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”
. . . and I go back to when Sheila and Charlotte were babies, you had grapevines for wine and bees for honey . . . methinks one matter I have always appreciated the most is the absence of what a dear friend of yours and a mentor of mine once termed ‘generic’ comments, Readers from all backgrounds, lifestyles and -places of abode feel free to put forward their real thoughts, thus sharing, informing and learning across that kitchen table of yours. It’s a very comforting place to be for as long as any of us can manage . . . thank you for keeping it going . . .
I only comment very infrequently, but I read every post that comes, and all the comments. C, just wondering if you have thought about adding a button which sends you a notification of new comments, or replies to a comment? I have seen it on some other blogs. I like to go back and check older posts, but sometimes it would be nice to know which one people were chatting at! I love your blog and your sustainable way of farming 🙂
I come and read every day, don’t always comment. Many times someone else has already said what I was thinking. This is truly a community, a worldwide one and a very special one which I treasure and for which I am very grateful. Thank you Celi.
The kitchen, over the years and kitchens it seems that those are the places where the really important conversations were had and are still being had. The huge old kitchen in the big old Victorian house we lived in when I was a kid where everyone ended up when they came to visit, as they did in all the other kitchens in the houses I’ve lived in. The kitchen was and is where the news of births, marriages, deaths, and everything else seem to be delivered. The place where the talk can be ordinary or very profound. I think a house with a huge central kitchen, with a good big and sturdy table and lots of chairs, plenty of mugs and generally a place to just be who we are is a good dream and hopeful future reality.
My kitchen presently is a place of counsel to someone in need of some simple homey advice, caring and compassion. I think that a function maybe more important than the food prepared in it, as comforting place, the heart of the home.
Yes!
I love a big table in a kitchen the most!
These little modern kitchens totally miss the point!
This is such a lovely post. You are truly a deeply kind and creative person. I miss the more frequent posts, but I am always amazed by what you are thinking about and accomplishing – mind boggling and so inspiring. And I love reading so many of the supportive, friendly comments from your regulars in the Lounge! I haven’t commented much in a while, but I too read every most and marvel at what you are thinking about and accomplishing. I thank you so very much!
I’m just getting to my computer after a long day of chores outdoors. The summer months of work have me begging for a good rain or cold to get indoor work done. The weather never stops you from your farm chores or your job now. Just so you know, I’m reading between the lines here. But keeping quite silent. I don’t know how you keep up your pace. I could do that years ago but now, not happening. Keep taking care of yourself so you can build that kitchen with a bed. 😉 Me, I only have a kitchen because it came with the house. 😉
Yes, I am still here too. Laura
I’m so glad you’ve brought us all together, Celi! Thank you: )
Only too glad to help keep wood in the bin and the fire stoked – nothing worse than coming home to a cold hearth and home!