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Last cut of hay for the season.

And pumpkins for cows. Now that people are throwing out the pumpkins that they have had on their doorsteps for Halloween, Daisy gets to eat them. Queenie too if Daisy does not get there first.

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Now that the alfalfa has stopped growing, and finished storing all the goodies into its roots for the spring growth, we are making the last cut. This one will take a good week to dry, so I have been instructed by the hay man to be patient. That’s fine.

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I am patient. Especially when it comes to making hay or pastrami. Though I do not have a smoker like my sons yet. When the time comes we will use some Kiwi ingenuity and come up with something.

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This piece of brisket is presently sitting in a beautiful brine for a week.

Yesterday Our John had the day off so he planted the fire hydrants,

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While I worked on the fences.

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Closely followed by Sheila. Who closely follows everything, chatting the entire time in her gentle pig voice.

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Today I will be mucking out early as we have visitors coming from the city and the farmy needs to put its best foot forward. Which means I have to clean the verandah  – you can imagine the state of it after a few rainy days with three dogs!

Oh and, thank goodness, my soap did not fail. It cut nicely and is laid out to cure. It is not the prettiest soap I have made but the next batch will be excellent! I have decided that cold process soap though it needs longer to cure, seems to work better for me.

Have a lovely day.

your friend on the farmy

celi

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61 responses to “Last cut of hay for the season.”

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    • Fire hydrants seldom need actual fire to grow, though they are quite partial to the odd Hot Spell with honey. I expect a good crop next year, especially as we have both red and yellow fire hydrants there is a possibility that we can create an orange Hybrid Hydrant, though a few are very old. c

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  2. Oh, company from the city. How exciting. Enjoy your day with your visitors. I remember when, as a child, my aunts would come from Minneapolis to visit us on the farm. We could hardly wait for them to pull into the farmyard, wrapping us in warm hugs and kisses and gifting us with items like old nail polish and jewelry. To this day Aunt Rae and Aunt Dorothy hold special places in my heart.

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  5. I may sort’of live in the country but most stuff still gets bought at the supermarket: can’t imagine having enough pumpkins to give the animals 🙂 ! And love pastrami, but it has been ‘4oo grams finely sliced please’ at the counter!! So glad you are getting some more hay for the winter stores and love the look of your fire hydrants!! [Oh, off subject: first rain since June teeming down and supposed to last till tomorrow – in spite of that, 55 fires still burning, but I did unpack my ‘running away’ case this morning – hope I did not hex the situation 😀 !]

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    • I am so glad you are getting rain, teeming down sounds excellent. though just to be sure maybe you should inch that running away suitcase back in the direction of the door.. c

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  6. Will check with my culinary friends and see who has a super brine for corned beef and pastrami! Maybe they are one and the same! Don’t know…but will find out! 😉

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  12. My Labrador likes pumpkin,flesh but spits out the seeds. She does the same with marrows. And she can tell the difference between marrow and courgette, the latter being one of her rejects. I didn’t know cows ate pumpkin. It’s good to know those halloween “heads” don’t go to waste.

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