A rainy day on the farm

The clouds rolled in yesterday afternoon bringing with them lots of wonderful rain.  Our young passion fruit vines are loving the extra hydration and our grass really needed a drink.   Sadly, our greenhouse did not. The rain came down so fast at one point that it didn't even have time to drain off and it pooled on our plastic roofing.  The weight was just too much for the wood beams to hold.... so down they came.  Thankfully no one was in the system when it fell and the guys say it won't take much to get it all fixed up again.

 The rain brought out all the tree frogs which are breeding like rabbits in the pools of our aquaculture system.  From the sounds of them there must be an easy thousand out there.  I spent a long night in my sewing room working on aprons and quilts and listened to their loud calls until 4am when I finally decided at least a little sleep was needed.

Although, a farm girls job is never done... just before heading to bed I was called to feeding duty by a small gray kitten.   Sake, one of our farm cats, had a litter of 4 kittens on April 21st.  Sadly we lost two of them early on and we are doing everything we can to help the remaining two to gain weight and stay healthy.   Sake is learning the ropes of motherhood but it seems as though she is only producing milk from one nipple so the two little kittens are always fighting over who gets to eat.  Over the past few days we have noticed that one gets to eat much more often than the other so we have started bottle feeding the weaker one to help keep her weight up.  So, after a early morning feeding my head finally hit the pillow shortly after 5.

The thunder rolled back in around 7 and after laying awake listening to it for nearly an hour I decided that two hours of sleep was more than enough.   Another beautiful rainy day on the farm,  the kind of day I would love to spend every second of in my sewing room!

Well its time to plan our the week.  We are very excited because we will be able to candle our heritage turkey eggs this week.    More from the farm soon.