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
The Kitchen's Garden 
35 responses to “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
I had known about lambs quarters, but still smiled whern I read the piece above.
My mulberries never get a chance to drop the birds are so thick in my tree! I love mulberries just to eat right out of my hand…staining juice and all!
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Queenie looks very happy lying in the filed, but doesn’t that mean that it’s going to rain?
Wonderful photos Celi
We need some of those mosquito eating swallows down south, please.
What a fantastic concept, globally networked farm-stays via those wonderful threads that tie we who virtually visit the Farmy together 🙂
Thank-you for that smoothie goodness ingredients. I have never thought of putting walnuts or any kind of nut in a smoothie but sounds delicious. Then do you just throw it all in a blender till…well…smooth? 🙂 I know…dumb question but I have heard of some folks just smashing everything in together with a fork or something! But then I guess it wouldn’t be a smoothie, it would be more like a chunky type thing you would have to eat with a spoon! or fork!
I have a hand blender so no need to smash it, though the smashing might be therapeutic!
Im a little confused, why is cow eating lambs quarters
So much life and growth. Maybe bringing in help is going to become a habit now that it worked so well.
I love those first two pictures. Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful images!