Yesterday. Yesterday the shift into a lower cruisier gentler quieter gear finally happened.
It was not warm, but the produce came up in baskets from the gardens. The rhythm of movement without jerks and pulls and pounces. A good calm successful day.
Boo spend the afternoon lying under a hydrangea bush. When I picked him up from the vets he was howling like a wolf at the moon.
But still everything slid like a gently launched dingy onto a still dawn pond. And we settled.
Today the farmy is having visitors from the city. Children. They are going to help me shift the fat baby chicks into their intermediate house. The Stock Trailer is being turned into a temporary shelter until they are big enough for their Ark on the grass. It will be ready in a week or so when they are big enough to go out onto the grass. But until then they can stretch out and grow in the big covered trailer. We will still run a heating lamp until they have acclimated.
Then the children are going to forage in the gardens and find some lunch. I will make pizza bases and we will see what they come up with.
So I had better get a wriggle on and get busy with chores.The dehydrator needs loading and another load of apples into the pot not to mention my animals. It is so cold this morning. I huddled in bed last night refusing to get up for another blanket. I was just to far gone into sleep. Held in place by sleeps gravity. It is Summer! I shoould not need blankets.
OK, hitting the ground running well loping actually. A gentle lope.
Have a lovely day
your friend, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
48 responses to “The Shift into a lower summer gear”
What will you do if one of the children returns from a morning’s foraging with a pig for their pizza?
It’s cold here too! We had about 10 degrees over night the other night. So not fair! Oh well, I shouldn’t complain, we’ve had the best summer this year in like a million years! Good luck with the foraged pizzas; actually, they sound yummy. I’d bring back tomatoes and basil and peppers and maybe some spring onions. 🙂 Now i want pizza for supper.
Boo’s expression says it all–even if he did later cop a corn cob. And why was he howling? Didn’t the vet give him some pain-killer? I’ve had several creatures “fixed” and I don’t recall even one of them crying.
Yes he had painkillers but Boo actually howls when he is frustrated, he wanted to be let OUT of his cage i guess.. If I make him sit and stay for too long he will howl at me, it is terribly funny tho I should not laugh!! c
We’ve been having that cool weather in the Boston area too. Early morning with the dew on the grass and a soft breeze blowing has given my senior Bernese Mountain Dog a burst of puppy energy. Maybe that’s why Boo was howling? Last night though I noticed that it’s getting darker much earlier and reminding me that fall will be upon us soon.
Having the children out from the city sounds like a win/win situation for everyone.
Lope along Celi. Boo has been de-dogged then. Will this mean a personality change?
We all live in hope.. c
Poor Boo, he looks so unhappy in that photo, but I am glad he’s bounding around again now. I can’t imagine having a blanket in summer. We are about to experience a very rare for August cold front here, with highs only in the low 70’s for a day or so. I love it! 🙂
We always love when the kids come to visit. They enjoy all things country. Here in northern CA we have fires to the west. Also fires north of us in Oregon. It is so smokey that we can not see the mountains across the valley. We never want summer to go fast, but this year we know that the fires will be lasting till the snow comes.
Our Aussie Mischief loves corncobs and fresh stringbeans right from the garden. Boo will forgive you and will be feeling better quick.
The grass verges are littered with torn up corn cobs, Big Dog and Boo are out there every morning ripping up their breakfast .. so funny.. c
How I wish Eli only howled when frustrated. Instead he tends to shred things – his bed, rugs, what have you. I too enjoy having kids (especially city kids) to visit. My nephew’s little girl asked for a carrot to give the horses. I gave her a garden carrot and she was shocked, apparently she’d only ever seen the bagged ‘baby’ carrots. Her words were ‘now that’s a carrot!’. I believe I told the last group here that all those spider webs sparkling with dew on the marsh grass were wings the fairies discarded when they got new ones. Lots of big round eyes at that one!
Oh fantastic, the carrot and the fairies wings.. c
Well, as you know I am an ignorant city gal who can but guess about the fourlegged species, but when husband dear number one decided to simplify life and ‘do like Boo’ he was the most miserable guy for at least 2-3 days . . . and normally as tough as . . . like your pizza base recipe: must try – hope the kids just loved it 🙂 !
They loved it !! and you are not ignorant city girl! I know that for sure!! morning eha, ni ni.. c
🙂 !! ni ni . . . .
I doubt there’s a male member of the Fellowship that didn’t sit, knees firmly together, as he read of Boo’s last 2 days. Like Roger said, it’s a guy thing. 🙂
Have a good night & morning, Celi. (Witnessed the Cubs lose another one.)
Boo-hoo 😉 !
These apples look like some from a tree in our yard. I think those might have been the ones they used to make apple butter, but not positive. Hope Boo is feeling better. The children will have lots of fun with the chickens and “finding” lunch. It was cooler here today, too, a pleasant change.
I love the idea of the kids scavenging for pizza toppings!
i want to come for a pizza party at the farmy!
It was so cold this morning in Toronto too; I’m with you, I’m wearing shorts and sandals until the first day of fall. Because DAMN IT, it’s still summer!
How lovely to shift into a lower gear C but not nice about the cooler weather for you – didn’t summer just start – time is clearly running away from em.
Have a super day C and hope you are nicely snuggle bunnies and warm enough in bed tonight.
🙂 Mandy xo