Good morning. I am going to be jogging around the chores this morning now that Kim our Fellowship Friend and trailblazer Farm Stay Participant has climbed reluctantly back onto a plane and flown home. On Saturday The Tall Teenager comes home on leave. I have plans for a Big Clean Up. Maybe I will even get a skip/ dumpster. The basement has been continuously flooding with all this rain for weeks now, so there is some throwing out to do. He might help me.
The new chicks have arrived. They are white ones , though one was DOA, all the rest seem to have settled in under their hot light well. 
Yesterday evening, I was finishing the chores after dinner. (Something I have not had to do for a week). But it is a nice time of day to work. I swapped the cows and Sheila. The cows have left a sloppy mess at my barn door which needs to dry out and under their tree where it is dry and clean there are many mulberries dropping. Sheila loves to hoover them up. I am sure Poppy will oblige too. Kim was picking them as fast as she could from the young mulberry trees in the garden, we added them to our lunchtime smoothies.
And the cows can spend a few days in the back of Sheila’s field eating up all those lambs quarters. Or laying about as the case may be.
Such stern creatures.
Do you see the swallows in the sunset? Cleaning up the mosquitoes.
The sun is up. I am behind already! Have a glorious day. Off to work for me.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
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I love seeing so much green! Alive and well, glorious rich green growth. And I always like being the first to comment since it happens so rarely! Have a blessed day Miss C
Seems ages ago that TTT left! Now that your first week of farm stay is complete I’m interested to know if you have different ideas about whether you would like every week filled throughout the summer or more in spring or autumn according to different work loads, or someone every other week or so? I realise space is a premium, but should a couple with no kids apply would it not be good to have some extra ‘man’ power during the day? Too many questions … I’m leaving 🙂 Laura
Is Kim ready for French farm work 😉
oh my, what an idea! I would have to learn farmy french….what is cluck cluck in french? 🙂 or even more important, does french farmy poo smell like french perfume? ha
Thanks for answering my nosy questions on a previous post Kim. I loved hearing your story and putting your week of Farmy work into context. You will be ready for your own little plot now that you’ve had a taste and some experience.
Le Poussin Piou.
There is a video with farm animal sounds to help you out. 🙂
French farm poo smells very much like American farm poo. Thankfully, we don’t have much poo work. We keep the herd moving along and they leave their bidness behind to fertilize the pasture.
I am glad your first farm stay event went so well!
Nancy
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” eating up all those lambs quarters.” ????? Sounds horrific.
I’m glad the farmstay went so well – and am green with envy.
Welcome to the Farmy, new white chicks. A short life, but a happy one.
Oh ha ha , i should have explained, lambs quarters are a tasty weed high in iron, we eat them in salads too!! ha ha that did sound odd now that you point it out!.. c
Catching up on reading blogs after a week away. So happy to see that all went along so well in my absence! 🙂
Wow. Can’t believe the cat climbed up there oO
She could not believe it either.. morning andre and welcome.. c
“Sheila loves to hoover them up.” What a creative description.
Morning Audrey.. I will pop over today and see what you are up to..c
I LOVE your shot of kitty climbing down the ladder!
🙂 Mandy xo
I love the picture of the cat climbing down the stairs. It looks like a dance.
It sounds like Kim set the bar high for those who follow! I bet she enjoyed every minute of it!
I loved every minute of it. I knew nothing about farm life. With C’s tutelage, anyone can do this. She is very patient and a great teacher. I arrived back in Texas at 2:00am. My flight was delayed by the rain storms that came through Illinois last night. The transition from the farmy to the crowded city was a shock. I miss the the farmy and saying good morning to the all of the animals, feeding them and scratching their backs and ears…Poppy’s muddy face, Aunty Del’s little tongue hanging out, Marmalade wresting with Boo, throwing the stick for Ton, the chicken chores. So many new experiences to think about as I resume my Texas life.
Wow, C…these photos today are so farmy beautiful. I love the one of the swallows in the sunset. I often go out at twilight to watch the bats…”hoovering” up the mosquitoes. It’s such a beautiful time of the evening! Tell us…what do you put in your smoothies? The addition of fresh mulberries sounds so yummy!
And yes, I’m afraid we will all have a hard act to follow, since your first farmy hand was so…well…handy! 🙂
banana, frozen blueberries and strawberries, kale, milk, walnuts, and then whatever else is in season.. the smoothies are divine.. i can live on them
We specially bought a “sterile” mulberry tree to go next to the pool…sterile because we didn’t want the fruit failing in the pool or making deep red stains in the paving stones….for a sterile tree it chucks fruit down and we have found that no bird around us eats mulberries….lizards do, but each mulberry is the size of a lizard’s head so the clean up is slow…we could do with your mulberry hoover over here:)
you need some chooks, they love mulberries however they also poop deep red everywhere, so i guess that would not work for your paving stones!! c
That cat is incredible. Would you have had to call the fire dept. to retrieve her if she couldn’t get down?
she would have got down, these farm cats are used to heights!.. c