The Kitchen's Garden

March 28, 2013

Muffins and Mad Dogs

My friends the young students, and I made fruit and vege muffins yesterday. Which gave us plenty of energy for outdoor pursuits. I found this recipe somewhere ages ago and delve into it off and on, using whatever is in the house (that recipe should read one and a half cups of flour) I…

March 27, 2013

The receding snow line

Sorry had to say it – because the snow is receding as slowly as an old man’s hair to reveal a bald man’s pate. A moonscape. Beige with a hint of sepia is still the colour of the day. John is in Missouri, where they have green grass under their snow by the…

March 26, 2013

Comparing bellies

Piles of snow. Wonderful. All day yesterday it resolutely melted into the fields. Good snow. Of course now I am watching Charlotte like a hawk for any signs of pregnancy. Which belly do you think is the pregnant one. Charlotte is just over four weeks pregnant now. Maybe it is a little too early…

March 25, 2013

Can pigs get morning sickness?

Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering. Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect. I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it…

March 24, 2013

We’re Back!!

Well we are back then. All well on the farmy and I am learning to type on a smaller keyboard. Apparently I am all thumbs! My big old laptop decided it had come to the end of the line. Just at springtime when our cash reserves are low aand with no growth in the fields…