I overslept a bit but these photos are for you.
Mr Flowers is losing his tail feathers which means summer is on the wane! Sob!!
But the feathers did look rather lovely in with a vase of wheat on Sunday! 
Look at these fat bottoms. These little piggies are really getting friendly now that their mother is finally down the back with Aunty Sheila. Now that I am their source of food they are VERY friendly. 
Late. Late – I wish these images would load faster – it is so cool in these mornings now!
So, my ruined oven will no longer get up to 500 degrees. It just keeps turning off and drifting down to 400f. So I going to email our Longtime Fellow – Pete the Baker, and ask him about the bread he cooks at 4oo degrees. The oven held it’s heat to that temperature so I will adjust. 
Adjusting to new challenges is what I do best!
I put a dough of just flour and water in the fridge to autolyse for eight hours last night – then I added the starter and soon salt this morning and hopefully I will bake the following morning. The nights being so much cooler – the long cool rises I had on the weekend were so much better. 
Look at this! My latest guest created a collage of her visit!
She also left the most amazing pencil drawing of the coop – in my guest book. She is an architect originally from France and was a lovely guest in the Airbnb.
Now. I had better get going.
Time waits for no woman.
Celi
Today:
After a good day of rain yesterday, today will be clear and sunny with a high of 81 and an overnight low of 54! An incredible day!
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It was a good day, loved the rain, so needed!
We have had a few good showers lately!
Is that Mrs Flowers I spy on the car roof? If so, glad to see she’s turned up again. Those drawings are wonderful – I particularly love the tiny landscape, it looks so soft, as if seen through rain.
Yes that is our Mrs Pania Flowers!
Goodoh!
Good to see Wai Wai! He is looking good! Portly, but healthy and happy! 🙂
Bless him. He is kind of falling away – the end of his tail fell off and now his ears are rotting – yet he remains a calm gentle wee (fat) pig.
So sorry to hear that! Jethro, our very large boar, has had a large eruption of pustules on one ear that we have been treating for over a year! It seems to go through stages, getting worse and then better, then worse, and so on. It’s a bit better now, and we are hoping that it will someday clear up!
Friendly little pigs with fat bottoms……perfect.
They are getting friendly too!
Lovely all around. The drawings are beautiful! Your weather sounds perfect!
Aren’t those drawings great!
Those pigs are getting big – fancy getting food in your nose every time you eat!
I love the drawings – you could add those to your Coop Air BnB page and leave pencils and paper by the bed for all guests…
That is a most excellent idea! Thank you!
Looks like Wai is kindly lending his muscle to enlarge the ducks driveway puddle.
I was wondering if your bread baking experiments would be more effective being showcased directly on Janie’s Mill website. Blog readers would then be able to reference and order different grains and flours all in one place. Laura
Good thinking – the design people are creating a new website as we speak. And they will be using my photographs and I will have a blog. Not sure how the blog works in there but We will see.
The pigs are splendid! I have a broken oven too. It’s the opposite as yours. Races up to the highest temperature no matter what it’s on and stays there. Cooks everything in abt 10 minutes. Scary.
Mmm… Can’t help wondering if you’re both having thermostat issues…
(Less costly than a whole new stove; )
That was the part we have replaced .
One of my guests told me to be careful my oven did not blow up!! You know what I did – I baked / of course / but sent the dogs outside and put my passport in the car. In seconds my priorities were decided.
darling piggy bottoms! Good luck with the baking!
The baking is going marvelously- nothing like changing my own rules!
The piggy butts are adorable! 🙂 Sob I am…summer is fleeting, sigh…our 8 month winters will begin sooner than I want them too. Oh my oven sucks…if I set it to 500 it barely hits 450. And then when it wants, it will go down to 300 without my knowing. I’ve adjusted, but one shouldn’t should one? 😉
That is exactly what mine is doing! No harm in a few adjustments !
Thank you for taking the time even though you were running late! Those butts are ADORABLE! The pencil drawings are beautiful. What amazing talent to be able to do that!
I agree and how lovely to share them with us!
I love Mad Dog’s comment about getting food in your nose every time you eat. Hilarious!
And Wai Wai –is he okay? Is he sleeping there or what?
And oh those drawings are so lovely, delicate.
Yes Wai is great – such a nice pig
Very Farmy Photos. Love it.
Very farmy indeed!
Piggie fannies are the best! Love the art work too. Looking forward to hearing about your bread baking with the recalcitrant oven!
I love that word recalcitrant- one of my favorites!
Love the drawings – would
Make beautiful cards!! Piggy bottoms just make me smile!