The Kitchen's Garden

August 7, 2012

Mercury says hush.

My internet system has finally bowed to the inevitable. The Man in the Mercury has been watching Mars and the Moon and my internet connection has finally given up the ghost through lack of celestial attention and has been sent to his room with Camera. But my nice little internet man says I should be…

August 6, 2012

Longing for evening

Yesterday was just a little day. A nice peaceful Sunday. Milking the cow while TonTon watched from his usual place. Telling Sheila she knows that John does not like her to play in the traffic and get back in the barn right now it is time for your dinner. Watching the chickens drink the last…

August 5, 2012

Make Sun then the Hay Shines

The last of the alfalfa hay is in. The hay field was raked into windrows yesterday morning. Then the radar began to threaten rain. Radars can be very threatening. And rain is only a threat when the hay is laying all defenseless and golden on the ground. Otherwise I would say that the radar was…

August 4, 2012

Sit Sheila, Sit

Sit Sheila! Good Girl. Down Sheila. What a good girl. Charlotte, Sit. Charlotte. SIT! Thank you Sheila. Good girl, Sheila. But I was talking to Charlotte. Now Charlotte. You have to learn to sit. No, I don’t, she says. Well, you will be sent to coventry like smelly TonTon. Charlotte is bad, miss c. But…

August 3, 2012

Hairy MacLairy Babysits while Miss C Harvests Honey!

Hairy MacLairy, the long suffering ram, was left to watch the Shush Sisters yesterday. He is benevolent Uncle personified.. or ramified as the case may be. So he took them over to visit with Queenie Wineti under the tree where they could play in the muck. While I stole a couple of jars of…