The Kitchen's Garden

February 2, 2014

Peahen on the Barn

We had about three inches of snow yesterday, maybe more it is hard to judge. Then we had ice rain down on it, then it snowed again, then ice rained down on that. Then it got warm enough for the tops of the snow to melt a little, then it froze again. So by late…

February 1, 2014

The snow stood still in the air.. thinking its little think

The wind died down yesterday. I don’t care how it died frankly, as long as it was gone. We all crept up out from behind our shelters, sniffing the air. The snow gently falling, in no hurry to go anywhere. Did you see Mama, she seldom comes out into the field nowadays. Preferring to stick…

January 31, 2014

Guess who has come home!

I got up before dawn yesterday morning, after a night fretting about Sheila and decided to bring her home. That is that, I thought. Bad weather was coming again. She was not well. I told the nice young fella that I was worried about the limping and her wound and I might come and take…

January 30, 2014

How do you open a door?

I have always wondered this. How do you open a door? Do you step up turn the doorknob, push the door in a little, just wide enough to slip through, then shut it behind you. This is what I do in the winter. In the summer the doors are open wide all day and all…

January 29, 2014

Marmalade poses as Dennis the Menace

Marmalade, your wee puss, raised by hand since he was only a couple of weeks old, is a horror. He seldom touches the floor, preferring to zoom about the room flying from chairs to tables to couch to sideboard, leaving a frothy broken tide of disaster in his wake and trailing wild dogs and cats…