Beginning again

Though that is not exactly what I mean. Not like “oh no here we go again”.  More like Right, lets begin again using all the stuff we learnt last season. Farming, like many lifestyles that are governed by nature, runs in cycles, lifetimes, seasons, weather.  Nature is definitely the Guv’.   Spring has its familiar steps. It is time to begin the gathering of the firewood again. We burn the wood to cook the food and keep us warm all winter and now the farmers are trimming their hedges, before they get out there to plant their fields, so out we go and get more wood to burn again next winter.

Meanwhile  it looks like Tima is training Ton to carry the bowl.  She has learnt another very  important command. If you had said to me a month ago that I could train an 8 week old piggie to pee on command I would have laughed. But in fact I take Tima out onto the verandah where there is a dog crate filled with straw, I direct her into it and say “Have a pee Tima, go on have a pee”, and she does. EVERY time. Even if it is just a tiny one.  I am still shaking my head in disbelief.

Random shot of the cream coming to room temperature before  I churn.

Daisy on her way out to the field for a little walk.

Queenie’s Bobby running rings around his mother. Literally. He is such a sturdy wee chap.  There is no real growth out in the fields yet, but yesterday I let them out for an hour just to have a good walk. But the ground is still quite soft and so it was just for an hour. Waiting for the pasture to grow is one of my least favourite parts of the spring cycle. But if I let them graze too early it will not last.

It rained last night and there is talk of snow then  in the next few days we are getting cold again. But just for two days. Then we will slowly warm up.  Just a little warmth after the rain will help the fields burst into life.

Good morning. Daisy’s milk was clean all yesterday. I shall milk and massage her three times again today then we should be done for this round.

I hope you all have a lovely day.

I am going to light the fire with some of this new wood.  Just for another couple of days!

Your friend on the farmy

celi