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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…
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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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Walkabout the Farmy on May Day.
Ton and I had a busy productive day yesterday. I called the Swine Herd Man and apparently Sheila the Babe is only a week old, evidently pigs will also make you wait, even though you think you know when they are due, so she will be allowed to leave her Mother in a month. Waiting…
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Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy Jig
We rose at 3.15 am California time and began the pressure cooker air travel race to reach The Prairies by 6.30 pm. Travelling is all about waiting, interminable waiting, interspersed with wild spurts of frantic power walking navigating literally MILES of corridors to find yet another elusive gate. Why is it that my connecting gate…
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Mama’s Pavlova. The Secrets.
Good morning from California! It is warm here. Wonderful. And time to make our celebratory Pavlova. This is the quintessential down-under dessert. As you know I am from New Zealand and I am more than happy to claim Pavlova as a New Zealand ballerina dessert. Pavlova is easy to make. However there are four things…
The Kitchen's Garden 