Which is why country people eat early. Dinner is not the end of the day. Dinner is a break in the afternoon chores. Which is why I like to call it Tea! Though no one around here knows what I mean when I say that.
At 5.30 I usually sit down for tea. No cats or dogs are served. Then taking all the cutoffs and left overs and kitchen scraps from the day: off I go, out again, for evening chores.
Here is FreeBee enjoying his breakfast first!
Here are the night chores. (Most of the feeding out, waters and hay, etc., is done at 4pm before dinner so night chores have snacks to encourage an animal to their night quarters.
- Move piglets and turkeys out of big pig field to barn. (See the video HERE in the newsletter – the piglets RUN flat out to the barn).
- Shift cows to big field.
- Feed, water and herd white chicks into heated house and close door.
- Feed, water and herd layers into hen house and close door.
- Re-Place turkeys into barn again and wait until they are settled there. (slow learners).
- Walk dogs. (This is not a chore!).
Oh and for the record. I am an immigrant. And I do not go out hunting my neighbors cats. I do eat cows though. I hope that’s ok.
But maybe I should be careful when walking my dogs after dark. The locals have guns here. And. I am the only immigrant in these parts. And a ton of time on last nights debate that millions of people watched was spent vilifying all immigrants. We are all criminals apparently. And the population who believes such people is being wound up to hate us. Suspect us. Be afraid of us. Immigrants who speak differently. And they have guns. Anyway rant over.
Evening chores are a lovely settling time.
As opposed to night chores just before I go to bed when everyone should be settled already.
No coyotes last night. I think they have moved further along their territory. So we all slept well.
Have a lovely day!
Celi
PS – How I keep my pants up! 😅😂
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23 responses to “Dinner is Break Time”
That’s a proper farmer’s belt – they are all the rage in Cornwall!
I think the pigs (especially the little ones) live to eat, whereas turkeys have something else on their minds…
Native Americans aside, everyone else is an immigrant 😉
Kudos on the last line- so, so many ignore that fact or push it under the rug
Now I need to go back and read what my last line was!
That is true. Though the rhetoric does not reflect this. Last night we were very loudly labeled as criminals – millions of us are criminals apparently – and now we hunt the pets of our neighbours. Then eat them. Awful! So much dangerous vitriol. Which is deeply insulting.
None of this makes sense yet they lap it up.
Every country has immigration issues. This is not new either. Wars and famines and local war lords have displaced millions over the centuries. Anyway.
I am mad!
I imagine that Trump said that. Anyway, you are the Pig Lady who saves unwanted pets and strays 😉
Yes! I have my little farm out here – quite hidden away thankfully.
I don’t think anyone is going to come and throw stones at you! Local people know that you are a good kind person and one of them.
My Daddy was fond of quoting Will Rogers, the Homespun Cowboy Philosopher of the 1920s & 30s, who was a little bit Cherokee from both parents. Whenever the subject of Mayflower Descendants would come up (which was pretty often in my Ky. Bluegrass hometown back then), Daddy would offer Will Roger’s comment that when the people arrived on the Mayflower, his people were on the shore to greet them. You’re right, Mad, the Pilgrims, Spaniards & everyone of us since are all immigrants. Only the First Peoples are native Americans. You just came a little later than the folks around you, Celi. But don’t let it get you down. NZ has the same situation, though I hope not as many hypocrites there to yell & carry on about it till the cows come home.
All countries have immigration or emigration issues. Mass movements of peoples is not new. And I agree that most of us in the USA and a significant number in NZ stem from immigrants. But I object to being lumped into this MILLIONS of criminal immigrants. Someone is going to be killed. They are being killed. This rhetoric is not helping to solve the issues. It scares me. And when I am scared I bite.
On the farm, we ate our evening meal at 5:30 pm. We called it supper. There is a rhythm on the farm that has to be adhered to. I loved watching FreeBee eat breakfast. Enjoyed the jab at the debate comment. I don’t often read blogs out to hubby but I did read your comment! And as MadDog said, we are all immigrants in North America, except for the First Nations people. Your belt is perfect!
I love my belt! And actually like eating early. Going to bed on a full stomach is uncomfortable!
I know. Here it Spain many people eat at 8 or 9 pm. I just can’t do it.
Cultural differences I guess. I certainly could have a glass of wine and something light though. Am happy to stop at Tea and skip dinner altogether when I am working!
hence the baling twine! 😂
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OMG! I bet the neighbors 3 houses over heard me roaring with laughter when I read this:
“Oh and for the record. I am an immigrant. And I do not go out hunting my neighbors cats.” I adore you for writing that and for the smart way you hold up your pants!
Have you seen the cats around here? No meat on those cats! 😅
When l heard what that ranting mad man had to say on the news this morning l thought of you and reckoned you’d have something to say. As always, spot on! On a lighter note, cool belt.
I didn’t watch the debate but we spend far too much time here in Canada villifying immigrants, too. I too am an immigrant, albeit from an English speaking country. Let’s face it, the only people here on Turtle Island who are not immigrants are the Indigenous people. And we all know how the white immigrants treated them.
Glad you’re not eating the locals’ pets….)
We haven’t turned on the television for probably a year and a half. I’m not following politics either here or in the US, but I can well guess the source of the anti-immigrant ranting. If he’s going to talk about skin colour, I personally feel that orange should be banned… Back when I kept food animals more, I made myself a belt from plaited baler twine: it came in pink, orange and blue so it was a very snazzy belt. So many useful was to repurpose the stuff on a farm! I’m with you on the pleasures of evening chores: putting the chooks back in their run and later shutting them up, watering the tomatoes, pinching out shoots on the passionfruit vine, seeing if there’s beans to pick. Unlike you, I don’t have to walk thousands of steps to do all this; just as well now while i’m waiting to get my knee fixed. There’s a vegetable bake waiting to go in the oven: pumpkin grown by the neighbours, my own roasted tomatoes, zucchini, cauliflower, garlic and a generous grating of strong cheddar. From one immigrant to another, it’s people like us who made the countries we now call home. xx
Late to the chat but totally relate to your rant!! So blatantly a ruse to create a ‘them’ and ‘us’ scenario. Also … being yelled to the rafters by two men. One married to an immigrant. And the other married to a second generation immigrant. Makes you wonder what their family dinner conversations are like!
You must be a LEGAL immigrant, one who has jumped thru all hoops, has a passport and everyghing and are most welcome here. What all the furor is about is all of the ILLEGAL immigrants who have just walked across the border en mass in the last 4 years. Who knows what or who Biden has let into the country without any background checks or anything. The repercussions for all of this will go on for years.
We don’t get into the politics of it here but
Migration and immigration is changing the global population landscape. I see it in many of the countries I travel to. And the hoops we jump through are many plus they are expensive.