The Books are Here! (Well, Half the books are here due to a wee mix up at the printers but I am sure they will do their best to fix up this error today and hopefully send them asap. Melissa my copilot is onto it and will let us know how that is going.)
However I think we can gently proceed with the sales while I have the girls here to help with the packaging.
So all those of you who wished to buy the Book: Letters for my Little Sister – on Amazon. It is all set up and ready to go.
I will put this link in the book orders page for you too.
Paypal, cheques and writers can start tomorrow when the Postmistress has done the weighing, etc. I shall put all that info in the book orders page too and let you know here tomorrow. All of you who have reserved a book: your books will be set aside with a card that has your name written on it. They will wait for you.
PHEW. This is exciting in a traumatic kind of way. But I think we did it. We made a fellowship Book. Now I am dying to get posting.
I am also ordering some fall chickens. I have this theory I want to test out.
I usually start them in the spring and they grow all summer, start to lay in the autumn and then down goes the light, it gets cold and dark and they wind back down ,moult and go into their rest period. Effectively losing a seasons laying while they are young.
So this year, I am going to let them do their growing during the winter and they will start laying in the spring. I have a new young friend who is working with me on this and he has a heated shed and a hankering to put in a couple of acres of vegetables to sell at markets. So we are working together. It is pretty cool to have someone nearby who is as enthusiastic about good food as I am and handy with tools.
We had over four inches of rain yesterday. I don’t think we will be cutting hay, the ground is flooded.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy,
miss c
The Kitchen's Garden 
47 responses to “Books and Chicks”
I look forward to when it’s my turn to order my book.
So glad your hay wasn’t cut yet. I would think 4 inches of rain would be impossible to have dry on cut hay.
I am not sure we can cut it today either, the ground is so wet.. and we will not even discuss my basement!.. c
Gosh Celi, isn’t there anything that can be done about your basement? It seems to be an ongoing, awful sort of situation. And this year it’s almost been constant, hasn’t it? No doubt if there was you and Our John would have done it. Sure wish there was a solution for it! And so exciting about The Book!!! Well Done!!! xo
the solution would be outrageously expensive.. so I just keep everything up and sweep water.. c
i put sump pump in mom’s basement fot about $200.
took a bit of time to break a hole in cement floor. with sledge hammer/chizel.,dig about 2 ft deep hole drop in 5 gallon bucket with holes drilled all over it to allow water to flow in. place pump in bucket
tada.dry basement
yes, we do have a pump, and it is going flat out, i just need to sweep the water OVER the floor to it as there is a lean.. the water seeps in through the walls and well, everywhere… it is ok though,I have a very CLEAN basement!.. c
ok
i was imagineing floating objects, small rowboats,ect
Congrats on the book 🙂 E
Congratulations .. bubbly tonight for sure 🙂 Opening that box must have been like an early much wished for Christmas present 🙂 Laura
Congratulations on you book…the cover is beautiful. We always make sure our young spring chickens have light in their house so they get 14 hours of light. This keeps them laying all thru the winter. They don’t need heat because their body warmth helps to keep the coop above freezing. We raise heavy weights with rose combs for our winter climate.
looks like we have some heavy weights too.. not laying yet though.. c
I arrived home from my travels to this wonderful news of the book. Congratulations to you and all involved!
Fingers crossed for your fall chickens.
Congrats! And I love the cover, so pretty. 🙂
Wonderful! I love the cover, and that [some of] the books are actually on a shelf in your house. Congratulations. It’s also fantastic that you have new plans to be going on with throughout the winter. Last year was an awful winter for you, this one can only be better.
Celi, how exciting. The cover looks amazing! Well done to you and all the girls 🙂
So nice to have a kindred spirit nearby to share farmy things.
How wonderful to see the actual book there! Congratulations. It takes a lot of nerve to take on a project like this, and you have it in bucket-loads.
PS What size is it? I thought Amazon would say, but they don’t. It looks quite big from the photo, but hard to tell.
um, normal size really, not big.. c
I’ll do pay pal when you have the postage. I think I reserved 10, but I’ll double check. They are for Christmas, so no hurry, no rush. I can take mine from the second shipment when it arrives.
Congratulations, Celi! This is quite an accomplishment and you should be very proud, as well as the Women of the Fellowship.
See you soon! 🙂
I like your idea with the chicks. We just filled our incubator with eggs with the same thought. Great minds!
Cheers to you, Celi, on the birth of the book!!! I’ll hop on over to Amazon and get mine paid for right away. Love all that you’re doing, my sweet. As always, you inspire and amaze me. ❤
Kath
That rooster is probably the perfect picture for this announcement. Very cocky and proud. (Lovely rooster!) The winter chick experiment sound logical – I shall worry as it looks like a cold one – but you have another to help with the unexpected…and there’s always something.
Oh the book! Adore the cover choice. Will wait for mailing instructions/costs – exciting that Amazon is showing sold out….someone big needs to take notice of it. (I have to go see the write up about it….dreams do come true, Ci, they do. HArd to have faith in that sometimes. )
Heavy rain here today with “cool-ish” front battling to get to coast. We got back from our Molly walk just before the big downpour…her coat shed water and I had my hat, but we would have had to swim if we’d been 5 min later.) They are trying to stop some serial fool from burning hay bales/rolls in the area…idiot doesn’t realize the effort to get to that point and what those bales represent if the winter is bitter.
But, the book is here. A happy bright spot