I wrote this yesterday. Gone Fishing
Yesterday
Melanie, who is working on this site, has discovered that the theme we have been using here at The Kitchens Garden dot COM is now obsolete and retired by wordpress. AHA we said in unison. This is the reason we have been having troubles. So as time permits – she has three children and a business to run plus lives in NZ – she is quietly moving us across to a more current visible theme.
You will see some changes but they will be slow.
She is updating the back end too. (Having an updated back end does not sound bad to me right at the moment)! 😂
Today we have another round of doctors appointments (not for me – I am as usual in rude health) (I love that expression ‘rude health’ – I am rude in my health) so I have hung out the Gone Fishing shingle.
And this vision center (where I am hotspotting off my phone so I can write as I wait) has a coffee bar (the coffee is awful) but I am happy to use my little reusable coffee cup.
Which is the perfect size to live in my bag.
My little sustainable busness (and website) The Sustainable Home, is struggling to get its head above water because I simply do not have the time to get back to it at this point. There are so many things that need fixing on that site. So it is lying dormant. Hopefully things settle down soon- I feel we have reached a plateau. A place for plain sailing. Fingers crossed. Touch wood etc.
We will get back to it. And I will get back to this later.
This Morning (later). Not Fishing.
And yesterday did reach a place of calm. My systems were working. The routine toddled along and I was able to actually get work done on the calendar, my writing ( a podcast for this weekend) and this site.
White Chicks
Yesterday in the rain on my break, (Our John takes over at nap time mainly so he can nap) I extended the chicks run to include more of the verandah that surrounds the shed. I have hung and leaned lots of obstacles and hiding places around the verandah in case of hawks.
Now the chick feed is out of the rain.
Then I opened the gate (within their run) to the mad kings garden – this is so overgrown that the white chicks simply disappeared under the canopy of weeds. I am not so worried about raptors in there as I am worried the chickens will simply get lost!
But there are tons of greens in there to be gobbled up and these birds are machines when it comes to greens. Plus it is fully fenced. (I hope).
Quacker
Duck.
Rain.
Happy.
Staring At Me
Boo is waiting to get on with the day.
Come On! I am Bored!
The Barn
With the additions to the chicken run Tima was allowed out of her back fields to graze in the field. And I did not get back to the farm early enough to shut her back into her field. So, after I got back from town late, I took the torch to look for her in the dark (usually I don’t use light but it was pouring and I wanted to get to the kitchen for a drink!).
Look what I found.
Wai pretended to be annoyed but I think deep down he is happy to have his old un-friend to cuddle with. Very platonically of course. The animal world is so sensible.
I must away.
Have a great day!
We have help arriving this Sunday evening so I expect to have a few mornings off caretaking next week. I am going to get super busy in the barn.
Celi
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30 responses to “Gone Fishing then Not Gone Fishing”
Those chicks have grown again!
Dear little Quacker and pigs. Wai has been worn down again.
I think he feels the warmth and says – oh what the hell!
…and Tima’s so brave that she doesn’t care!
True that!!
Yep, as Mad says, Wai has yet again been worn down! 🙂 And Tima’s warmth certainly helps! I do see them spending the winter nights together, though it may be grumpily!!!
Thank goodness – or I would have two cold pigs. I am not sure Wai would survive without Tima as a hot water bottle!
So many positive updates here!
When all is said and done and fixed I vote that we give Melanie an award of some sort for all her hard work! What a lovely person she is to take this on, and if you read this Melanie I would say a big thank you 🙂 We won’t be hearing that the white chickens are inside the house soon will we? That might be awkward indeed. Please tell Boo he is a beautiful boy and his full on pose is lovely, and as for Tima and Wai…left to their own devices they do find a way don’t they.
The white chickens are all in their own house out of the rain! And I have to get in and clean that out today. It will be a mucky job. Just imagine that lot inside clamoring for TonTons bed!
When I click the button it goes to an error page. Today I couldn’t click anywhere to get into the post.
Sandra C.
I am glad you found the comments though! Maybe refresh your page? It might be hung up.
Pretty much IN LOVE with that coffee mug. 🧡
Right? Pottery for the Planet.
I have not found a USA equivalent- YET!
Thanks! I’ll make a note of it. That’s not surprising lovely.
Good morning Cecil. Just a short question this AM. Why do so many of your chicks look like “bald bird butt chicks”? No offense made here…just wondering’. hahah…..
Jo
Oh yes. A great question. These birds are meat birds and are growing faster than their feathers. The roosters are growing even faster and I think they are the ones with bald bottoms. Not terribly pretty!
Bald bottoms! You’re right! Not a pretty sight! But what IS a pretty sight–that Boo! Especially the first. Such clarity in that photo. I am so lucky to have a desktop computer and I get him BIG. Another lovely sight–the two pigs cozily sleeping.
He is such a funny boy. Quite determined that he can beam me messages through his eyes.
We awoke today in far away New Zealand to a new Spring day and a new Prime Minister in waiting. Let’s hope all parliamentarians can reach an accommodation as have Wai and Tima. But personally, I would not want to share my space with a Kunekune. Well done Wai for using this other big pig for warmth.
Oh – I need to read the news and see what’s what.
I like the reusable coffee cup. We all have these here and rarely do you see coffee being purchased and taken away in anything else. I have four or five so it depends on which one I pick up on the way out.
I love the ceramic ones. I have never liked drinking coffee out of plastic. It tastes funny.
Me too. I have only ceramic reusable coffee cups..
Glad to hear you will be gaining a bit more normality back in your life. Every winter that sensible grumpy pig buries the hatchet to his own advantage, clever. Love from sunny Italy.
Sunny Italy!! Now I am even more envious!
Meat birds… they really are growth monsters, aren’t they? Everything sacrificed to the chub. How much longer till you harvest them? Sensible precautions to give them cover from aerial predators, though. Why raise them for so long just to feed the raptors… Personally, I’m seriously considering camouflage netting over the chook yard to keep the bin chickens (sacred ibis) out. They steal the food, overturn dishes, crap all over everything and intimidate the chooks, but we seem to be ‘blessed’ with an infestation of them this year…
Sacred Ibis? I need to look them up. These do not go in until December 05 – so they have 6 weeks to go. I am aiming for big fat chooks this year. Which is why I am growing them slowly/
Natives here, and dreadful scavengers. In cities in Queensland, they’ll rummage through bins and spread rubbish everywhere, hence the name…
How interesting that WordPress themes become obsolete and thus un or less workable… I’ll check mine. I need to do a post soon or the whole point of me blogging will become obsolete!
It’s funny how I depend on my blog people. Not talking to you lot is a miserable thought.
Wonderful photos of that handsome Boo! Looking forward to seeing the new theme 😊