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  • May 7, 2012

    Love at First Sight. Kupa, The Romantic Peacock !

    On our return from the Bantam Swap, I placed the cage, with Kupa’s surprise, into the still empty turkey enclosure and left the cage door open while closing the pen door.  This was so Kupa could see but not touch for a wee while. I had no idea how peacocks behave with strangers.  Kupa was…

  • May 6, 2012

    Queenie is sent to Coventry for Picking Fights…

    ..With Pigs. Yes you read right.  Queenie Wineti my sweet little Hereford heifer was caught picking a fight with a small PIG. It started out as such a soft and gentle misty day. The animals all slept in. The peacock added his new found calls to the usual barnyard noises. I went to bed with…

  • May 5, 2012

    Local food love and a few pages to visit.

    Look who came to visit the Kitchen’s Garden.  Milkweed is a protected weed in our gardens but it is not flowering yet Miss Monarch. You will have to settle for salvia. Today being Saturday, I would like to introduce to a few new blogs.  Actually I have quite a long list of exciting new blogs…

  • May 4, 2012

    Growing Good Grass in Spring Storms

    Yesterday morning, after doing the chores and various jobs around the farmy, Big Dog, TonTon, Mary’s Cat and I went for our usual early morning walk through the long grass down by the creek which is now a ditch, and along the fences, checking the boundaries,   and out into the new fields. To grow…

  • May 3, 2012

    Don’t you know it is rude to Stare!

    Yesterday the bees were  out.  The two remaining hives seem to be doing very well. When my help is home on the weekend we will look inside their hives and do a health check.  Kupa was caught going about his ablutions.  Vigorously. He has reminded me that I promised to go to the Bantam Swap…

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