It was a wild looking storm yesterday with significant winds and quite the chill but after a few hours, the temperature rose again, it eased off and the farm was left a gray sloppy mess.
I still love snow though!
If you would like to watch the snow falling go HERE.
I loaded one of the bobbies into the stock trailer to go you-know-where this morning.
John does the driving and they have already left.
The cow is a healthy shiny animal and will feed seven households for the winter. I said, thank you. I always do.
It is ok to feel a little sad to see them go. But like I say to everyone – this is a farm not a zoo. Feeding good people good food is the objective of the exercise after all.
Today will be ordinary normal farm chores. How nice is that?.
Though it will be a mucky muddy day, we wrestle back above freezing, and I have holes in my gumboots – (but that’s ok – I have lined that boot with a plastic bag). I will get another pair of red-bands when I go to NZ in March. I need a pair for gardening in Melbourne too! A gardening person needs a pair of gumboots in every country. We do not want soil going from one place to be carried into another.
Plus they take up half my little suitcase.
Avoiding cross contamination can get expensive but there you are – it is important.
Have a lovely day.
It is Friday here. These Fridays seem to be coming thick and fast.
Take care and Talk soon.
And remember: be kind. Kindness is the secret sauce.
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
12 responses to “All Bark and No Bite”
I will add my goodbye and thank you to the Bobbie as well. For me, harder to know this one has moved on- more than the Charlottes for sure. Perhaps because of the last lovely walkabout on Sunday… In happier and definitely brighter news- I have a bright yellow pair of garden boots. A bit silly perhaps but they remind me of sunshine and warm summer days 🙂
Plus you won’t lose them – being a bright and shiny yellow !
Exactly!
The wind and cold hit us in Southern Illinois yesterday too. There were flurries but no accumulation. Lovely that you say goodbye and thank you. I always did that as a child on my grandparents farm and I’m glad I learned that lesson early.
Nice to have a ‘normal’ day once in a while )
I drove accross Bodmin Moor and then Dartmoor today – there was snow for about 50 miles in the south and some of it on the motorway!
They might arrest you if you took farm boots into Australia. I have experienced the disinfectant spray when the plane lands. I don’t know if they still do that…
they don’t do the spray anymore but I remember it! I would never take any footwear from here to aus or NZ – I have footwear just for travel that is never worn on the farm. Plus shoes there too. Always have. They are fastidious about it in customs.
I’ve seen people taken off Greyhound buses in Australia, for trying to take fruit across state lines, in spite of very serious warnings.
Lucky my daughter is a police officer. She will keep me in the straight and narrow. 😀
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Seeing snow is very nostalgic. A friend who lives in western Queensland sent me a photo the other day. They’d had a thunderstorm with hail. Her back yard looked as if it had received a light dusting of snow. Meanwhile, the temperature was in the low 30s Celsius! The wet season is coming here. I need to fetch out and shake out my gumboots (spiders).
Kindness sure is the secret sauce. 😊