Category: Photography
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“Have you seen my wives?” says The Duke.
Working in the barn yesterday I heard a rustling and looked out the door. This is what I saw. “Kupa.” I said. “How are you darling?” “Have you seen Tui or Pania?” he asked, in his polite peacock voice. “I have lost my wives.” “Oh, honey.” I said. “I think they are way out…
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“Have you seen my wives?” says The Duke.
Working in the barn yesterday I heard a rustling and looked out the door. This is what I saw. “Kupa.” I said. “How are you darling?” “Have you seen Tui or Pania?” he asked, in his polite peacock voice. “I have lost my wives.” “Oh, honey.” I said. “I think they are way out…
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The swine herd gets inexplicably demoted
My photos started out well yesterday. I had this big plan for colour and light. I made a classy shot of the air hose from the pump drying out by the fire. When cold (air) hits heat (steam from hot milk) we get condensation in the lines. Which results in water in the pump (bad).…
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Frigid Sunshine
By the time we had finished milking yesterday morning and brought everything back inside it was minus 3F (-20C). I do not deal in windchills as I don’t understand the equation so I won’t tell you what the windchill was. There was hardly any wind anyway. But it was so cold that my face felt…
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Dividing up the loot
A couple of times a week the local grocery store gives The Farmy a bag of expired produce. I sit on one bucket surrounded by other empty buckets and set to work chopping and dividing up all the vegetables, potatoes and fruit. I am immediately surrounded in a rabble of watchers, outright looters and opportunists, …
The Kitchen's Garden 