Today I intend to compile your AMAZING list of books.
Yesterday evening strong winds and rain from the South were forecast so after the milking Hugo and I closed up the barn, replaced spent light-bulbs, made softer and deeper beds for the pigs and calves, and led the big cows in under the trees with hay for dinner.
In the winter the focus shifts from the fields into the barns and the barn, especially the house barn, begins to swirl with magic. It is light, sound, scent and movement. Last night I felt the first strands lift up and begin the winter weaving. Just a whisper of it. Like a web but no spider, more like fairies of old. The rising of it.
Mistress Wind sings through the cracks in the doors, just a little, to let me know she is coming with her cousin: The Cold.
I am almost ready for them.
But first I shall collate our List of Books for 2015 from yesterdays page, and bring that list to you tomorrow. (Hopefully if all goes well and no pigs run off!) I loved yesterday – so many recommendations! This new list will be better than ever!
Have a lovely day,
Love,
Your celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
61 responses to “The List”
I start to get fidgety if I don’t have a ‘book in waiting’, whether I intend to start reading it right away or not. I just have to know I have one on hand! I read mostly on my Nook, I really like having the digital lending library, I don’t have to leave the house. (I may be developing hermit tendencies.) I do like having a ‘real book’ but I much prefer getting them from the library. I only have limited space and I find it hard to get rid of books though I almost never reread them, go figure. I’m also a big fan of the wish lists on both the digital and brick and mortar library web sites, I find I don’t have so many scraps of paper with titles and authors written on them flying around my desk.
Celi: your post of yesterday is ‘dangerous’!! With the usual hundred million things to accomplish and the pocket book slimmer than ever, guess what I have been ‘doing’ over the past hour . . .huh? Buying so many pre-loved books mentioned yesterday – got half of them ‘postage free’ to Oz especially from the Book Depository in the UK. Perchance the owner has family in Oz 🙂 ? Anyways a whole pile for under $US50 . . . can’t wait!! But methinks I better not look at that composite list coming out tomorrow 🙂 !!! Sleep well . . .
I love barns… great photographs, Celi. I used to fall asleep in the hay with Daisy deer when she was little. There is something special about waking up with straw in your hair and stuck on your clothes. No wonder Sheila loves floophing up a big bed!
I love lists and I love books.
May I also suggest Gutenberg.org – free ebooks!! ; bookbub.com – recommends ebooks based on what you tell them are your favourite genres. A lot of them are free; and literature-map.com – type in your favourite author. They then recommend other writers whose work you might enjoy.
XO
Ps – Celi please read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver – among other things she writes about her experience raising turkeys – both funny and kind of sad…
yes I have read it – years ago actually – a lovely read! I do remember the turkeys. c
Love the piggie with its snout sniffing through the divider, and rafters full of feathered friends.