(photograph courtesy of Hugo Photographic Productions – he said I looked like a beautiful baby)
The turkeys and the cats and the dogs. 
Waited. It rained all day.
I did not mean to go to sleep. It just happened. The fire was burning, everyone was safe and fed but not necessarily dry and no turkeys were drowning from looking up into the rain with their mouths open. It really did rain all day. I put my list of work down to get up and make a cup of tea. And then I fell into sleep. Head first.
Sleep is a curious thing. To become unconscious like that without being knocked on the head.How does that even happen. Is there an off button. And if so who pushes it. It really does not look safe. Eyes closed. Vulnerable. I wonder if the ancients slept so long and so hard and so frequently. I think they must have napped more than slept, with one eye open for a predator or danger. How then have we evolved to sleep so frequently (every twelve or fourteen hours and sometimes a siesta in the afternoon as well for much of the world) and so soundly. And if we do not get some sleep every single night our metabolisms begin to topple. We drag and crumble. We whine “I’m tired.” I seldom sleep in the afternoon – this is my prep time for the dinner and the afternoons chores. I send all my workers off for a siesta and then turn the music on and get busy. To sleep is unheard of for me. Yet there is the evidence – I was Dead to the World. I had no idea that Hugo took that photo of me. I was fast asleep. Heard nothing and Saw nothing. Held fast.
I had better get up and get going. Before I fall back to sleep without even starting the day. No excuse for lingering this morning.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Love
celi
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
60 responses to “while miss c slept”
I reckon that nature claims back what it feels was unfairly taken. 🙂 Good morning, c.
Good thought! I will have to use that next time sleep overtakes me unexpectedly.
Beautiful thought Misky 🙂
Good morning, Veronica. Or afternoon, if we’re in the same time zone. 😀
Morning Misky!!
Alas, still on Pacific time. One more month and I’ll be invading OXON. 😀
Tis the season to snuggle up and doze in front of the fire 🙂 Did those silly turkeys ever decide whether to light up or just eat that smoke? Laura
Pooped on it I think!! ha ha a – Poor Hugo what he has to put up with!
Brilliant post as always. I love your posts from the farm. Sometimes a nap is just necessary 🙂
Good morning Anne!.. c
Beautiful photo of you Celi! Well done Hugo 🙂
He caught that lovely rainy day light! .. c
I would say you needed the sleep! The time change has me goofed up. I’ve been up since 4:30. I think a nap will be in store for me this afternoon.
Usually Connie shows up… Not the consue52…hmm wonder what I did?
Me too! Trying to get the animals to except the time change is hard too! My dogs, cats and chickens have their own clocks, they never go forward or back. So they tell ME when it is time to eat/play/sleep!
Those turkeys want to live indoors, just like the pigs 😉
I never leave the door open now that they are all on the loose – they would be in the house for sure! c
No doubt …and calling Tima to join in 😉
That is a very beautiful picture of you. And, yes, the vulnerability of sleep engulfs you. I am fascinated by pictures of people sleeping.
One time at the California State Fair (I was a Fair junkie in my past life) I took photos of children sleeping. With permission, of course. Lots of love, Gayle in sunny Sacramento, California
Celi sleeping. You must have been exhausted, weren’t you? Oh, it transports such a calm and peaceful atmosphere, this “Hugo photo company”-pic. Well done. I mean sleeping, really deep sleeping, is deep, deep faith (or confidence). Otherwise you could not close an eye at all.
Hell, and the birds have occupied Hugo’s smoko chair!
I love, love that beautiful table with cat – it’s kind a still life, isn’t it? It caught my eye already the other day, when you presented it to us (with two cats then). Have a lovely Sunday, all!
It is a lovely time of year for that table – all golds and reds.. c
That Sleeping Celi photo should make it into the calendar, it has such rarity value! I find it hard to believe you are not in perpetual motion, but here is the evidence! He has taken a beautiful photo, with such a sense of peace and comfort, he has a clever and insightful eye, that young Hugo.
The turkeys and Geraldine on the smoko chair made me laugh, they have the air of waiting for a bus and grumbling at how long it’s taking!
Oh, that would be a nice caption: “Birds waiting for the bus to come….”.
Nice! Comment and post capture humanity in nature and nature in humans: beauty in work, humor in spirit, reverence all round–the essence of kitchen and garden–why I love this site.
smiles! c
Exactly so!
I think maybe our ancestors slept better than we do. I got one of the Garmin fit things to track my sleep patterns this spring. On average I sleep deeply 3 hours a day and lightly 3 hours a day. But I lay in bed an average of 8 hours a day. (1/3 of my life is in bed….. 10 hours working/driving to from/work and the remainder getting ready for work) You are quite beautiful when you sleep too. Just like your animals are so precious when they sleep. I think peaceful sleep is the reward for being a good person.
Or either ill-gained respite for the “bad” ones. Heheh. Love, Gayle
OR a respite for US who suffer with the bad ones deeds! 😉
and my next task on the web is to go see Snoopy over at GoComics: http://assets.amuniversal.com/b43b1e3043af0133095c005056a9545d
It has been raining in Texas also. Prayers to all in Central Texas!!! Say on HIGH ground!
The reason you slept was because having had months of hard Farmy work, you went to THE BIG CITY, which surely zonked you. Thank you Hugo for that lovely picture.
Lovely warm sunshine still here, thanks to a blocking high pressure area over Europe which looks like haging around for a bit..
love,
ViV xox
Oh, you’re lucky. We got it cold here in Munich – it’s 8°C it’s coooold, and yes sunny.
What a lovely picture of you sleeping. You must have needed it, right? Thanks, Hugo!
Such a peaceful image and a rare Celi sighting. Sometimes a nap is just what you need, and well-deserved, I might add…
You know when you have been away and there are new players on the farm who is Hugo?
Hugo has been helping me on the farm for almost three months now. He will be leaving in a little over two weeks.. so sad I will be! c