Sunsets Are Boring

I have discovered that sunsets are actually not nearly as interesting as sunrises.

I raced down the back last night at 4.15 pm when I saw that the sun was setting so I could get a video of it for TKG Take Ten and then when I looked at the little film later, there was pretty much nothing on it. The sunset did not change fast like the sunrise does.

Maybe I was a little early – I am going to try again tonight.

This one is more fun!. Yesterdays publication. Such a sweet ten minutes on the farm. If you look closely there is even a cock fight! Wednesday is Free Day so I thought of you when I posted.

Sun again this morning. Warm day again. Clothes will be hung out on the clothes-line again. the glasshouse will be happy.

No snow in the forecast – not for the next ten days anyway. It is quite simply too warm. The light is low in the sky. And once again today dawns without wind. The longest night is coming. I hope it is clear on the night of the equinox because I want to be taking pictures of the stars that night.

The stars are so bright and so close lately.

I found this on Wikipedia (below). Thank you Aunty Google.

Is it just me or do you feel closer to the earth and her rhythms when we decide to manage our lives as sustainably and waste-lessly as possible.

Not in a wild dancing in the rain kind of way but in a gentle interested kind of way. A comfortable kind of way. The difference in times of the equinox and solstice year to year interests me.

I love Boos furrowed brow in this shot as he asks for permission to evict the pig from his bed. I say, No, as usual, and he sighs.

‘Oh, Miss C,’ he says. ‘She is just so … untidy.’

I hope you have a lovely day. I can’t wait to get out into the sun then back to the writing of Part Two for my Sustainable Sunday – Letters from the kitchen’s garden farm.

A WARNING if you use winter water heaters: We just discovered that the cows old water heater was actually shorting into the water. As John leaned on a metal standard to stay upright while he smashed the ice on top of the cows water, he got a little shock like a tingling sensation running up his arm. The water heater had gone bad and was using the water as a conductor. No wonder the cows weren’t drinking much water. So just check your water heaters and make sure that you’re not shocking your animals. It was a small current, but enough of a current to stop the cows from drinking.

Lucky we found out before that led to catastrophe.

You just never know what you are going to discover next.

Have a lovely day!

Celi

PS I am so grateful when I see you joining me over in our study at SubStack. I see Substack as another room in the house that is The Kitchens Garden. Just a click away. Across the hall. The blog and the stack work really well together and are challenging my writing muscles. Which I love. I love a challenge.

And as you know I am a great fan of transparency so; the farm needs the paid subscriptions you are choosing over at Substack.

One: to be paid to write is a pleasure and so much more sustainable. A dream come true actually. I spend at least four hours (usually more) a day writing on the blog and at the stack. To be paid at last is so wonderful.

And Two: I am trying to navigate away from selling meat for the farm to survive; instead growing and teaching people about good food, becoming even more self sufficient but not selfish, writing about the farm and self sufficiency and sustainability and the old ways is a much worthier mission. So, thank you for upgrading and joining me at my desk.

Which is why every now and then I will remind our new readers (you) to join us at SubStack where Letters from The Kitchen’s Garden resides and upgrade – $5 a month. It is fun! Lots of stuff going on. This Sundays Letter is going to be a beaut.

(Letters from The Kitchen’s Garden on Substack is a much sunnier room than The Sustainable Home website which is still paused and in the closet. I will have Melanie work on it next year.) sigh.

PSS There are some great Christmas cards (thank you Wendy!) plus a few of my new TKG T-shirts; on Zazzle now. So scroll down and pop over if you’d like to do any shopping. (But only if you absolutely need a new T Shirt. You know. Sustainable Living and all).

Love ya!

C