Down at the Farm: Eggs, milk, angels and stars ...

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Eggs, milk, angels and stars ...

Thursday morning was beautiful...

It was grey, cool and the finest most gentle mist of spray fell from the sky for a good part of the morning. So fine and so gentle and the day was kissed with the same mood.

Five little angels enjoyed the farm in this.

We all found an egg ...

... and in the excitement of it all, Milana started talking with her hands in full flight and ... ... oops five eggs became four plus a big splat!

We also found stars ... much to Farrah and Willow's delight ...

We also found a mirror ... up on a post near the office is a round convex mirror for seeing round corners, to help when your barrow is loaded with Hay and the like and you need to know who's round the corner.

This was fascinating, just standing and looking at ourselves in it ...

Cow milking time and Ava was amazing. She is such a gentle little girl and at the same time, shows this quiet strength and braveness for finding out about things. Nothing is too big to overcome for her own learning and curiosity ... her maturity in this for such a tot was alight for all the world to see ...

Ava sat on the milking stook for ages.

She was mesmerized by the milk coming out of the cow's teat and holding a very long conversation with Beccy the farmer about it all. She had her little head down almost underneath the cow to see what was going on and was very proud of her own efforts to draw milk ... Anita was on the other side of the cow with a strong flow of milk happening. Ava would give a tweak, smile, pop her head down to see the flow Anita had happening, get up walk round the back of the cow to see who was making it happen and how they were doing it.

She'd then come back to her stool, try again, chat more with Beccy ... and it wasn't until Ava herself was satisfied with all this that she let herself finish and come back to me.