Our John told me that if I showed you these pictures I would be arrested. Only if we are betting I told him.( Just quietly my money is on the biggest ruff.) Elizabeth I would be proud. Ten yards of ruff was sufficient evidently. No-one told the roosters though.
Boys! (snort).
I fell with through a hole in the barn loft floor yesterday. I was encouraging the peahens to go back into their Peahen Palace. One again I was reminded of Hansel and Gretel as I lay a little trail of cat food food for them to follow straight into their big pen. Did that witch have a name? I often feel like her when fattening up my animals.
Anyway I was waving my broom, like witches do, making shoo shoo noises when I stepped backwards and right through the missing boards that allow a hole above the hay manger. It makes life very easy when feeding out in the winter and very easy to fall through in the summer. One leg went straight through the floor, dragging my arse quite literally to the floor, and as I recorrected my weight flew straight out into the void. My bottom is not overly padded, I felt that wack to the bottom. Bounced up, flipped over the rail, caught a post and with the tumbling mometum and flying legs, twirled back to safety, calling a halt to the whole fiasco. Good thing I still do yoga in the morning or the damage may have been worse. I am just sore and strained this morning.
Stupid girl, thinks she can fly, said the two peahens, as they stupidly toddled through the Penthouse door. I raced over and shut the door firmly then harumphed shakily back down the ladder.
The hole is directly below those two roosting chickens in the image above. So you see it wold not have been much of a fall. All’s well that ends well.
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The September Home Grown Challenge resulted in Gnocchi for dinner last night with a lovely fresh garden sauce. Chicago John makes Gnocchi, Greg makes Gnocchi and when Isaw that Sawson makes Gnocchi too (here is her recipe) I knew I was outnumbered and had to give it a go. 
And it really is as easy as she makes it look. I made enough for dinner, John’s lunch today (John always take left overs for lunch – it saves a lot of money and is so much healthier) and a bag full for the freezer.
Good morning. Have a lovely day.
your friend on the farmy, celi
ps Yummy Tummy Farms produced an alarming article about American processed chicken products being made in China and sold in the US without appropriate labelling. This is a USDA recently approved procedure. So if you do eat processed foods (which I do not) be very careful. Very bloody careful. No-one but you should be in control of what you eat. So step up and take control. If you cannot find a farmer, shop the outsides of the supermarket. Only eat what your great-grandmother would recognise as food. It is getting scary out there. Scarier not safer or healthier.
This is making me think seriously about doing more chickens next year in more chicken tractors and maybe those who live close by can grow their own chickens out here. There must be a way to help get good food to more of you.
c
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too bad those chickens didn’t have camera house! that fall would have been something to see. i always laugh at myself when i have those mishaps when i am by myself! glad you didn’t get hurt. i drive where ever i have to to buy fresh eggs. i just refuse to buy them from the big stores.
When my chickens go into their rest period in winter we do without eggs, it can be done but I do egglessness very hard. Maybe this year my leghorns will lay all winter, that would be nice.. c
I’m so glad you are okay! My leg went through a pier one time as a teen, all the way up to my upper thigh. It was not pretty and I was in pain for a while. I’m glad you were able to avoid serious injury. And now, I must make gnocchi!
gnocchi is so good, I think the secret is to make it in a hurry without much time to over work the dough. I did not have a ricer so just mashed the potato up roughly and mixed the whole thing up with my hands. It worked perfectly! c
I know what you mean about it getting harder and harder to find the ‘real’ food! I am stocking my freezer as much as I can but I think it may be a lean winter. Since embarking on ‘No Processed Food’ I have found when I am in a situation (party, bridal shower) where it would be so impolite not to eat something, that the next day I have an upset stomach! Obviously my system telling me that it no longer wants to put up with all that crap! Milk is my main problem as I love it! Trying to find the right kind without buying a cow (or shares in one) is almost impossible.
Luckily I have a very mixed flock of chickens and I get eggs all through the winter, even if only 1 or 2 day. So my stand by meal is Egg and Chips!! With my home made bread so I can make a chip butty!!
When I just cannot bear it I buy local organic whole milk from the supermarket. I absolutely know about that upset stomach, eating out can be such a mine field. I just eat the veges.. but to tell the truth I have never been invited to a bridal shower or party here anyway.. people n the midwest tend to gather in family groups, luckily Johns family is his mother and she cooks real food! c
Goodness me, c, never a dull moment on the farmy. I’m surprised that Ton and Boo didn’t force themselves into the midst of that squabble. They look ready in that photo! Tend those scratches carefully, my friend, as there’s all sort of things in a farmyard that might turn gooey in a cut.
Poor old thing….more like Alice in Wonderland, falling through a hole and tumbling down and down and down.Watch out for White Rabbit.
We can get fresh locally grown veg and we get our eggs from Jorge next door but meat comes from supermarket. Now I am thinking is that ok..hmmmm. .time to think again
Oh dear, that sounds very painful. Do take care – I fell down some steps last year, only a short distance but damaged my coxyx (funny word!) and it took about 6 months before I could sit down properly…eek! Loved the shot of the flour fingerprint glass as you were cooking – the sign of a good chef with a glass in hand I always think! And now I HAVE to make gnocchi, everyone’s at it 🙂
omg c. you could of fallen all the way through…soo glad you didn’t get more of a clunk! and that article…YEEIKES! nuff said on that! i also loved your flour prints on the wine glass…i ALWAYS cook with wine…sometimes i even put it in the food! 🙂
God Morning Cecilia,
We are always watching the labels. Won’t buy anything not produced in America. Saying that, sometimes produced in the USA isn’t any better. We are blessed with growing most of what we eat. Somtime back I saw some dried chicken strips for dog treats. When reading the label it said produced in China. It also said not for human consumption. Wow! Gave me the shudders. Made me wonder just where this chicken had been.
Growing up in an Italian family I have always loved Gnocchi. The first time I made them they fell apart in the water. I did learn. Your Gnocchi look yum! Love the glass of wine.
Your pics are always beautiful. Glad your fall wasn’t any worse than it was. Our dignity always suffers from such episodes.
We have clouds today. Praying for rain!
Celi, even a little fall can be bad if you land wrong. So glad you didn’t land wrong! Thank you for the recipe. I haven’t had this since I was a teenager, which I will only say was too long since. I will be trying to devise a GF version of it this week. Wish me luck!
Sadly, there is nothing in the world that can stop a pair of roosters from fighting once they get a mind for it… Well, actually, Coq au vin will work every time! 😉
Your poor bum! Hope you are feeling better. Once again you have me thinking about chickens again, but after the Gs saw a few of our neighbor’s chickens wandering around on the street during our evening walk, I don’t think it’s a great idea at the moment. Thank you once again for the reminder though. I’m just anxiously awaiting for more sprouting to happen! Fall/winter garden is already underway.
You know how there are sentences that are short but they say a lot? That’s how I feel about that wine glass shot.
Hope you’re feeling better – body and ego both!
I have noticed an alarming increase in falls, trips, slips, and tumbles among the bloggers I follow ~ Grannymar, Debra (at Breathelighter), Carina (at Anyone 4 Curry), and now you!
What’s UP with that? Or, should I ask, what’s going DOWN? 😉
Glad you’re OK.
Oh dear, ‘She flies through the air with the greatest of ease – the women in the flying trapeze.”
glad you are not hurt.
Ouch, I hope you heal quickly. I did something similar once and had the largest egg on my behind. Jeans didn’t cover it up! I think it is outrageous that the USDA allowed China to be involved with our food chain given how many dogs got sick or died from dog food from China. Local is best. Hands down.
alarming, and as it does not need to be labelled as having been to china and back, we will never know.. c
It’s just nuts and so backward with their thinking.
Yoga? Wow…I’m going to come out and spend a while, so you can help me hone my organization skills…Glad you’re not badly hurt!
I just lurch from one thing to the next and try not to leave too much of a mess.. c