Farmers hands do so much work.
All the pigs got the DE treatment. Dust was everywhere.
And because Tima’s hair is still growing back she looks like some kind of beacon out at sea.
The Big Hereford Pigs are now pie bald.
And my farmers hands are dried up and weird looking from the DE. Though there is no bug left alive on any of our skins.
Boo shared his stick with Tane, then took it back in disgust when Tane did not throw it for him.
The Cadet took all the chicks out of their box and replaced their bedding while the chicks sat in the laundry basket and waited. I hope they were not having a laundry basket moment. (This is one of my favourite stories. If you are new to The Fellowship pop over and read it when you have a moment. Last night I read it again and have not changed a thing. It sounds like me. And Julie the dedication is still for you).
Good morning. Yesterday Sheila and I started her summer wallow. Making the wallow is a very serious business and takes Some Time. Weeks really.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farm,
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
44 responses to “Farmers Hands”
Good morning! Loved the piggies! Boo you are such a great pal….maybe one day you’ll get those piggies to take the stick! 🙂 I use Profoot’s Heel Rescue superior moisturizing foot cream! Fragrance free and non-greasy! I order if from CVS!!! Great stuff!!! My heels look and feel great! Winters here dry you out all over and then you itch! I use it on my legs and hands too! Only $6.50 for 16 oz.. My brother in New England who is an outdoorsman recommended it. Wonderful stuff!!! CVS Drugstore and online too! Love the laundry basket of chicks! LOL I hated Bag Balm….greasy and sticky…eeewwww…Have a great day!
Hope your hands heal soon. They do work so very hard. I don’t like commercial stuff either for hand lotion, I just add a little olive or coconut oil when I’m cooking. No hard work here anymore. I like how the dog wants to play with the pig and it won’t be bothered. Don’t we all want to wallow once in awhile? Have a good rest of the day.
Oh C. your poor hands! I’ll have to try that hemp lotion, it sounds great! I’m on a coconut oil kick right now but any food oil I like and since I’m half Italian, once in awhile I take a bath in olive oil…ha! not really but I do smear it on my skin when I’m cooking with it. The problem with that is I smell like a salad the rest of the day! 🙂
Oh Sheila looks happy as a pig in a wallow there!! You do spoil that girl, don’t you?
Just reread your washing basket story. Such a wonderful story it needs rereading. Often! You should submit it for publication, Cecilia. I imagine several literary journals would love it!
Loved it all; FB’d your Sitting in the Laundry Basket; you are a glorious human being!
Must’ve been the day for it….I have DE hands too, I cleaned the chook pen ready for winter deep littering, and added a good amount of DE into the new straw, on the ground where they dust bathe and on them. The coop smells lovely, with dried herbs in their litter as well. Dog got a good rubbing with it…she enjoyed it the most, stretched out in the afternoon sun and helpfully lifting a leg or rolling over when asked. Even the cats got a dusting…..like you, we’re all bug free 🙂 It took me all day, but was worth it. Love Boo and his piggie.
Great stuff that DE. I use it in my chicken bedding too 😊
YOu are already doing a summer wallow and we are reverted back to winter. Sigh!
Linda
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I’ve been making lotion for Naomi and now the boys. It is wonderful stuff. Recently, I tried making some lotion for me that included magnesium (we call use a little more magnesium). I love it!!!! What I love even more is that it is made with all natural ingredients and love 🙂
I would love to try it.. can you bring me some when you visit?
Absolutely!!
You could read tea leaves with that hand! Might need a pano shot for that life line.
Long long long line!
I thought my gardener’s hands were pretty weathered. But yours are more seriously affected. Do give them some loving care!
It was lovely to re-read the washing basket story. Such moments centre us, and we rise again.
I have no preferences, love creams and moisturizers, buying, making, mixing, rubbing in and washing off soon enough after the next task but I keep it everywhere. I’ll look for the body shop hemp cream as well! Rubbing in splotches of cooking oil and the fat off the rissole mix, then washing off… and so on. Our hands are our greatest tools, at our brain’s bidding. Sometimes they don’t even need that, muscle memory guides them. As a teenager I used to worry my nails weren’t long and elegant but now I just marvel at what my hands accomplish.
Mayhap in Tima’s case it would be more accurate to call her a Bacon out at sea. But not out loud! I think I need to get a bit of DE going soonish, too, in the weedy little land holding that is my personal fiefdom, and see if I can’t discourage a few of the crawlies from chomping on some of the tenderest plants. Hey, maybe if I eat, you know, about 14 metric tonnes of DE it’ll chase the germs out of my bod, too? 😉 Ha.
Take care of those hardworking hands, my sweet; they are your most fabulous tools after that magnificent Brain of yours.
xoxo,
K
Wonderful.. I won’t tell her you called her a BACON! still laughing..c
Proper working hands. Now go and rub them with lanolin or oive oil!