You know how dogs race toward the approaching car with unbridled excitement!? Meeting you at the opening door with wide mouths, and wagging tails.
Well, add a pig then you have the usual Farmy greeting.
Wai always hangs back a little not liking the jostle of the great unwashed.
Look a little further to see Quacker and Mr Flowers rushing over and your ‘ .. yes, yes .. welcome home – but did you happen to bring a bucket from the restaurant?‘, .. is complete.
And for the record the UPS driver gets the same welcome! She always has treats in her cab.
FreeBee
Disguised as a pile of straw.
This calf has Reindeer Ears.
When he was little he got his tag caught and ripped it right out of his ear. As he has grown his ear has become his defining characteristic. He is called The One with the Ear. No more explanation needed.
The Old Barn
I do a little housekeeping in here every day to try to bring it back up to par. I can’t spend anything on it. Just below grease.
The White Chickens
One of these things is not like the Other! 🎶
I have started collecting huge bags of discarded fall leaves from town. I do this every year. These go into the dormant gardens or into the hen house. I gave the white chickens a bag full and they climbed into the pile and settled down for an afternoon nap.
I also leave a few closed bags of leaves to compost in the bags over the winter – I pop the bags in the tractor shed and forget them – they are great for the garden in the spring or as an additive to the compost pile.
I never remove leaves from beneath a tree out here. As well as nutrients they are great for protecting the tree roots from wild temperature swings. (I suspect we may have a few of those this winter).
Have a wonderful day!
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
31 responses to “The Delicious Welcome from Dogs (and Pigs)!”
We have a large border hedge in the garden under which l leave the leaves when they fall in Autumn for nutrients and wild life, though l must say l also have a covering of leaves all over the garden every time we have a high wind! The housekeeping on your barn is endless, 👏. It gives us followers great atmospheric pictures throughout the year🤭 and of course wonderful sleeping compartments for the great and small.
That’s right Andy! I forgot about pikes of leaves being sleeping cover for toads and the like! Thank you!
What a fantastic welcome! Even Ton Ton still does it and (of course) Tima is first 😉
Tima has no boundaries!!
Ha ha ha!
It’s always wonderful to be welcomed home! And the bigger the welcoming party, the better!!! 🙂
Just imagine if Big Jude joined in! Now that would be a welcome!!
Those two big pigs are too adorable! Your pics make me feel like jumping into the straw and snuggling in deep with them!
What a wonderful greeting your animals give you. It must make you so happy to be home. We rarely go out for dinner. But when we do, we are greeted at the door by the two pups as if we’d been away for weeks! And they always check for doggie bags, which we usually have.
It’s all about the doggie bags! 🤭
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Great!
Which country are you located
The Midwest USA! If you read the about section all will be revealed.!
On a smaller scale, I have been raking leaves from the roof of my house and using them to fill depressions from erosion and run-off from higher ground. I’m also using some leaves for chicken bedding. You are right. My two chickens love the warmth and bugs found in fallen leaves.
The leaves are so versatile. Quacker loves pushing his face through them too – inhaling all those microscopic insects!
I always love checking in with you. Our Animals are the BEST, aren’t they.
Have a beautiful day.
Jo
Yes they are!
Smiles, chuckles & grins. Great start to my day. Thanks!
It’s all about the food isn’t it? Tima appears to be set on simply climbing in and living in the car as long as someone feeds her.
I have often thought it’s might live to drive around in the car. However she really has no manners and imagine the look on Boos Face if he had to share the back seat with a pig!!
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It’s a good life you have and what a welcome:)
Oh gosh! All those leaves. It seems I have been raking for a month of Sundays already and there are still places that need some neatening up. I shred mine with the lawn mower and collect most for the compost bins and the rest go into the flower beds. Takes more time that way but does work. I also have a huge pine tree with thousands of needles that need to be raked—-harder work with those but they make wonderful mulch for pathways and underneath shrubs.
Where I’m staying now (small town in north central Indiana the people rake or blow their leaves to the edge of the street and the town sends out a big vacuum truck to suck them up and take them away. The driver doesn’t even have to get out of the truck to work the vacuum tube (it’s about a foot across). I do kind of miss the smell of burning leaves which we used to do back when I was a kid. Lots of leaves here but no effort being made to rake them, don’t think it’s something that’s going to happen, step-grandson will probably just mow them with the grass come spring. We’ve had lots of color here this year.
Love the idea of a big sucky motor hovering past! It feels to me like we have more leaves that ever this year – but I suppose that makes sense with all our trees growing so fast!
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Ah, not hard to pick out the Roo amongst the White Meat Gang, is it? (Sorry He wasn’t a She as you’d hoped!:/)
Aye, afraid with the way our Fall has been going, I’ve got to agree about your weather prognostication Celi. Don’t mind the cold, you can dress for that, but these hot cold switches mean more freeze-thaws, freezing rain and loss of our Winter Snow Blanket – that same weather that wreaked such destruction on everything last year… :/)
I do hate it when the temperatures zoom up and down then up and down again – it will be interesting to see what this winter does.