The Farm has entered one of those longed- for pauses. There is rhythm. Nothing new on the horizon (too late for more ducklings – have to wait for spring). The plan for today day is ordinary: clean one corner of the shed, dole out pumpkins, prepare back pens for winter. Laundry, floors, feed Piglet more, less often. Order more feed, send out egg invoices, bake the bread, pay a few bills. Mow a little lawn, greet today’s guests, see a man about a pig. Usual stuff. The Matriarch’s dog is visiting and I have reached exactly my limit. 
Though you never know when one of the Gods I Thanks will pull back her arm and hurl another flaming javelin with note attached into my midst.
So we will take the breather with gratitude. 
I hope you have a lovely day too.
Love celi
WEATHER: Perfect Vitamin D Day. 
C
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42 responses to “PAUSE”
Thats a good idea..relax and recharge the batteries….
Well I am not sure about the relaxing side of it !
Your limit sounds like way above the limit of many of us! Enjoy the period of balance and relative tranquility.
Balance – that is the word! Speedy balance.
Such lovely photos today… Those ducks look so still, as if carved from some beautiful timber, and Molly’s baby visiting the milk bar, but my favourite is Boo exchanging gossip with the chooks. Your brief patch of calm communicates itself in the images…
Keep those pumpkin stems and make some cute fabric pumpkins using the stems in them. You can find cheap fabric somewhere. Old clothes or thrift shop.
Then make the pumpkins on those really cold days or nights.
and then sell them for xtra money or give them as gifts…..
Sadly I am not even remotely crafty. No one in their right mind would buy anything I crafted!! In the evenings after dishes and night chores and collating the photos for the blog -by then it is 10 or 11. – my down time is SLEEP!
Gosh! It is getting cold there.
love the idea of a pause. The look between the dog and the chicken, while the other one is pecking away. There’s a story here….
I thought the rooster might be being rude…..’you sleep with pigs’ kind of thing, with Boo looking chastened.
Awesome! “How Rude” : it’s the look i gave my son the morning he slept over and his ‘rooster’ alarm sounded off!!
With all my children off on their own wonderful adventures and the farm slowing down for winter, I also find myself slogging through chores- wordless. Pictures seem to be enough for now.
Lovely golden light pin the animals, enjoy the pause, you have earned it😀 Laura
Enjoy the calm….while it lasts…….
Love the photos today. Contented Ducks.Dog With Chickens.
Glad you have a planned easier day. Hope it all goes as planned.
Boo and that chicken are having a staring contest I do believe. Enjoy the routine while it lasts.
It sounds like a nice day on the farmy.
I love those moments when the world sort of gets into a grove that works. Even though it never lasts, when it’s sliding along it feels quite nice. I hope yours lasts for long enough that you decide a it of shake up would be interesting. 🙂
Yes – that is exactly it. A groove. A flow.
Sure hope you knocked on wood immediately after thinking of calm? Boo looks like he’s resisting wanting to share that bowl of feed, lol. You said “a perfect vitamin D day” so I was expecting clear skies (but not the close to freezing temperatures, BRRR!!! ):
Great photos. Those ducks do look like they are carved out of wood!