Another Reason To Walk Down The Back
Don’t just sit there – get up and walk!
I know right ? (wriggles in chair and sits up straighter) – our bodies were not designed for a sedentary existence. When I was working with the online tutoring company I spent way too long sitting and I ached! My whole body went out in protest to all the sitting around. Now that I am active again I feel so much better, no more achy joints (or bottom).
Sitting at a desk for long periods of time is not natural.
Walking every day is mandatory on a farm. And now we have a new reason to walk all the way down the back. Follow me and Boo Boo because Ton always chooses to sleep on the verandah and wait for us to return.
Good morning Jude.
Through the gap in the fence.
Past the Fellowship Forest. Forests take a long time to you know – which is why I am adding Fellowship Bushes to help with our Carbon Co-Pay.
Past the asparagus that is so sad after last nights hard frost that I am not looking.
The Ditch that was a Creek
And over we go to the Ditch that was a Creek.
Can you see my shadow, taking a photograph of the tracks through the long grass down to the ditch. (I will get a better shot this afternoon without the shadow).
I want to know who is making those tracks and whether it is a bastard mink because you know I hate bastard minks badly enough to wear them as a hat. And they like to make their burrows along ditch banks. But then again it might be a rabbit. Nothing too big though.
So I have borrowed one of those trail cameras, and set it up down there to watch that track. And the ditch, and see what we can see. I know the coyotes walk this track when they are out checking the perimeter of their territory so maybe (I hope) we might get a shot of them one day.
Weather
Even colder this morning but the sun is out!
😒 Still cold. Maybe I hate April more than I hate May.
Here is a post from April 2020 – I was looking for weather related stuff. But got pandemic related stuff. And nothing at all about the weather. It still makes for interesting reading though. Plus I have discovered a lot of lost months. I am not sure how that happened but I am getting in touch (again) with wordpress to see why that happened and where they are.
I don’t want stuff lost.
Have a great day!
The sun is out here!
Celi
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I am off to edit it now.
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I saw this pig In this old vehicle. He is happy there. There was rock between the fence. I have these here in our area too. Anita
Hi Anita! That pig is happy as a clam! And that rock is just not going anywhere so I just walk around it! Have a great day!
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Wonderful photos and great advice. You made me sit up straighter when reading your post! Have a great week- hope it
gets warmer! xoxo
I know! I need to have some kind of bell that says – Sit Up, Get Up! I can go so deep when I write hours can pass without me noticing! Then all I can feel in a numb bottom.
Everything looks so Green!
Right? The green is coming and it is balm to my wintry spirits! How do your trees look?
I’m still in AZ, won’t be home until next week. I hope the snow will be gone by then. Your Green will have to suffice till then.
That snow better be gone by the !
I hope it’s coyotes and not mink – hopefully the scent of Boo will warn whatever it is off.
I had thought of that. Maybe I should put the camera where Boo does not walk – I might after we find out who is knocking that grass down. I think it may not be a mink because of all the grass knocked down like that – may be a rabbit. Minks stay very close to the ground. Bastards.
Yes, I think it’s bigger than a mink. Do you get many wild rabbits? My farmer is having trouble at present with rabbits eating the new vegetable shoots.
Rabbits! How nasty for him. We have never had a problem with rabbits when we had vast numbers of barn cats and nubile dogs. Lately though I am seeing more rabbits than before. And though Ton does not even notice now – he does not even hear thunder- Boo will see a rabbit then look to me for permission to chase it. I can only imagine that training him to be gentle with Nelson has done this. I say yes chase it- and of course it is long gone by then.
So – yes. We are getting rabbits.
I think rabbits go in cycles. As I’m sure you know, they have biblical pagues of them in Australia and New Zealand is commited to eradicating them. They are not even native to the UK, though there are several species which are indigenous to North America.
Boo has become such a good dog …and poor Ton Ton is now the old dog.
Where are they native to? I never even thought about that.
Most definitely Ispania, land of rabbits, which later became Hispania under the Romans and España today.
OK! aka the land with the most rabbit recipes?
Ha ha – there are a lot of them, but I don’t know if they have the most recipes. There would be some competition from France and Italy.
Good morning Celi……I do like checking in with you each day…..thanks for this. Living in AZ where it is already 94 degrees on April 24th makes one wish for colder weather like yours. Oh…..I so hate the heat!
Have a beautiful day.
Jo
Morning Jo, I don’t do well in the heat either – 94 is way too hot for me already!! Are your nights a bit cooler? c
Here is Chapter Two from Letters To My Mother.
https://ceciliaatthekitchensgarden.substack.com/p/chapter-two-looking-down-from-the?sd=pf
Terrifying and exhilarating and so good for my writing to be able to write like this at last. But it had to be the right time – which I guess is now – every Monday! Love. Love.
Lovely farm walk today, thank you. Lovely shot of Jude. Long time since we’ve heard about the ditch that was a creek! Boo is amazing waiting for your permission to chase a rabbit. Love to Nelson💕
Nelson seems to be happy in her new house but you never know with a rabbit!
Ton-ton is old now, isn’t he? I feel for him. And also, if I recall, you said he’s deaf–I practically am too. So, please, don’t be too hard on him. He’s earned his rest.
He gets his rest – but I do have to make him get up and walk about with me every day or his body will not thank him.
Funny, as I read this I’m on my daily walk . I was tired when I got home after working and commuting and almost went straight to the couch, it’s remind myself how much better I always feel after my walk, and here I am!
I am the same – if I don’t have that good walk I feel like I have nothing with my life all day!
I like walking in the back of our place. So does my little dog. So I understand fully.
Hoping I get some photos like you do on the game camera but I don’t know – nothing so far.
Set them animal height. If you get them too high you will only get tall things. Good Luck!!!
Yes – that is what i thought – the camera is at knee height – maybe lower?
I have one ankle high and one knee high. Any higher you get Deer and People (although that is okay also), but you miss the little creatures. Look for trails and put the camera there.
Ok – got it! I will place it lower. Thank you!
So what sort of bushes are you considering down in the forest? Or are they going anywhere that needs a bush?
It depends on my strikes this spring. I just grow bushes from my own bushes so hydrangea, lilac, all those others here – I do have a guy who grows natives to this area and sometimes he shoots a few my way if they have not sold.
We love to walk and are back in to it again now the weather has cooled off… there are still snakes around yet but not as many and they are slower.
Oh yikes – snakes – I have never lived with them so they make me feel a mite uncomfortable