You asked to see Tima’s eye. Well sure, I said. But it was actually quite a difficult assignment. This little kunekune is either very busy elsewhere or fast asleep at my feet. And when I do get a close up it is all eye lashes.
But I did try:
hmm ..
This is what I saw in the end though. Total disinterest! I will try again. 
Speaking of tails. Poppy has been sitting in her wallow. Check out her tail. 
And here is Marcel and his eye. 
Dishes –
The older chooks are free now and wandering in and out of the Bastard Mink house, I am not so worried. The door is permanently open because Sheila and Poppy sleep in there now. I am fairly sure they will not be pleasant if a mink interrupts their sleep!
No storm chasing yesterday. But sadly two of the big pear trees had to come down. The fire blight is decimating my apple and pear trees. So they had to be cut down and removed from the property. I felt sick watching it happen. But there is no choice now. The blight has taken over. And if I don’t get rid of these ones the young trees will be infected and i will lose the whole orchard.
Sad.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
34 responses to “In a Pigs Eye”
Sorry to hear about the blight – I haven’t heard of fire blight before. But as you say, remove from the property an dhopefully the young ones will survive and thrive
Oh I would have been the same watching trees being cut down C, but sometimes we just got to do what we got to do.
have a beautiful day. We are having a hot winters day today. Long may it last.
🙂 Mandy xo
Tima looks like a ferocious wild boar, up close like that.
Perhaps Sheila and Poppy could sleep in the Mink House with their mouths open 😉
Love the Tima and Marcel photos! Animals hardly ever cooperate with the photoshoot… Her eyes are beautiful, especially with the lovely lashes!
Sorry to hear about the trees, but maybe the young ones will have a chance.
Just wondering if you can use your blighted trees as firewood. At least, then it wouldn’t be a total loss.
The larger pieces are being dried under cover for charcoal, but I am not sure whether that in not a risk too, but pear wood makes wonderful charcoal.. c
I’m glad for your discerning eyes and grateful I took a look here, today.
Good morning, c, and happy greetings to the farmy. Pity about the trees but you’d have lost them anyway if left to their own demise. We lost most of our Asier (a type of Danish cucumber for pickling) to slugs while we were climbing all over the island of Bornholm. But in truth, I’d give up all the Asier in Denmark to be back on that island right now.
I grieve for your trees
prize pretty piggy eyes
and am glum at pig’s bum.
Vx
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Oh dear Celi, too bad about the trees. That’s a tough thing to get control over. But you did the only thing you could do. I had to take down a small pear here in Vancouver the first year I bought this house and fight like crazy to save the ancient apple tree. Good luck with the rest of the orchard.
I was so sorry to hear about your trees and the blight. Perhaps you would like a Korean Natural Farming technique from Prokashi.com – my friend Bryan McGrath shows you how to make Lacto-Bacillus as a foliar spray for all kinds of blight and fungal diseases for plants. You make it up yourself from his videos and spray it either very early in the morning before the sun comes up, or just at dusk (sun kills the beneficial bacteria). “Lacto” is a digestor bacteria which knocks out pathogenic fungi. Just follow his videos on his website. I’d make some NOW and spray your other trees. The ones you took down obviously are beyond saving. But to keep the others healthy, this is a good idea. Lacto has many other useful applications as well so it’s worth the time to make it.
Hope this helps. Diann Dirks thegardenladyofga.wordpress.com Certified Permaculture Designer
Thank you Diann, I shall read up on it right now and see what i need. Sadly i think there is one more that is too tall for me to spray and may succomb anyway.. I will look into it for the young ones, thank you!
Marcel is a constant smile. I love it.
It’s hard to cut down a pear tree. They’re so beautiful all year round: blossom like snow in spring, an elegant green cone in the summer, fabulous autumn foliage and an almost Japanese stylishness about the bare branches in winter. From which you’ll gather that I’ve had one… It was huge, and old, and beautiful, but it kept dropping branches in my sheep paddock – luckily missing the sheep, but taking down the fences. I had to do some very swift work with the chainsaw and appease the neighbours with pearwood firewood!
Just love that Marcel.
I’m so sorry about your trees!
Tima’s eyes are lovely, dark and deep. Soulful pigaroo. So sad about your trees. I grieved over my plum, which split in three (overburdened with fruit and hit by a strong wind), so I totally understand. A lost tree is tragic somehow…so much time in the making. Marcel takes it all in stride…I have such a desire to touch his pink lips…they look so soft.
Next time you come home, maybe you could give yourself a treat side trip.. give your jetlag a day off.. something to think aboutc
I, too, know this horrible sadness at the loss of a tree. I am so sorry! But you are doing the right thing, still I know it is hard.
Linda
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