So this morning I thought I would ask you a few multi choice questions about your experience here. It will only take seconds. Even if you have never commented before I would love you to join in. It is a mix of a bit of fun and some real questions about the readers of thekitchensgarden.
The questions are the ones I woke up with in my head this morning. Nothing is terribly deep. If you have questions you think I should ask (or you would like to answer): pop them in the comments and I will include them in another poll.
Remember this is NOT A TEST! (laughter.) Just a few questions over a cup of tea.
Cats just generally sit about looking sweet don’t they.
Last question.
Thank you for joining in! It is raining this morning and warm still and I need more coffee. Usually my brain does not have to work this hard in the morning. Have a lovely day.
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
87 responses to “Polling day –”
I assume that’s Geraldine being naughty 😉
Yes, that was Geraldine – cleaning up what TIMA started! Timma got out in the night and ripped open as many bags as she could reach. Fat pig. c
Of course!
Yours is my go to blog each and every morning. Love getting a daily farm fix as I live in town now. Love your honesty, fantastic pictures and your writing. Hope you and the farmy and the farmy fellowship have a great day! Forecast is a high of 63 today and 66 tomorrow in SE MN.
Thank you. and so far we are having a grey wet warm day – only one runaway pig so far!! c
So, I live in a town of about 100,000 in East Texas. I wouldn’t consider it a Big City, but Small Country Town isn’t quite right either (although that one is the one I chose.) Sometimes I think I read your blog to remind myself not to complain when I feel like I’m busy and having to work hard. I can always thing, “Yeah, well my job isn’t herd pigs or bale hay hard.” Hahaha.
Hi Melissa! I’m from a small town north of Fort Worth – but have family in Commerce and Paris….. I know all about Big City with a Small town feel….. LOVE East Texas and many fond memories of summers there.
Hey! I grew up in Forth Worth!!! I worked for Harris Methodist Hospital for years before meeting my beloved and moving to the great white (cough~ oh so white this year) north.!
I have to agree that the hay days are probably the hardest – lucky I only have to bring them down three at a time..c
That was a fun poll to wake up to! The first question was a bit of a booger, as all of the topics you write about are of interest! Like Vesta8, I wake up to the wonderful THEKITCHENSGARDEN daily to start my day off! We are a very fortunate farmy family indeed! Thank You!!! 🙂
We are indeed. Have a good one! c
M-F – you are my first read while I wait on jobs to run at work. I follow you, the Daily Coyote and Red Dirt in my Soul – which I think I found you from Red Dirt…… Just love checking in and seeing the goings on.
I must check out those other two – though they both sound familiar I am not a big browser of other blogs – I prefer to spend the time in here talking to you all.. c
As for the pictures and the words…I do also read it for something else, but since I can’t put that into words, I let it go. I love the pictures and the words…maybe it’s something that emerges in the mix that attracts me so much. Something ineffable.
It was from your question the other day that this post came – you asked me how many of the readers were farmers. It made me wonder how many actually lived in cities like you do- too.. c
I was surprised to see, at least when I took the poll, how many are from big cities. Lots! We need your fresh air, evidently.
I love your blog it is part of my daily routine. I read your blog with a nice glass of tea first thing in the morning.
A nice glass of tea sounds just lovely.. c
I check for your new post every single morning, I love both how connected I feel to your world (as I feel cross over to my own) and yet you see things and write things in a way that is so fresh and you.. I like it very much!
Yes! During the day I do something then wonder how you do it. I think we think in a similar way.. c
I have never actually timed how long it takes me to read a post , so – as long at it may take, and I usually pop in several times a day to check out the lounge of fellowship comments. I have on occasion wondered if that is like reading somebody else’s mail? You are warmer than us today, still being drenched with heavy rain as the cyclone passes us by 🙂 Laura
I think others do that too and we all learn so much from others comments and answers.. Hope your cyclone is over with soon!.. c
I read every day, and if I miss a day here and there, I jump back in but I have missed something…if I have already started reading today’s post it is like a spoiler! I have to go back and read each day in order to get the whole story. Each post is like a chapter in my favourite book that goes on and on…
This is SO how I feel too. My favourite book … I can read a little each day … and the characters become so dear to me I would sorely miss them should the story end!
I am sure that is the Soap Opera genre. I often tell people it is like a really really slow moving soap opera with animals.. c
Darling, it’s Dickens-quality serialization. Large, complex cast of detailed (and often eccentric) characters, both ongoing and quickly-passing storylines, and the sure knowledge that the story will always be lively and fascinating, whether the liveliness is all action or more quietly philosophical musings that challenge the imagination. I’d say you’re a Dickens of a friend!
xo,
K
I agree! Well said. And to Miss C : The animal characters seem both real and larger than life. I smile at their “human-ness” without laughing at them. You have so much respect for their individual qualities, but you don’t dip into sentimentality. A nice balance.
Isn’t there a song like that – the never ending story? c
Now I’ll have to do some research! 😉 But first, bedtime. 😀
xo
Of course you didn’t ask, but I’m in for all of the centerfold pictures of Sheila. She is all pig – hubba hubba. XOXO – Bacon
Snorts and rolls with piggy laughter ❤
Of Course – Sheila!! c
OMG I laughed out loud at this centerfold comment!
I wish I could remember how I found you – I think it was a search on WordPress, back when I knew how to do that. Things have changed so much on WP, it doesn’t feel as intuitive as it once did. Or maybe I’m just getting old! Sure am glad I found you when I did!!
Not old yet I think – but things change so fast I sometimes think – “I will let this one pass and catch up when they change it all again next time.” And this is not just wordpress – all tehchnology changes when we are looking the other way.
I try to go to your blog every day… but there are times when I’m not online for days and days. And then I do try to catch up! I totally understand what The Daily Cure meant when they said it’s hard to put into words why they love reading your blog so much. To me, it’s always a great visit with a good friend… catching up on all that’s going on with you & yours around the farm, whether it’s freezing water buckets, a new calf being born 0R a naughty pig causing destruction – it’s unfailingly interesting and touches our hearts. Sending lots of cyber hugs your way!! ; o )
Hugs for you too, Cecile, c
I read that how long question and realized I have NO idea how fast I read. But I do know that I have a terrible sense of time. I’m always sure things take longer than they do. And then I’m also always surprised at how quickly time has passed.
Anyway – I read the whole thing as part of my morning internet browsing. I read the internet in the mornings like I used to read papers. All the same comics, all the same blogs and a quick scan of the headlines for things that seem worth reading.
Hopefully I am in the comic group! Hope your day goes well .. c
I love reading about the way you farm, the animals, and I love your rants and aside thoughts. It’s all good. To be a good farmer you have to be a thinker! And I read for however long it takes, and I love reading the comments, but I am usually too busy to get back and read all the comments later. Your photos are amazing, as well. A good camera really makes things come to life :*)
Yes, I am lucky with this camera – it was a gift from a reader – do you remember – lucky I am.. c
That’s right, I almost forgot about that! Well, it for sure makes a lovely difference!