What I love about this blog is that even as the written content evolves into a less regular input from my side, with the meat chickens and bread making using up the early mornings before I go to The Mill. And lately there are less photos as I struggle along with too much to do in the afternoons.
Even with all this; that would sound like silence to any other group of readers- you know I am still here with you.
And knowing that all this will change with the natural seasonal changes, in that I fully intend to be back on a daily routine once the meat chickens are in the freezer and the hogs are sold and the milking is done – never mind the bread. Once winter with all its horribleness comes; I will blend everything back together with my new flourmill work – back into a daily doable routine taking you back on the farm with me.
Knowing all this – you – the Fellowship of the Farmy, instead of feeling left out, simply go on chatting to each other, and me, in the Lounge of Comments. Sometimes for days after a post. We have all been together for so many years that you take it all in stride, pull up a chair and have a coffee and chat. Whether I am in or not.
I love that.
It is like coming home to find your two best friends in the kitchen with the fire stoked and the kettle on, feet up – chatting until I get home.
You know the rhythm of my days.
You know the rhythm of my seasons.
I love that.
Love, love
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
34 responses to “THE LOUNGE OF COMMENTS”
Would like to buy some of the flour you sell – can’t find the site! Help
https://www.themillatjaniesfarm.com/
Here you are! What kind of baking do you do?
Yes! So absolutely true!!! Always nice to read what our Farmy Friends have to say in the blog and what is happening in their necks of the woods! And knowing that you are there ‘getting with the programs’ and juggling the farmy, job and lots of other chores as well! We know you are there Sweet Celi and will come in for a spot of tea and a chat whenever you can! And hugs to the Farmy Farmily!!!
Hi Celi, yes always here if not always commenting! 😊
I consider us a long distance neighborhood full of interesting folks who are just as likely to stop and chat with their friends closer to home, but I have to give you the credit Miss C, for leading us down this path to begin with. While I don’t always comment, I do feel at home here, have found other blogs to follow here, and picked up tips and tricks in general even though I don’t have a farm.
I would call you the glue to this large farmy family 🙂
Yes indeed!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
We consider ourselves friends by now, that’s the beauty of it! 🌹💕
That is so true. I don’t comment daily now as I am so busy myself, but I do check in daily. We ebb and flow like water in a creek that is really a ditch. 😉
Love this! Yes, just love that “We ebb and flow like water in a creek that is really a ditch. 😉” Well put!!! 🙂
Now that would be nice! Sitting round the farmy kitchen table table with friends.
I always wanted a big farm kitchen and a scrub top table …and lots of people to cook for.
Same!! My Mum had a huge kitchen at the beach with a great big pine table that she worked at. We would all stand around it making dinners or whatever. I loved that table.
In fact when I finally build myself a dwelling just for me . it will be a kitchen. Just a really big kitchen. Like the island restaurants in Greece.
My parents had a fantastic kitchen with table, but they ruined it by modernising/partitioning it with cupboards and work surface in the middle. The table got pushed into a booth. Neither of them could cook, so I don’t think they got the dynamic.
Yes! You just can’t beat having a big, old pine harvest table in the centre of the kitchen – its surface polished by time and marked with decades of experience… Always something going on there (but most especially this time of year: )
As always your post today perfectly summed things up. We all look forward to your posts, miss them when less frequent
and hope all is well. Delighted when we have a catch up from you and take great pleasure when we read the Lounge of
Comments. Thank you Celi and everyone.
I am such a sap. This has actually made me go a bit teary. It’s true! We are all friends! I feel that, and I love it too. But I have to say, THANKS TO YOU, this is the case. You have made this thing and nurtured it come hell or high water (sometimes both!) and you have introduced us and given us a marvelous reason to be here.
Good evening, c. All though I don’t comment as often as I used to, I do still read your posts with great interest, and follow the ebb and flow of your daily progresses. xx
You’re one of the first sites I followed when I first started blogging six years ago, and you’ll be the last I stop reading if God forbid I ever stop. Some friends are close at hand, others are long distance but friends nonetheless and their loss would be deeply felt. Dropping into the Lounge of Comments with my morning cup of coffee is part of my daily ritual, and if there’s no new post from you, I go back to the latest one and see who’s chatting about what. A daily post from you is lovely, but while you’re busy, an indulgence for us and extra pressure for you that you don’t need. Get those chooks and piggies fat, sort your schedule, and then – if you feel like it – we’ll be delighted to have our Daily Dose of Celi back again.
Kate, although I don’t always comment, I always love reading what you have to say, hailing from Australia! Your comments and recollections are always interesting and fun!!! 🙂
That’s so kind of you! But then that’s pretty typical of the good people Celi has gathered around the Farmy and its doings…
Love the way you said that. It does feel like a community here.💕
So many familiar faces and likeminded voices here… I learn so much. If I read or comment early, I often pop back to see what everyone else has had to say.
I liked the flour and I will order it when I get back from my trip.
Yes I don’t always comment either, but read every day. Sometimes I make a comment or ask a question and then forget to go back later in the day to see if there’s been an answer. Then I go back and back trying to find the day I said whatever I said.
Of course, I’m in love with the creatures, the dogs, the cats, the pigs, the cows, the ducks–especially the ones with the poofs on top. But who could not absolutely go goosebumps at the photo of today’s post, just for an example. And let’s not forget the videos, especially FreeBee and darling Jude on Instagram.
We’ll stick around! And as someone above said, “I learn so much!” Truly, we do.
While I have never commented in the 3+ years that I have been a member, I too feel a part of it the farmy and am a silent supporter. Silent no more, I guess. Thanks Celi for all you do!
And thank you for joining the conversation! Three years! That is great