Yesterday for the third day in a row we had stunning, drenching, rain storms rolling in.
Though yesterday it was in the day time. If a storm comes in with all its flashing lights and its kettle drum set low and I am in bed I snuggle lower and watch the show from bed. The storm at night makes me feel strangely secure and snug. At no point do I feel energised.
But a storm in the daytime hurls me into action. I cook and clean and tidy. I don’t resent being inside because outside it is WET. I am happy to be cooking when the rain is pouring down outside.
Especially yesterday as, in the morning before the storm, I had weeded and mowed and trimmed my way around the gardens. So I had that lovely successful feeling about me as I picked the lavender for this weekends oil.
Over the last two days we have had four and a half inches of rain. My hay field is growing like crazy. It is very humid as well, everything is damp. The clothes hang on the line all day and come off as wet as they went on.
What an extraordinary summer.
My next farm hand has car troubles and may not be here for a week if at all. So this coming week I will begin to clear out the barn myself and get all the old straw out onto the gardens as a winter mulch, as they are closed down before I go away in October.
But today I have friends coming to help me work on the wall in the hen house then we are having a big Sunday lunch with extras. New Zealand steak pie, roast vegetable salad with a lemon grass and mint dressing (experimental), breaded zuchinni chips, home made buns and an enormous bowl of greens from the garden. That should sort them out.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy,
miss c
The Kitchen's Garden 
46 responses to “Sunday Lunch”
I do hope that your helper will eventually arrive as it is disappointing when you are expecting help and it never arrives.
It sounds as though you all intend to have a really good time finished off by a really scrumptious meal. Enjoy!
Haveva great day Celi xxx
I just made your New Zealand Steak Pie last night and it was divine!
oh well done! that is great, this is such a staple at home and guests love it too.. c
I have copied and pasted your recipe and will most certainly put this top of my list for trying! Sound so much like the pies back home – steak and kidney, steak and ale, cornish pasties, oh now my mouth is watering!
hope you have a great day – it has been raining here for almost 2 weeks!!
I love cornish pasties but have never got the pastry right.. c
I too have had laundry hanging forever on the line. This weather is crazy!
Morning darling! hope your wooly friends are well.. i need to get out and drench mine again, this damp weather!.. c
We had much the same weather here and I have much the same approach to rain, be it daytime or morn. Off to to see about that New Zealand Steak Pie. 🙂
Just think how soft your clothes will feel after getting rinsed with rainwater. 🙂
I love to have my sheets out in the rain! If they get good and dry from being soaking wet theya re kind of pre-starched.. Maybe I had bettter get some out today!.. c
I like the sound of the New Zealand Steak Pie, but will need a substitute for the dreaded ‘B’ word. Don’t feel sorry for me, I do it all the time. Enjoy the worker’s lunch today. In some parts of Northern Ireland, the temperature dropped to minus 2°C last night, the lowest August temperature on record for these parts. Too early. Much too early!
A harbinger? Oh dear. Well I am making sure to have a huge supply of firewood this winter. And you need my extra long fingerless gloves Grannymar! You feel the cold.. c
Alas, woolly gloves, no matter how closely knit seem to allow the cold through, thick ones reduce my grip on the steering wheel. I am a real oddity. silk lined leather work for me and are comfortable on the steering wheel. My main problem is my replaced hip. It feels like my right leg has been stored in a deep freeze, but I found an answer: Gel hand warmers (not the microwave kind) I click the disk and put them in my trouser pockets. They last about three hours and can be used again, after careful boiling. Warm hips and hands!
thank goodness, what a sensible idea.. c
We’ve been getting a lot of rain too, but fortunately it’s usually during the week or night time like your storm. It’s also extremely humid and even though it’s not that hot, it feels very warm because of the humidity. The vegetation loves it. I love that lavender photo, it must smell divine!
In bed is probably the best place in a storm, especially in the winter. I hope you have a lovely lunch.
After weeks of heatwave, the weather has been cool with occasional showers here for the last week or so. This weekend is the August Bank Holiday, with Notting Hill Carnival and the Reading Festival, so there’s a good chance of a storm 😉
Is that a swimming pool I see under the rain?? Who goes in there? I love how saturated all the colors are, wet. True colors The way they want to be seen.
What a great day you must be having. I hope the rain keeps off for you for a bit – that pool looks good and full.
Love, ViV x
Crikey, that’s a lot of rain! We had one all-day thunderstorm here a week ago and it really took a toll on the pole beans and sweet corn, and left a very wet world in its wake. Hope your helper makes it – sure makes a difference here when I have even 3 hours of help once a week, to tackle those hulking looming nagging projects that will otherwise continue to hulk and loom and nag.
Have a great day!
I hear you on that one..that is exactly right!.. c
Send some of your rain our way. We can use more…we’re a little lower than average. I know you and the helper are disappointed. We hope it works out. Sounds like a lot of fun: some good friends, a big project and a great meal. Enjoy!
The only good pies these days are the homemade ones! Good to see the old sheeps again:) Enjoy your Sunday. Laura
Such lovely rain photos… I was remembering our wet spring months. Now the 100+ F temperatures have arrived, and the ghastly winds, making this SW part of Oklahoma much like an inferno. Your photos were soothing. The promise of fall rain is not far off for us… I hope!
ow, 100+ and winds is evil, pire evil, hope your rain comes soon!.. c