I am cold this morning. It is 54F/12C. This is downright chilly for high summer out here. 
You know how you are fast asleep in bed but woken by being cold but not THAT cold, just cold enough to WANT to get up and get another cover for the bed, but NOT cold enough to wake up and GET another cover for the bed. So you just lie there feeling cold. Well, that is me. The lazy shiverer. 
We are in for beautiful days though. In the 70’s this week. Great for loading hay.
I bought another hundred bales of grass hay. Hay is not cheap this year either – these were four dollars a bale. With no rain in the forecast (I hope) Alissa and I can take our time loading it into the barn. Grass hay bales are not as heavy. 
The mini capsicums are beginning to colour and they are fantastic. They have another name but I have forgotton what it is. They are not the shape of a bell pepper – they are squatter and have a flat botttom – perfect for stuffing. 
Really small. Smaller than a tiny ramikin. You can pop a whole one in your mouth. Anyway we had them last night stuffed with pork and herbs and blue cheese. Along with a fresh beans. And a parsley cream sauce.
Very good dinner.
I need to go back through my book and see what they are called – i think they will sell well. Yesterday I took a car full of eggplant, and bell peppers and eggs and cherry tomatoes and herbs over to load into Jakes truck for the farmers market. It was a bright and cheerful delivery. We made the rosemary and thyme up into little bouquets. I hope they will sell better that way.
On Thurday we officially change the last of the feed over to GMO free. I have found a very good supplier at a resonable cost if I buy in bulk. And if everything my pigs eat is GMO free then I have a good shot at the Chicago chefs market for my pork. The pork is raised on milk and eggs too so both the cow and the chickens need to be on clean feed as well. Easy enough for the cow.
The feed is very competitive in price if I buy from growers who are not yet certified organic. It takes three years of them growing on clean fields before they can be officially organic. In the interim their grain is way lower than the cost of organic. But they are certainly Non GMO. I can never be organic – surrounded by GM fields as I am.
I have been doing this in small increments but now I will be buying this feed by the ton on a regular basis. This gave me a discount too.
So I am pleased.
I have told Alissa that we can go to Fall hours now – starting at 7.30am. I am just so tired at night and without the meat chickens we can start a little later and still be ok I think.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
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71 responses to “Why am I cold?”
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The weather here has felt like the beginning of Autumn since August started!
I hope this not mean our winter will be bleak and too cold – What am I saying – I don’t even want to think of winter!
Perhaps it means we will have a nice Indian summer 😉
I remember bales at $1 per.
Good Gods! c
It was a looooong time ago. 🙂
You’d think a bale would weigh the same whatever it was, but as I recall, straw is the lightest, then grass hay, then lucerne/alfalfa. I reckon I could still sling bales of straw, but hay’s beyond my strength these days. I like the idea of clean food all the way up and down the food chain, from the soil up…
They are not even the same size – these old balers ..
I know round bales are easier to feed out, but you can’t stack ’em so well or use the space as efficiently, can you?
well a round bale is not stacked in the barn so this does make things easier – but you need a BIG tractor to lift them so we don’t do round bales.
Lovely and cool here this morning too, with a perfectly clear blue blue sky. 17c right now at 8am, with an expected high of 23. Perfect weather. Hope you have a lovely day too. ~ Mame 🙂
Sounds lovely.. c
Are they peppadew peppers? Little bit of heat but sweet also?
It is raining again here in Texas? What’s up with all this rain? Not complaining – but just amazed by it.
So explain grass hay, vs your field hay? I think I know, but it will be a good ‘lesson’ for all of us I think. Carole over at Red Dirt explain straw vs hay one day and I had never really ‘thought’ about that difference. Happy Wednesday!
They are not hot at all – just really sweet. Grass hay is made from cut grass in the field and the alfalfa hay is made from cut alfalfa. You can also have a field of both then it is mixed grass and alfalfa hay.
Not sure if it’s the same there, but most often first cut is composed of mixed grasses (Timothy being the best?) and second cut is alfalfa?
Good Morning! So agree– the typical midwest August is so hot and, normally, dry. An anomaly year for certain 🙂 We always feed grass hay rather than 100% alfalfa. Not enough local straw here in the bluffs, so grass hay is both good food and good bedding for the outside cats & dogs. Those lovely little peppers! I buy them pickled from the deli olive bar at our KC area HenHouse markets… will have to look for the name next time. Enjoy that good clean hay-summertime scent — in your spare time! (ps – really liked the initial newsletter!)
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Thank you Ruth – have a great day
Thank you. You, too.
So happy you are getting your hay laid away for the winter! Worrying about whether you will have enough is absolutely no fun!!! We were lucky to find non-sprayed hay for $3.00 a square bale this summer! Super fortunate! Some years we have to pay up to $5.00 per bale!
what do they spray it with out there?
Can’t comment on hay fields, but GMO/ “roundup ready” grain crops are sprayed just before harvest – they call it “dessication” – to ensure the entire field “ripens” at the same time: so any straw is suspect unless you know the source is non-GMO… ):):
They spray the hay with both roundup, and grazon. The grazon stays on the grasses, even when ingested by our goats, and still takes forever, years even, to break down in the manure. If still active in the manure and put into the compost, and then into the garden, it can stunt vegetable growth and cause other plant damage in the garden. So we have to search out those who don’t spray…., and sadly there are not many that don’t.
Can’t put a “like” on this, can we): Sorry, I’ve never heard of grazon before. What “purpose” does it serve?
Basically you lie still in bed not moving, because if you move you are somehow more cold. Those peppers look delicious!
Yes that is it exactly!!
I agree with a comment above, think they’re peppadew peppers! Great post, stay warm 😀
They are really sweet and crunchy and I don’t like capsicums as a rule
Where will you store a ton of feed? Across the way? Selling to Chicago chefs sounds like wonderful!
It is on 50 pound bags and on two pallets so I always slide them straight into the garage.. no cars can fit in there anyway with all Johns junk in the way
Pimento?
It’s fall here also…the trees and weeds…and fall blooming plants are very Fall feeling. We sell out pure alfalfa hay for $4 a bale…the grass people here are charging $8 so you did well.
I sure am not at all ready for fall – August is traditionally our hottest month.
Usually for us also, but not this year. Scary…makes me wonder if we are in for a long winter…I sure hope not.
ohh your dinner sounds so tasty. Have a great day.
You too Janet – hope all is well with you!
Yes all great thanks 😀