My friend John from Chicago has many Aunties called Zia (Tia means Aunty in Spanish) and his favorite (though he has other favorite Aunties too) has an apple tree here that has just come into blossom. Planted right beside the turkey house. And then I have Tia the heifer. And then there is Aunty Del named for my own favorite Great Aunty Del. So with Tia, Zia and Aunty – they felt like the three Tia’s to me.
Yesterday I brought Tia and Aunty Del back to the home pastures so I had Three Tias on my mind.
Yesterday had a still stormy disposition but no good rain.
The lack of clarity in the above blossom from Tia’s apple tree is testament to the endless strong wind.
Aunty Del.
Tia.
I am looking for a nice Angus bull that these two girls can go and visit. I am hoping to gentle Tia and see if she will work out as a milk cow. It all depends on her udder – she is out of an outrageously valuable Holstein show cow Mama and the bull was an Angus. So being half Angus and half Holstein it is possible she will have a milk cow udder or maybe not. We will see. But she is a lovely gentle animal and I am going to train her as a milk cow anyway. If they breed and deliver ok they will produce two beef calves and if all goes well I will milk the Aunty’s next summer.
WaiWai would like to announce that the last scab has come off his back and his skin is completely healed. So all up it must be a year since he was set on fire and now look at him. Healed and even sleeping with Tima and Tane in the night times. Not close yet, but in the same room.
Sheila.
The cold is coming back with the nights going down into the low 40’s in the next few days. The chicks are too big for their old heated table so I made them a new one with one of the heated mats (it is made of fiberglass – heavy and rigid) set on brick ‘feet’. This is plenty big enough for the twenty Rhode Island Red chicks to get under if they get cold.
This morning the wind is blowing briskly.
I love how this shot shows the true state of my tea towels!
I picked four pounds of asparagus yesterday and then washed the usual three dozen eggs. The rhubarb is not quite long enough to pick yet but I will be listing horse radish leaves for sale next week as well. My daily take is rising.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Love Celi
WEATHER: Very windy. Mostly scudding clouds and a little brave sun.
Friday 05/04 20% / 0 in
A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Partly cloudy. Windy during the morning. High 76F. Winds WNW at 20 to 30 mph.
Friday Night 05/04 10% / 0 in
A clear sky. Low 52F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Sun
5:47 AM 7:52 PM
Moon
Waning Gibbous, 82% visible
The Kitchen's Garden 
61 responses to “THE THREE TIA’S”
Oh WaiWai looks wonderful! You are a miracle worker for sure. And I am glad to hear that you may be milking again. Tia looks so sweet. Your tea towels look a lot like mine :*)
Wai is quite the star! I tell all my guest his story and they are amazed! As am I really ‘!!
Good thing you have strong clips for those towels or they may have ended up in the next state!
Lucky for me! They just arrived and are all that was promised! Lucky me !!
Aren’t everyone’s tea towels like that…? Congratulations, Mr WaiWai, you and Miss C have done it between you. A whole skin is a wonderful thing.
Though not the tea towel you gave me a few summers ago / that one is Sturdy! A little faded but no holes!!
that is the most extraordinary cloud, it looks like somebody has rolled out some modelling clay and slapped it on the sky! All three Tias looking good 🙂 What a wind, I would be hiding for sure. Laura
Those clouds are hard to photograph too – being so long!
Wai Wai’s announcement made me grin!
I am grateful for him – he beat the flies by a whisker.
Rhubarb, yum! The plants here have just started producing, and I made some really great apple-rhubarb crisp with it and some apples I froze last fall (my most recent blog post has the recipe if anyone is interested!).
Yay for Wai! That is so wonderful! I started following your blog right when you got him because I stumbled upon his story and had to know how it all turned out. Now I read you every morning and am totally invested in your whole farm’s story. Someday I want to bring the husband and kids and stay at the B&B!
I would love you to bring the family here – the kids could help me with chores- I have the perfect pint sized jobs. Remember to send me an inquiry first so I can give you the fellowship discount!
Thank you! This summer’s vacation is already scheduled with out-of-town family weddings and other events, but I am thinking maybe next summer…
I will be here!
Sheila looks like a very, very happy camper! 🙂
She is so very happy to be inside- she gets more attention in there
Those are likely shelf clouds.
Hi Jim! That one was so huge on the horizon – but I find them hard to capture in a photograph.
You did a good job. They are very wide angle.
I am excited that you have the opportunity to sell some of what you grow. It’s good to get wholesome food out into the community. I will be planting some things for sale, too, but mostly decorative things that give joy instead of a harvest. Wish me luck. I’m late getting started.
Oh! I wish you lots of luck. My best success is when I find my market first then grow later/ people love decoration/ you will do well..
WaiWai looks wonderful. Congratulations you saved him.
He has done amazingly well – it still amazes me
I did a happy dance for Wai! That is great news!!!!! And here you go – didn’t you just say you would not be milking next summer? You just can’t stand the thought of no fresh butter, cheese and ice cream…. not matter the work that goes into it.
I just love Aunty D’s neck. We had one bull, Pepper, that loved neck rubs right behind his big ole head. I would get on one side and Mom or Dad on the other and he would just groan/moan. Yes – full size HUGE bull – Red Brangus – and he was more pet than aggressive bull. But he did his job well and kept our small herd growing for 5+ years. I think he was 9 or 10 when he came to live with us so he was getting to be an old man at 15. Our next bull was full Brahma (BABY!) and was nice to women – but oh so aggressive to men. After living with him two years – Dad decided AI was the way to go. Few too many close calls! But I could load him in the trailer in no time. Dad never could get that bull loaded.
Okay – I guess I’m chatty today…… Have a great weekend! (I know, I know – you don’t get weekends on a farm…..)
Chatty is good. I am not milking this summer. I will breed the cows this summer and hopefully they will calve next spring – then I will be milking. Your bull sounds just lovely. Wish our Dexter had been like that but no such luck. C
It has been a might windy around here lately too! And Aunt in Spanish is Tia too 🙂
Tia is a beautiful word- musical
If that’s a big long tube cloud, I believe they are rare. I saw a documentary about people who go in search of them, a couple of years ago.
One wouldn’t recognise the old Wai next to the new Wai – you have worked a miracle.
Sheila looks content, as always!
That is Sheila ‘s joy – her huge capacity for contentment.
Bless her!
WOW!! Those clouds rolling across the sky ~~ blowing the towels ~~ and Boo Boy is there to catch ’em in case they blow off!!!
Love all the close ups of the cows beautiful faces!! And then the Wai Boy!! He’s looking great ~~ thanks to his MasterMiss!!!
Have a great day!!
Carol
Thank you Carol – I hope your day was good too!
my favorite photo is of WaiWai…..so wonderful to see him so well….makes me smile!
It has been a long haul – now maybe I wont be running out of his skin treatments every month.