Calf Playtime!

Bobby T decided his mother was spending too much time with a coffee sack and went over to play too. Bobby T
Bobby T

Bobby T

Bobby T - Dutch Belted calf

Bobby T and Lady Astor

Like a kid when his Mum is trying to get ready to go out.

Here is a small selection of images from the gardens but really it is so hard to show them properly without getting a really big crane and hanging out up there with a camera.

There are four major gardens this year.  These pictures are from three of them. The new one by the field is sunflowers and sweetcorn but already the weeds are out of control so I am tilling in some of the crops and replanting in pumpkins, cucumbers, etc. Cows and pigs love pumpkins too.DSC_0697

And YES. Yesterday the hay got rained on. Sigh.  Actually it got rained on for almost the whole morning. It is very wet. But it will begin to dry tomorrow.  In fact the rain coming in at the end of the week, that forced my hand, has now been replaced in the forecast with sunny days so now we should have plenty of time for it to dry.   Though no counting the bales until they are hatched.  But I am over it. We will get it baled – one way or the other.

I hope you have a lovely day.

celi

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31 responses to “Calf Playtime!”

  1. What wonderful pictures – all of them! Bobby T is a darling – big eyes, big nose, shiny coat.

    I don’t know if anyone else sees it, but that cloud photo jumped at me. There is a shadowed face of an angel with wings spread, feathers fluffed up, holding a tiny child. Just me and my wild imagination??

    Chris S in Canada

  2. Glad you’ll be getting some good drying weather after the rain. It’s always tricky to make hay here in New England – I swear hay farmers are the most popular people I know! – but a few years ago we had such a relentlessly wet summer the farmers were struggling with every cut. That autumn It was impossible to buy hay and be sure it wasn’t going to have mold in it when you opened a bale in winter. What a winter. It was horrible.

  3. Forgot to say, the pictures of the calf are beautiful, as is he.
    (Got distracted by the thought of hay. Happens easily!)

  4. The Bobby T photos are Essence of Cuteness. So good to see the vege gardens… we are about to travel for several months but are looking forward afterwards to getting our vege garden in… a smaller scale being just the 2 of us… in the meantime we get inspiration from others ☺

  5. I want to take my laptop out and show MY garden YOUR garden pictures. Seems you are an entire month ahead of us. Up here on the Canadian Shield we often find that we have a tiny microclimate of our own. Our leaves have just popped … the garden is ‘thinking about it’. 😉 LOVED the eyes of your so beautiful cows today – mom and bobby. And that monster cloud … woah!!! Impressive photography today Celi. Loving it.

  6. Very impressed with your vegetable gardens . . . I guess the cow poo forms most of the manure. Glad you did not get our East Coast low rain over the weekend: up to 400mms + storm force winds is the worst ‘incident’ since 1974. Not much sleep since the phone and mobile kept of going half the night with continuous warnings of surrounding flooding and possible evacuations . . .

  7. That’s a storm cloud! LOL I love how you can see so far, watch the weather come in or pass by. Handsome little Bobby “helping” Mama. The gardens look great. Pumpkins! There will be a lot of happiness on the farmy come fall!

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