It was a wet and cool rainy night last night. I love the rain on my tin roof.
Perfect weather to sleep the night away with all the doors and windows open.
The Spring Peepers were singing all night long. I collected a vid sound recording of them for our TKG Take Ten. Join HERE and upgrade to join The Tenners if you want to lean on the gate and listen with me five evenings a week. It is super cheap, you can unsubscribe in seconds and the funds go to feed the rescue pigs (plus Tima of course!). Plus it is a whole new dimension of farm life; being able to hear it.
You will hear the peepers tonight unless the chicks turn up this morning and jump the queue! Hopefully the chicks are alive and well and doing a lot of peeping themselves!
Yesterday we worked hard on cleaning out the first piglet pen in the hopes that R’s friend will find some piglets at the auction. Hopefully this will happen on Thursday. So there’s a sense of urgency to that job. Then the tractor got another flat tyre. So we had to pile all the dusty old straw outside to wait for the tractor to be fixed so we could haul it off to the compost heap today and I HATE double handling but – ah well.
The calves are out into their first grass, just into the yards. Not in the big fields yet.
These two big cows are so happy out in the long grass I barely see them.
But once the big cows do arrive up at the barn (their water trough is up there) I will lock them into the yards with the three calves for the day as stage three of bonding into a herd.
Then off they will ALL go into the fields. Which means, to check them, I will have to walk out into that long grass every day and you know how that will go. I get hives just feeding out hay let alone walking in the long grass.
Above is why Tima is spending all her days under the mulberry trees. Hoovering up the berries. I am eating them too, every day with yoghurt. Delicious.
Today is dawning calm and beautiful: a morning noisy with frogs and wild birds. There is still a little cloud about and maybe a shower or two but I think the rain is mostly over.
So the hay making will proceed in earnest. Oh yay!🥺.
Have a gorgeous day!
Celi
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8 responses to “Frogs peeping – all night long!”
All the creatures look happy. Love hearing the peepers.
They are so loud and comforting.
Frogs at night bring back so many memories of summers at the lake. Five cows in the field soon. Doesn’t John have a drone? Or someone nearby? You could send that up instead of walking into the fields to check on them. Avoid getting all swollen up and itchy 🙂
I had frogs all night a few times in Spring, while they were laying spawn in the pond. That cat really loves the farmy 😉
That Cat!!
Celi – your photos are so compelling. I love how each of them tell a story on their own – and then – more is added – sometimes even a totally different topic – while we read your update. I second the observation that your cat is VERY happy on location! Good luck with the chicks!
The chicks arrived and they are great! A bunch of different breeds!
I love night-time frogsong, except when they sit in the gutter downpipes and tune up. Our frogs are very baritone, and amplified by the pipes, it can get deafening.