Because all I am going to talk about is the weather! 
For the next few months I will fret about the cold and the humidity and the wind speed and the virtual velocity (actually I have no idea what that is but it sounded good) and the fact that the dryer just quit and as I cannot dry the washing outside – it would freeze solid – the house is draped in sweet smelling slow drying laundry. And if there is bad weather in February when I want to fly out to catch my plane in California that will take me out to Australia and New Zealand there will be hell to pay and no mistake about it.
Just saying!
And as I am saving to go to Australia and New Zealand a new dryer may have to take a back seat. So from now on everything I wear will be dried the old fashioned way – in the loft above the fire- and will smell like cooking and coffee! No-one mentions the smells of those old clothes in those deeply romantic back in the day movies.
The snow came yesterday – not much – but enough to excite the dogs.
and Tima the kunekune pig.
Today we are going to take the bull by the horns or in this case the little Sow by the Feet and trim Tima’s hooves.
Also Poppy is coming into Heat so I am hoping that this evening I can introduce her to the Boar – Manu. Wish me luck. If I take her in to him at the right time there will be no trouble. If I get it wrong – well – I will have trouble. But I know Poppy well and I have worked all the anticipated problems and am confident. Plus I can move very fast if necessary. I believe I can out jump a pig!
I hope you have a lovely day.
Happy New Years Eve for all of you on this side of the pond.
Much love
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
59 responses to “Don’t listen to me”
Happy New Year all…..a good third of the new year has happened here already. A cloudy damp grey day, but the washing will dry anyway….my house is on stilts, so the washing goes under and the wind blows through, bit like Kate, no need for dryers here.
A very happy, healthy, prosperous 2016 to all – well, I have been ‘there’ for nearly eleven hours and it’s nice 😀 !! Even if sleepy and with ears still blocked from the fireworks we do not usually have here – shall catch up tonight! Since I came here nearly 23 years ago I have been a line-dry gal also as my cosy cottage simply lacks the space for an electric one: lovely fresh smells – as my very coldest temp is -2C and my Hills Hoist [Aussies will understand] situated amongst flower beds about ten metres from the back door, no complaints . . . good luck with the piggies . . . and that smidgen of snow must have been puzzling for some . . .
I remember being little at the farmhouse and there was this odd washing “machine” on the back porch. A big tub to stuff clothes in and fill with water, then hand crank to swish them around, then reach in and pull items out one by one and tuck them into a wringer bridging across the top to squeeze water out by turning a handle ( and if the item was put in clumped too think, your couldn’t turn the wringer – and stuff would get stuck. Then clothes were hung on the line. Sometimes the clothes dried/froze into stiff boards – like paper doll clothes. We kids thought it was funny and would sneak over and touch them…and get yelled out to keep dirty fingers off. Really hard work for moms back then.
May your new year be filled with adventures and delight!
What a wonderful image – I would love one of those old tubs on my verandah now – well maybe in the summer – the winter is harder that is for sure..
Wish I had the poor old think. It was a wonder in it’s time…sitting under dripping clothes on the line provided the original child’s outdoor cooling station…of course there was some discussion after about not sitting in the wet red dirt. (Summer memories get us through the winter, right? Stay warm and dry….we’re cold, grey, and soggy)
Good luck with Poppy! Happy New Year to you lovely 😃
Out-jump a pig? Poppy, maybe, but I’m not sure about those two gilts! Hopefully you will not need to jump. All the weather you haven’t had is showing up now.