This is how I know it is time to go walkies, the top step by the red door is crowded with dogs.
They try desperately to appear patient but it is a losing game.
The Big Dog elected to stay on the porch though. He was a bit tired yesterday.
We walked South along the track above the creek (that is now a ditch.) Beside the corn.
We looked out to the horizon across the .. corn.
Then across the creek (that is now a ditch) to um.. more corn.
Then after a while we turned and walked back North. Past the .. ah.. corn. 
Well, you get the drift. Then we went past the farmy and around the corner and returned home down the north boundary through the .. well, through the .. corn.
Then we turned South and found our hay field. All green and we all made out respective YAY noises.
And home again, home again, jiggedy jig. No fat pig.
Have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy, celi
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63 responses to “Going Walkies … and then back again.”
Chuckling out loud here…
I can hear you! have a good day, warm here.. everything is growing! c
Oh, I hear you girl. Except in my case it would be CANE, not CORN, as far as the eye could see. A lot is harvested now, but there are still hundreds of hectares covered in waving seas of 3m high cane. And because of no rain since forever, we don’t have any nice green paddocks to turn into, just dusty brown ones. This afternoon’s downpour may take care of that, though.
Is that sugar cane? i have never seen sugar cane. It is raining here too, lightly, lovely, lovely rain.. c
Yup, sugar cane. Tall and green to start with, yellowing a bit as it ages. It has feathery flowers like pampas grass, ranging from palest pink through to lilac. Very pretty. Our rain’s been, well, tropical. But I can’t complain about the volume, we need it so badly.
Sounds truly beautiful! 🙂
Corn gets a little tedious round here, too, but it made a pleasant post of your walk. Vx
It is just so VAST, Viv. So much of it.. c
Olives here…well, here, there and everywhere! And goats 🙂 Aren’t dogs funny when it’s time to go for a walk, or time to eat…they are much more efficient at remembering than electronic organisers!
Aw, this reminds me of our walks when we lived in Mauritius except the corn was sugar cane and we weren’t on a farmy.
Have a beautiful and happy day C.
🙂 Mandy xo
Your farm, when seen in the distance under the blue sky, looks wonderful. There certainly is a lot of corn, but not high enough to use the “elephant’s eye” measure, I notice.
I am the one who is high, right up on the bank of the creek (that was dredged into a ditch by Johns great- grandfather in the 20s.) the corn is very, very high, I will sit a dog in front of it today to show you. I would love to have an elephant so I could show you his eye though. That would be much more fun! c.
Plenty of corn it seems… are you going to cut that field one more time??
My hay man wants to cut it after the first killing frost, it locks some kind of nutrients in or something, the science is beyond me. So the short answer is yes. Yesterday i saw the beginnings of flowers though.. what an amazing year for growth! c
The landscape around your farm reminds me of the land where I grew up in southwestern Minnesota. Thanks for taking me “back home” this a.m.
Never mind the corn – what brilliant CLOUDS!! In the first cloud picture I can see a Scotty dog lying down with something in his mouth. In the second one there is a crocodile with it’s mouth open. In the third there is a hand with a snow ball….. I can go on forever seeing things in clouds!
We need rain here! Pet sitting two jobs at the moment, both along unpaved roads. My truck is a complete mess and can’t see out of the back window!
Whoa! Lots of corn, that’s for sure!!! The Daily View is so lush and gorgeous Celi!!! So different that all of last winter!!! Yikes, did I just write the W word?! I take it back!!! xo
TRUE! I must look back and see what it was like this time of year! c
I love the sound of wind rushing through corn. That sound always reminds me of my grandfather. He and I used to walk cornfields. I have no clue why we were walking through cornfields, but facts being fact that’s what we were doing … walking through cornfields. And talking. But mostly just walking. Good afternoon, c! Good afternoon, farm!
🙂 I love the rustle too! Especially closer to Halloween! 😉 Wonderful memories…
What a gorgeous memory of your grandfather misky, walking and listening.. c
For us it is fields and fields and fields and fields of soybeans! Some are harvested and we are working on the rest. Weather permitting. The wheat is harvested and it looks like a sea of pale gold, but no longer waving. 🙂 I love it when it waves like the ocean rolling to the shore.
I miss the long walks with my Maisy….she loved it too…sometimes we would ride like we were indie car racers in the golf cart. This was one of her favorite sports, the faster the better. LOL Her ears would fly and she would have the biggest grin on her face! She was a happy girl. Fall and winter were her favorite seasons…cool and no flies, mosquitoes or tics!
Many of our neighbors grow corn in other fields surrounding our farm and sunnies!!! 🙂 I love the sunnies! Their little heads bend to the sun in prayer and give you a feeling of peace in their quiet beauty. To the east are the sugar beet fields and further west are the potato farms. And to the northwest are the flax fields…now that is a heavenly view! Breathtakingly beautiful blue like heavenly blue morning glories! North Dakota is lovely! You would love the mustard fields too! Pretty yellow forever!!!!
Your pups look sooooo happy! I wish them a long healthy life. They so deserve it. ((hugs))) for the pups!!!
Have a great day Celi! And everyone here! Have to mow this morning…lots of mowing. LOL Big mower today. Well! I’m off!
wow you have the most amazing variety of crops, why do they only grow two crops here? flax sounds just divine! and the sunflowers, and i WOULD love the mustard.. i would love a field of sunflowers… morning mere.. c
That reminds me of when we brought my new daughter-in-law to Illinois to visit her new grandparents-in-law (just down the road from you). As we drove to the farm after being picked up, my mother kept saying things like, “and over here we have soybeans,” and over there “corn,” and over here “soybeans,” etc. I don’t think my daughter-in-law was fully prepared for just how rural the stay on the farm was really going to be!
I know huh? LOL It is long drive from the airport to step back in time! No street lights! 😉
I can imagine, i thought the same thing when i first came here, in fact i was hit with a bit of culture shock but in a geographical sense, coming from a land of hills.. Morning Pepper.. How are things on your side of the paddock? c
Things are very quiet for me right now. Since I’m a furloughed federal government employee I’m trying to come up with things to do that don’t take much money. Yesterday was spent with the grand baby. Today I’m about to start a sewing project, although I did spend some money on a massage this morning!
Well you probably needed a massage. Hopefully the strike won’t last too long. Sewing is good. I wish i coould sew.. c
The dogs definitely were eager to get a spot on the schedule. Nothing’s better than just walking the land. (#8 picture with the detailed closeup contrasted with the vast big spaces is lovely…those branches seem to be gossiping and pointing)
When I’m in England and go for a walk thru the fields there’s such a huge temptation to go running thru the corn! Do you ever do that? Just run thru the corn? I must admit to being very, very naughty on occasion…lol. 🙂
No! Not me! You can get lost!!!!! Yikes! 🙂
Excellent, naughty is GOOD!! morning veronica!! c