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
The Kitchen's Garden 
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Here’s to a wonderful new year!
Happy 2014, Cecilia, to you, yours and the farmy!
Awe Cinders, what a lovely post to start out the new year with…everything looks so peaceful and beautiful on the Farmy this morning…the last photo is something else…it would make a beautiful card…
I’m looking forward to another year in the life of the Farmy and another year of your friendship…you are a gem among us…
Happy New Year!
Today’s photos are particularly beautiful. I love their sparseness. Happy New Year to you! I can’t wait to see what is in store for the Farmy.
Sparse.. yes, that is the winter out here.. have a glorious day, anna.. c
There is something about a “New Year”, be it a Birthday or January 1st that begs me to review and renew. Life seems to be full of starts and stops, beginnings and endings doesn’t it. !? Let’s do it differently, you and me……let us have grace in whatever comes our way. Let’s practice peace and give hope ! The farmy fellowship inspires me ! The farmy has become part of my life..I carve out time to visit everyday ! Celi…..you have gathered us here, thank you.
Happy New Year !
nanster
Happy New Year 😉
I’m very sure that they stopped for the land…that rich soil which covers all of the heartland…loam so deep and brown…the grasses must have been high as they traveled from rolling hills and small mountains….they never lifted their eyes to look clear across the prairie to those Mountains standing tall and forbidding—they looked upon the ground and saw corn and wheat and barley, garden crops that were rich in colors and taste and said: Stop! We are here!
(It was only Terry’s and My forefathers that said…why stay? Why enjoy all this easy to live upon land? If this is rich there must be some that are richer, gather up, we are heading to the high mountain deserts. Then once here they found it was hard to grow something, but they were too poor to leave so they had to stay.”
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
¸.•*¨*•♪♫♫♪HAPPY NEW YEAR ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥
They say that the prairie here was taller than a man, they could see nothing as they walked through, maybe something from the wagon seat. Wish your lot had stopped earlier, or later as the case may be.. we could have been neighbours.. such an odd thought! c
Miss Whiplash’s post reminds me of the song the duck sings to the pig:
I’VE GOT FEATHERS, YOU’VE GOT SKIN–BUT BOTH OUR OUTSIDES KEEP US IN!
Always loved that line.
Let’s hope 2014 is a little less traumatic than 2013…a real bummer. You have lots of little ones to look forward to, Cecilia. Not only Daisy’s calf and Queenie’s, but also a perhaps lamb or two. And then there are your tiny pigs–I can’t remember their breed but when do they arrive? It is snowing here in Chicago, several inches so far.
We do have a lot to look forward to, i have not bred Sheila yet, so we will have to wait on that one but I think that meadow is pregnant, and Queenie and Daisy are rocking along..so much snow up there? we have had no more at all..I hope you are both well and I look forward to getting you down to visit in the spring of 2014, you can stay the night in the Coupe! c
Oh Celi that is so generous of you. You know several years off and on The Tribune Travel Section woukd run articles on farm hands-on vacations. I woud always cut them out, but never took a single one. Maybe 2014 is the year. God knows, im not getting any younger!
Snow! Yes it is now 6:30 p.m. And there has been no let-up whatsoever! Oh-oh! Dear little Meadow! I sure hope they don’t all–matriculate?–foal? –I lamb, calve–don’t know the proper word–at the same time!
I am sure we would shuffle along quiet well, especially in the late spring when the weather is nice! c
I have dates for the cows but who knows what the sheep will do, no sign of anything for a while tho.. c
Happy new year , miss c! I wonder if the animals spoke last night?
The sunrises and sunsets. That’s why John’s ancestors settled here. That would be this prairie natives partial guess. And probably the land. Good farm land, I expect.
January 1 is my favorite day of the year. Lovely winter photos – thank you. Happy new year!
All the best for the new year.
Beautiful photos Celi, and a happy new year to you and all the the souls you share your life with…
You must also ask, or maybe you know , why your forebears came to this lovely place where I fetched up… see you this year, love Valerie
They came from two villages close to Galway in Ireland. Two sisters from one and two friends from another. We have traced them right back to the ship (the manifest) and right past that to their villages. One of the girls was a Milliner. They were just another group of Irish immigrants come out to NZ to be farmers. One of them took her neighbour to court for stealing her ducks.! We have pieced together some very interesting stories about them and their children and their childrens children.. I have it all written down on a huge piece of cardboard, in an old seamans trunk (my grandfathers )stowed in my sons home. i must update it when I get home next too!. There have been additions.. c
Here’s tipping the champagne glass up to a wonderful New You for all in the Fellowship of the Farmy!!! 🙂
OOPS, of course I meant Wonderful Wonderful New Year!!! xoxoxo
Happy New Year from the Steiger family!
And a wonderful New Year in your New Place (still kind of new) .. I have thoroughly enjoyed you and that Mike in the Comments lounge this year.. You are an inspiration to me! love love.. c