The Kitchen's Garden

October 18, 2012

Rain on The Wet Skunky Dog in The Golden Leaves of Autumn

Hmm. Skunky dog on a rainy day. Not a pretty olfactory picture. Poor fellow saw the Skunk Off bottles come out and he hid under a bush, not realising that the bush was losing its leaves, and his smelly little snout and little eye could be seen peering back out at me. But Ton Ton,…

October 17, 2012

Walkabout the FARMY with the Big Animals

Day Two of the Farmy Round up. Wow. It takes two days to walkabout the farmy now. So much to see. Here is a grubby Paisley Daisy… ..with her good friend Queenie Wineti. We tried to breed daisy twice this season but both times it did not take. Then it was too late in the…

October 16, 2012

Walkabout the FARMY

I do love our walkabouts. Come along then. I shall name everyone as we go along for the newer members of the Farmy Clan. First into the barn and here is Pania and Tui, hiding out in the dimness. It was still a little windy yesterday and they do not like inclement weather. They came…

October 15, 2012

A Screaming Gale or Two ripped Through.

Yesterday the wind howled all day. Every now and then it would rise up to a biting scratching squall then drop back to a gale. It was not that cold or anything but it was furiously noisy. We forget how noisy the world gets in a wind like that. Wild. It blew my hair almost…

October 14, 2012

An exciting development

We had all these plans for yesterday. I even made a list. Silly me. Three things intervened. Firstly it rained. Hard. An inch fell. I am not complaining about that. Then the milking parlour pump spat the dummy. It did a proper job this time too. So I…