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  • January 5, 2012

    When The Cat Won’t Play: on the Farmy

    The whole farmy has turned camera shy all of a sudden.  Yesterday afternoon TonTon and I took the camera on our rounds,  but the sun fell in behind massive clouds, the light dropped and no-one would co-operate.    TonTon hoped to see a decent Play Cat-Fight , but even Thing Two was totally lacking in…

  • January 4, 2012

    The Drink with the Unpronounceable Name

    This is going to sound really weird but stay with me. We made a drink out of milk, vodka and oranges.  It is a very old drink. Possibly Eastern European. Possibly made by a very desperate alcoholic who had nothing but vodka,  milk  and an old orange in the house. And time. But not a…

  • January 3, 2012

    How to make Raw Apple Cider Vinegar whilst pretending that this is what you wanted to make all along!

    This morning is 9F  (minus 12 C).  Clear and cruely cold.   All the animals are fed and watered and I have opened all the barn doors as the sun is shining.  A juxtapostition of the senses that I could not hang in a gallery.    It is a stunning, fiercely cold, bright and  sunny…

  • January 2, 2012

    All Dawns are Not Born Equal.

    Dawn shot. Not enough light and snow driving sideways. It stings your face that snow.  19F which is minus7.2C.   Note the MINUS as we head out the door.  I don’t like the minus.  This morning, I have discovered that if you have a sneezing fit out in the barn in that kind of cold…

  • January 1, 2012

    Blood in The Barn! Hairy can no longer Toot his own Horn!

    You know how only YESTERDAY Daisy promised not to head butt Hairy  in 2012? Well it was still 2011 yesterday. We were working in the barn unearthing the 1953 Dodge. It will be my asparagus truck for the spring, I am going to park it at the end of the track and sell my fresh…

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