to get out of it. One fo the vendors at the farmers market sells peacock feathers for $2.00 apiece. Kupa may be able to pay for his own keep. I do hope you’re right about Charlotte. That would be such a relief. Have a good morning, Celi, and a great day.
TWO dollars! Wow. I have an expensive vase of feathers!
I could use one of those retired grandads too. My dad would work well, but he’s not quite retired yet. 😉
Well you certainly found plenty of beauty here… love it..
Please don’t tell TonTon, but that picture of the pup on the chair is my favorite of your dog photos.
When we had pigs we used soy protein (I hate to feed pig to pig or chicken to chicken or any of that gross stuff) Soy protein was MUCH cheaper, didn’t spoil and mixed well with the rest of the food.
Just and idea!
Linda
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They have mixed a soy protein into this feed for me so i am glad that is good and they still get about a dozen eggs a day, between six at the moment but in a few weeks there will only be four.
There is endless loveliness wherever my beautiful Celi goes. Thank you for all you do. I’m delighted to be back home and able to pop in for actual comments and visits again–missed you and your farmy crew! Joy abounds.
xo!
Kath
That puppy dog looks so leggy! 🙂