And today being Monday we look back on Sunday which was a gloriously sunny gardening day until the clouds rolled in and it rained buckets again. 
So far this summer we have had torrential downpours every week. Sometimes two or three a week. There has been no chance to get another cut of hay in. And with all the wet the alfalfa field is turning yellow. So I have decided that I will get out the old hay mower today and attach it to the tractor and gently cut a line every day, fork it onto the truck and take it to the west side to feed the Bobbys over there.
The hay is not much good anymore – having grown way past its prime, losing protein and nutrients to its flowers but it will still be good feed.
But it kind of works out : the west side fields are flooded so it is best to bring the cows up to the barn, lock them off their own fields while the pasture recovers and hand feed them this failed hay field.
It is a lot of extra work but I cannot get a hay baler on this field, I don’t have days enough to dry it for baling anyway so I am going to feed it straight out. Get it off the field and start again.
My girl is still under the weather with a bad throat but I will push on until she is better. 
Selling eggs, basil and lambs quarters this week.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
Weather – a beautiful still clear morning – 67 right now. And a whole morning to work in my beautiful gardens before the rain comes.
Monday 07/03 40% / 0.07 in
Variable clouds with scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly during the afternoon hours. High 88F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Monday Night 07/03 20% / 0 in
Partly cloudy skies. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 64F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph.
The Kitchen's Garden 
40 responses to “Sunday from Monday”
It all looks lush – I hope you get a good price for the herbs 🙂
It’s 4 a.m. here and I woke half an hour ago because it was too hot to sleep. Not a drop of rain in sight this month either. I wish I could share my day and borrow some of your rain. Sorry to hear your girl is under the weather. I hope she recovers soon.
Ok my comment disappeared on me 😦 Hope you have a good week. Laura
J > You’re certainly having a wet summer, so far!
Weather wise it has been an odd summer. Rain – lots of it. The rain is going to help your oak though if you can keep it standing. Hay will be high this winder I fear for all the fields that couldn’t be cut. Happy Monday!
Just loving the pics of your gardens! Do people buy the lambs quarter to put in salads?
Too bad for thr wxtra work but a way to use up what you have on hand. Our Canada Day celebrations in the Winnipeg area were dry but cool. Watching the fireworks at night, I was wishing I had put on a wintercoat! I hope the Bobbies are developing their market weight. Are they all going this fall?
So many challenges for you to face, one after another, after another…
That sky is spectacular! Enjoy your garden
The pictures are gorgeous. The sky spectacular. I am on love with your milkweed. Butterfly feast, right? So sorry about the hay…but love your constant, reinventing ingenuity. I’ll take a nice bunch of basil please! And some lamb as well. What lovely food you are making!
If my rabbits could, they would buy all your lambs quarters. I always give it to them when I find it growing around my yard. I never have eaten it myself though.
It is a delicious (even better; ) substitute for spinach and freezes very well: )
That photo of the herd in the foreground with the torrents of rain and darkness falling behind them is quite beautiful.
Storms over fields, small cows and smaller farm houses fenced around by bright wind turbines, even old wood fences seen close up — why are they so captivating here and not, as I have experienced them, from a car window ? It’s like living in two worlds. But what I really wonder is, does the artist see such things from her tractor, and if so how on earth could she ever get any work done? Perhaps there’s a second world for all of us, and maybe a third, . . .
Good luck with selling your produce. I think of you when I go to the farmer’s market.
Your basil is so beautiful!! Wow. I usually only plant a couple of plants and this year mine is having trouble with the heat then the rain that makes a sauna so my poor plants suffer even in the shade.