Yesterday was spent driving through the filthy weather to the airport to deliver Hugo to the plane.
Then driving back through filthy weather home again.
Filthy can be beautiful though. It just depends how you look at it. And who you look at it with. On the way up I had two young men and on the way back only one. Hugo has gone but Jake is still close by. And we will both miss Hugo and his every present laughter. 
As you know every night I load my pictures and make notes on what I will write about in the morning. And last night, after John had gone to bed at 7pm as usual, I sat alone in front of the fire and listened to the wind howling through a crack in a window. I knew I should get up and shut the window properly but instead I sat with the laptop warming my lap, staring at the fire and thinking about the weeks ahead. I listened to the intense quiet. Then I looked at the diary properly and GOODNESS! I had better get a wriggle on with the calendars and things! It is getting LATE.
So tomorrow I will finish the calendar and the little picture book. Then I will set up a page for orders. Once I know how many people want a calendar I will proceed with the printing. The calendars are often quite beautiful I love making them and love looking at them as they collect over the years.
For those of you who are new to the Fellowship – Sheila my big fat pig never bred, so never produced piglets. Usually on a farm this size she would have been sold because she could not contribute to the farm. I am not running a zoo. This is a farm to grow food or animals to sell or barter for food. Sheila is probably over 500 pounds (about 230kg) so she is too big to be a pet. So The Fellowship of the time offered to adopt her and donate to her feed with the calendar and the T shirt. So she could make money for the farm this way. (I need to get to work on the T shirt too!) Sheila is quite a clever and loving pig (and not all pigs are clever and loving believe me!) and I am so glad we kept her. And the calendar celebrates all our animals, as many as I can get onto 12 pages anyway!
So now it is time again for our annual Sheila calendar – my season went long this year so I am a little late getting onto it but I will work fast!
I will set up a page tomorrow with all the prices, etc, it will be above the Header tomorrow you can go there to see the prices and register for a copy. This is just for fun remember – You are NOT EXPECTED to buy a calendar – Sheila does not eat that much – it is just a lovely way for those of you who wish to – to contribute. The calendars themselves are 24.99 to print and most donations are usually about 5 dollars. We will ask Connie what the postage will be this year – I usually do a flat rate.
When I make the calendars I only choose 12 pictures (which is terribly hard ) so last year I popped all the left over (and still very good) pictures into a little picture book. This will be for sale this year as well. I like to print the best of my pictures and the little book is a perfect way to do this. And might be a fun gift!
So now that the house is quiet again and Hugo has helped me get up to date – I will begin work on the pictures.
I just looked at the weather forecast and there is SNOW forecast for Friday and Saturday. SNOW! Are they out of their MINDS! Surely we will not get snow yet.
Have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
34 responses to “Filthy Weather”
The weather was befitting a hard goodbye. I have never had a farmy calendar. I hope I can get this one this year. If you need help with anything graphic, please let me know! x
Your reaction to the snow forecast matches mine! Just not ready for that!
You’ve got such a marvellous selection of outstanding images. That calendar and the accompanying book are going to be really something. I hope the silence in the house isn’t going to get too much on your nerves, once you have got used to the luxury of solitude once again 🙂
Even busy with “non” farmy things C. Strange how you aren’t ready for the snow and me, well I have never seen snow!
Have a beautiful day.
🙂 Mandy xo
SNOW!?!? Yes, most surely they are out of their minds!!! What a silly thought, and prediction!!! Let’s just not pay a bit of attention to that!!! 🙂
Oh dear, no snow please. Your weather shot today is superb – it was like that here too yesterday, I didn’t stir outside all day. Now the sun is shining and I shall get out there as soon as I’ve finished this comment.
I’m looking forward to the calendar and little book.
Lots of love,
ViV xox
It’s been foul of fowl here too, with a storm the weather men call Barney, but it seems to have passed for now. I noticed an article on turkey being the new chicken and thought it might interest you:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/could-turkey-be-the-new-chicken-craze/
🙂
‘snow way of knowing with the weather. Our heat wave was broken with huge storms the last two evenings – at last. We have had hailstorms with stones the size of golf balls, so what didn’t die of thirst because of water restrictions, got flattened but our gardens are so grateful for all the rain, not to mention the farmers and their livestock 🙂 Did Hugo arrive back safely? Laura
Our corner had torrential rain (such as you picture) and hours of 40 and 50, and even some 70 mph winds in places. We are left with trees down, power outages, flooding from overflowing rivers and buckets of mountain snow…which can stay exactly there for right now, where it belongs. I say no snow in the lowlands until January!
You just reminded me of something I have to get done in short order. Oh my, who turned the dial up to race?? We had weather just like that yesterday. Fortunately no one here had to drive far in it. They are prediction rain and snow with 29 degrees for Thanksgiving and all those people including my niece and her family driving to have dinner somewhere. I moved away from the snow since I’m no longer able to shovel it. No shovel required for the rain but I don’t have to muck about in it. I guess the weather was reflective of your mood yesterday at seeing Hugo go home. I’m glad you are all safely home again. Have a good one today.
Your weather matches ours here in Minnesota. And, yes, some snow possible here, too. I also shout, “Are they crazy?”
My brother loves your calendar and the T-shirt.
I can hardly wait for the Little Book, my grand-daughter will be so excited!
Our weather is quite fickle here. Very cold for a few days, which made walking around the zoo in shorts much less pleasant, and now we’ve sailed back up into the 70s.
I am very interested in a book.
OH! I will be getting a calendar for sure and the book and a t-shirt- you have those? I can give books to all my little Great nieces and nephews…and believe you me they are great!
Cheers! and hugs!