Woke up to pouring rain this morning with its company the thunder and lightening. Yesterday we had 78f/25c and high winds which would have warmed the earth up. It certainly warmed me up! So the rain will encourage some grass growth. 
And I need that grass to grow. Because my hay pile is very low now. The cows are still on shut down on concrete or the sacrifice paddock, eating hay, waiting. Alex is not a quiet waiter. I think I am seeing changes in Alex’s udder too. Most of these changes are out of the corner of my eye but they are worth noting.
In the meantime I am going to scout about and see if I can buy some more hay. Though the loaves and the fishes come to mind every time I break one hay bale and dole it out. Though it should be the loaves and the fish. I don’t think fishes is proper English! I mean you don’t say “I am off out to buy some fishes for dinner”. However – luckily I am not feeding five thousand!
Above are the pictures of the tailings. Enough said there I think.
My summer workers are in short supply this year. There are large gaps in my diary. I understand – they work for free through the wwoofer program so maybe they are looking for bigger farms with woods and lakes to play in or mountains to climb on their days off. And I am careful not to set up a summer that depends on help. I am careful to only bite off as much as I can chew.
I think it is like teaching – some years you have an amazing group of rowdy involved kids and other years the students are quieter. I think I am looking at a quiet year. But this is life – it will work out.
The days will go past at the same speed. Though I often think that time itself is actually elastic. Maybe time really does pass slowly sometimes, then speed up at other times. It feels like it. How do we know this is not actually happening? What would that study be called. Quantum physics? There is a study of time within quantum physics.
(pause as Cecilia thinks) What is a quantum anyway?
OK, I looked it up. Wikipedia. I quite like this sentence.
In physics, a quantum (plural: quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction.
Have a lovely day.
celi
ps. High of 68f today with more rain on the way. Go grass!
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51 responses to “The Loaves and the Fishes”
Time…it’s relative. ⏰
Somehow I just knew you would come up with the perfect line!! Have a relatively lovely day. c
Happy to oblige. The day is off to a good start.
I don’t understand that mess. Is that where they cleaned a ditch by the road? I can’t believe that! I would have a holy fit! A few years back, the county wanted to put snow fence along my hayfield, and since I am a nice person, I let them. The next spring, after they removed the fence, I found a broken-off metal fence post and other stuff. I told them that they were never to step foot in my field again! I told them to me, it is sacred land. I am located in Upstate Central NY, and even though it is certainly not ideal farmland (very acidic soil, kind of rocky, and hilly), I love it because I have no conventional farms near me, so I don’t have to worry about pesticide drift and things like that. I raise grass-fed cattle, grass-fed lamb, pasture poultry, and four Hereford pigs a year. If I was nearby, I would gladly help you clean up that mess!
There are miles and miles of drainage ditches that run right through the farm land, so this is literally going through the back of our property stretching for miles and miles either way. The mess is mammoth. Your farm sounds just like mine -have a great day.. c
How is it that you had such a warm day yesterday? It’s just slightly above freezing here but we have that rain system too and by the looks of it, it’ll be here until Monday.
It is cooler today but quite quite calm. You must be getting tired of winter if you still have snow and ice! c
Well, you promised the photos, and there they are in all their glory! To add on another topic, time is a man-made invention so the world can run on the same schedule; hence , time zones, etc. But in the universes, ‘our time’ is of no consequence whatsoever. Sorry, too many science lectures…!
Oh I don’t mind lectures at all! Have a lovely evening Sunny.. c
I mentioned to the G.O.that you have gaps…hint hint once again… He hasn’t taken the bait yet but I’m never giving up hope ☺
Now wouldn’t that be a fine thing!!! c
D > Quantum test: “Jonathan, are you awake?” … J > “Uuugh”
I just listened to a podcast recently about quantum physics and Carlo Rovelli mentions time throughout the interview: http://onbeing.org/programs/carlo-rovelli-all-reality-is-interaction/
in one part he says (with a heavy Italian accent, which is why the phrasing is a little odd): “What has happened is that we have learned that our direct intuition of time — we have a very good idea what time is, right? I mean, if you ask somebody who doesn’t know physics what time is, he knows what time is. But that idea of time is wrong.
It’s not wrong for us. I mean, we have, I don’t know, one hour for talking, and that’s one hour, and number of years for living, and so on and so forth. But it’s an approximation. It’s like the Earth being flat around us. The more you learn about nature, the more you discover that, at some fundamental level, time is not there. And in the basic equations of the theory in which I and many colleagues are working now in quantum gravity, time is just — there’s nothing like time.”
I too agree .. some days much faster than others 😃