The first day of 2014. I have a good feeling. The sun rose white and cold into the blue sky on the last day of 2013. There was even a little snow. I still love snow. 
I hope I don’t jinx it but things have been quietly, quiet and deeply, blissfully uneventful around here for some days now. Quick – Knock on Wood! And watch out for leprechauns, if they hear a knocking they might come a running. Now pull your right ear quickly so only the good spirits hear. But only if you can’t find any salt to throw over your shoulder (watch out for the guy behind you!) Salt is best! But it is quietly wonderful to have life on the farmy ticking along gently. For the time being. The being of time.
But so cold that everyone is keeping to the barn. No photos of any animals and I did not take the camera on Sheila’s walk. I shall seek them all out and do a walkabout shoot tomorrow for you, if the weather co-operates. We need to start the year right. No collection of favourite shots this year. I know that retrospectives are terribly popular but .. well you know.. not for us this year, I am sure you agree, we would all be bawling!
You and I will keep our heads up and watching forward. Yesterday I drove all over everywhere and picked up pig buckets and visited, and bought feed and went to my little Italian supermarket for the first time this month and the last time this year. Then home again to chores in the dusk.
Walks in the sunset.
Yesterday. We had a high of 15F (-9C). I am not even going to discuss the 1/2F (-17) I worked in yesterday morning. This new weather station might be a little bit too accurate. I am sure i feel colder if i know how cold I am. But we do not have the deep deep cold that some people are having. I also wonder why John’s ancestors settled here. How did they even survive. (Does a rhetorical question have a question mark?) Did the wheel fall off their wagon? (rhetorical again).
I hope you all have a wonderful first (or second) day of 2014.
Your friend on the farmy,
celi
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71 responses to “How wonderful ..”
How pretty! I love a wintry blue sky but not the freezing temperatures which accompany it. Here in my little corner of England, the new year dawned grey and mild. No snow for us yet this winter.
May your 2014 be happy and bright. Happy New Year.
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Very beautiful, but I could ‘t take that cold! Come to think of it, your summer heat would do my system a lot of no good too.
Love,
ViV
Maybe somebody just sat down on the ground and said “this far and no further” – probably in spring or summer 🙂 Lovely blue and whites today. Laura
When we are in the midst of a beautiful september day i often think that this spetember must have been the month she hurled herself of the wagon and said Here, Now. No more.. c
I love the photo of the bare field. Such lovely rolling landscape. Happy new year, c, and I send wishes of good health and happiness to you all.
Happy New Year Celi and Long May Yer Lum Reek!! Good old Scottish saying. My father, being dark, always did the traditional first footing at the stroke of midnight. Knocking on neighbors doors with a lump of coal, bread, salt and a glass of whiskey.
Like you I have a good feeling about 2014. New Years day is a clean slate in the year book, with pages all pristine and white waiting for us to record our days. My wish is for every page to have at least one ray of sunshine and special memory recorded.
Great post! I too feel good on this first day of our new year time for me to prepare then rest up it will be below 0F with a foot of fluffy white snow to share 🙂 want some lol they say it helps to insulate how warm is it in NZ? I may have to take an all day flight 🙂
Happy New Year, C…May she be a damn sight better than the last. 🙂
It’s odd how everyone in blogland is reviewing the past year. Thank you for bucking the trend, for sharing your contemplation and for writing beautifully for us all to enjoy. I will hope for slightly warmer days (the Farmy does need some winter…) for you, and for the Wet please, please, please to start here so the terrible fire risk passes. Have a good year, dear Celi.
It always worries me how dry you get out there, .. c
Such lovely pictures, but so cold..its even colder there than it is here..bbrrrrr! HOPE that you have your longjohns on
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU CELI AND TO JOHN and may all the animals, furry, feathered or just plain normal have a great new year down on the farmy….
The drive to work yesterday morning as the sun came up was pretty terrific. We have just enough white on the ground for the sun to create a sparkle. Happy New Year Cecelia….hope you have a great 2014. One of these days I will get that oil loaded up and delivered!
I often wonder why my ancestors, who came from the south of France, chose to settle in Quebec! brrrr. Couldn’t they have chosen the wine country in California instead? “You and I will keep our heads up and watching forward.” I say a big YES to that.
Happy New Year to you Celi, and to Our John and the TT out in the world (thank you for your service TT) and to the Matriarch and the Old Codger and all the creatures of the farmy and all the members of the Fellowship of the Farmy! May we all have a happy, healthy and blessed New Year!
TTT is stationed in Hawaii. I think at this point he is thanking you for paying for his service! c
Happy New Year, I too have a feeling that is going to be one of the best years.
Happy New Year to you too Celi! Your photos are beautiful, as always!