An Irish arrived

Colin arrived today. By bike from Olecko. He is very nice, talkative person. An artist. A vegan. He is delicate. He decided to take care of the house and cooking :) So I will have more time for outside farmworks and for my rural papers and registers... 
But what about the fruit trees??? :))) hmmm...

Planting

Yesterday I planted 10 apple trees, today 15 apple trees so altogether – 25 trees is planted. With these hardworking hands! Besides I have made lots of  apple tree seedlings and planted them into pots. I wonder if they start develop roots. There is a chance. I will see. I cannot find my ukorzeniacz, so I planted them without using ukorzeniacz. But I have chosen the best soil which I have for the seedlings, so I hope that it will cause seedlings to grow. 

Apart from this I have fed dogs and poultry, I have watered dogs and poultry. I have milked goats and changed their positions. I have cooked a dinner.

And the day is over.

Tomorrow an English is coming. He speaks fluent Polish. He may take with him his bike. Soon the Japanese should arrive as well and on the Thursday – the Englishman going from Greece. I need to provide food for all of us and plan the work front. Roughly I am prepared for this invasion of foreigners. Jeff is great with electricity and plumbing which is very needed here, Japanese is good with chainsaw so we will be able to prepare wood for winter and for fence. I don’t know in what is Colin good, but I will find out tomorrow. Or better I will look into his application form. Anyway – I think I would like Colin to help with planting trees. 

An Audiobook

I have created an online audiobook with usage of two different useful websites. It is a modern American novel. Romance. I was listening to it for a half of the day making dinner, making dessert, eating dinner, washing dishes. After dinner I lied down to rest a while and to enjoy listening to the novel. After some time I fell asleep. I slept like a stone until late. Now I woke up and started to bake bread.

Earlier during the sunny Sunday I took bath and wash my hair. I splashed them with herbal water made from camilla flowers. After the herbal splashing my hair are soft and lighter. I need to collect more camilla flowers for the winter.

I wonder if the Japanese man is coming to my farm tomorrow. He should start his journey towards my farm on the 20th of August. He knows how to use chainsaw so he would be very useful here.

Despite of troubles caused by the two lesbians from Kraków, some more people from Poland want to come to my farm. Even two gays! I don't know what to think about it. I am afraid of another problems. I need to be careful. I need here real friends and real help. I don't need her selfish tourists and unfriendly inspectors . 

One normal pair (a boy and a girl) was here before on their bikes and want to return and spend some time under their tent, so it's okay with me. They want to send me screen as a payment for free holiday stay at my farm :) I think it's great exchange. I will get the screen and they will get free stay at my farm. I need one more screen. One more screen would be useful here.

And the gays want to help me at home - do some renovation and help in housekeeping. So it looks like they have rather good intentions. Maybe I should take a risk? Maybe a bit later. I am afraid of strangers for a while. Specially homosexualists.

A Sunny Sunday

Last night I went to bed late, because I was burning wood in my Big-Big Oven and cooking food for dogs. Lots of food. I slept well, thanks to window wide open all night. No mosquito dared to bite me :) House was full of smoke from the oven. Insects hate smoke. Today water in the huge pots standing on the oven is still warm enough to wash dishes and some clothes. So I am having benefit from it. I stood up in the morning and first washed my teeth, then dishes and one blouse. I also fed dogs. Then I have eaten breakfast. All night was playing radio online – the chill out station. I think I like the music. Is really relaxing.

http://www.polskastacja.pl/webplayer/?channel=22

I have planted 10 apple trees and got sweat. I think I will take a bath.
An awesome English traveller left Greece to start his long journey to my farm. He promised to fix pipes in my house. And be my true friend :)))

A Vet Visit

The day was sunny and nice. A blond vet came to inject my dogs against rabies. Someone from the far end of Europe called me being interested in coming to my farm and taking part in my projects. I milked the goats.

Then lied down on the sunbathe bed and admired views around. It was peaceful day.

A Magic Place

Today was a very sleepy day. Even horses were yawning widely. I spent more time in bed than I had planned. I was just so sleepy... In the evening I decided to go for a walk. I left my farm and walked along the village route. 

Then I approached a deserted house – a summer house. There is bench or even two in front of it.
One of the benches is more than just a bench – it is a swing. A very comfortable swing. I sat on it and enjoyed swinging. The swing is perfect. Big, strong, well done. I only didn’t like the colour of it, but I would like to have similar thing at my yard. I love swinging :) I always have loved swinging – since childhood :)

It was pleasant to sit on the bench-swing and swing while dreaming about things... It was very relaxing. I need some relax after last stressful days. Besides a lot of work in front of me before winter. I needed to recharge my energy :) The place was perfect – peaceful and comfortable. After relaxing on the swinging bench I have returned home and emailed for a while with someone funny and nice who is coming to my place soon :)

After The Ecological control

Ufff... I am after the ecological control... I am exhausted!
The controller was nice, but very very precise!
We finished at 10 p.m.! I need to rest!

The Darkness

I went into darkness. At first I could see nothing. There was no light from the Moon or stars. Nothing. It took some time before I could see contours of the farming buildings. I went carefully along the farm inner road. After several steps I could see solar lamp next to the river. Oh, how good that I put it there! In such darkness like that one it was the only orientation point showing where passage over river was. I put it here for horses to let them see the passage at night. For their safety. I don’t want them to fall down accidentally to the stream and get hurt.

I continued my walk toward orchards. Saba – one of my dogs – was with me. I walked silently in the darkness carefully putting each step. I should make some noise and let my horses to know, that I was approaching in order to avoid being knocked over accidentally, but felt like walking in total silence. I walked like a fox :) In secret :) After around 200 metres I could sense my beloved horses. They were on the left. I couldn’t see them nor hear them, but I could sense their presence there. The warmth of their dear souls. I continued my walk towards the farm gate. When I approached it – I looked around seeing in darkness reflection of the big fishing pond in front of me and a short flash of a light. Someone was over the pond. Probably a fisherman or the owner of the pond.

I turned around and sow Saba behind me waving her tail. I touched her head and caressed her ear. We went back. After some metres I could hear a move in the orchard where I sensed before my horses. They were there. This time I made some noise, because they noticed somebody was near and they got into panic. So I spoke to them reassuring them that it was me and everything was all right. They had been sleeping already. When they heard it was me – they returned to their dreams.

I continued my walk back to the yard. Saba was there already barking in darkness as she heard steps. When I spoke to her, she stopped barking - recognising it was me. 

I went home and decided  to bake milk bread for tomorrow. So I made the mixture and put it into the oven. This time I decided to use poppy to the bread. I love poppy seeds. I took out milk from the fridge and collected cream from it. I will need it for salad and for pudding. I think I should bake a cake as well. I have so much apples ideal for the cake. I will do it tomorrow after the control. 

I have made corn oats with milk and have eaten them with taste :)

So peaceful

It’s dark outside. I have made the cheese, are still cooking the lecho for myself and food for dogs. The oven is hot, but not very hot, so it takes time. I cannot make it hotter, as there is a hole in the chimney and the oven cannot work properly with full power. I have given to the dogs and poultry the whey after making cheese. They love it. 

Outside and inside so peaceful. I am listening to the silence of my hermitage. I don’t want to spoil the silence with radio noise. I prefer this way. At least today. I just need to calm down after recent incidents. 

I have prepared vegetable salad for supper. Now I am making a hot tea and maybe I will walk a bit outside in the dark to see my horses grazing in the pasture. They love to graze at nights when grass is wet and heat is gone.

I make my herbal tea  from krwawnik which grows in front of my house :)

 It helps for menstruation pains.

Today was no heat and no irritating insects and horses grazed in the orchard during the day, but they prefer much more to do it at night. One part of the apple orchard is totally eaten from grass and  that’s great! Well done! My horses do excellent job in orchards :) I will go to hug them for a while. They are so good animals and help me to maintain the orchards in proper condition...

I am thinking maybe I should hide away what I have, what I breed – in order to stop attracting people like these two wicked women who wanted to deprive me my beloved horses... They didn’t come here as friends.
I think they came here to hurt me on purpose. I suspect it was their plan. I felt something wrong about them before they came. I could see it in their faces when they arrived – unfriendliness and eagerness to find my weak points to use them against me. I suspect they planned to do harm to me and hurt me. Maybe because jealousy?  Jealousy is a typical Polish feature. Unfortunately. Unfortunately it is too common here. It’s ugly feature. Also luck of tolerance. The women are homosexualists and they demand from others acceptance and tolerance, but they themselves are not tolerant toward others. They are full of bad intentions. I could feel it when they were here. I need to avoid that kind of people. If I change my CS profile and remove all property information – only people who like ME will be coming here. Not egoistic bitches who demand comfort and benefits and don’t care at all about me and my happiness.

Generally I feel like a hiding away. I am a sort of bored with putting on billboard all information about me. From one side it is nice – I meet interesting people thanks to my Polish blog, but from the other side I also expose myself to potential enemies, or just people who cannot stand someone achieved what I achieved and lives the way that always wanted to live.

Unfortunately all locals know already that I have got beautiful, noble horses. Some of them want my horses and they will use all possible excuse to get to them. I need to be very careful now. They are waiting for each mistake of mine and are ready to attack me and hurt me. Destroy my happiness. Take away my horses from me. They also want my farm, so they will do everything to ruin my farm in order to get it. I need to be prepared for that too and defend myself and my property and breed. 

A Grey Day

Today grey day. Nothing spectacular happened. In the morning I went to milk the goats and cut some more branches and bushes. Now I am cooking lecho, food for dogs and making white cheese for myself.
Outside is peaceful. My head is full of thoughts. I am cooking and think in the same time about various things.
I am deeply in thoughts I would say :)

Tomorrow ecological control. I should prepare all needed documents for tomorrow, but first need to finish the cooking. I was sleepy today and spent some time in bed. Now it’s already evening and I have to do the cooking first. I hope I will have enough time to find all needed documents tomorrow before the control...

I have prepared some of them already, still need to find and complete more...

I have a feeling that in the nearest future nothing special will happen. I mean no love :) Maybe better. I need a peace of mind and heart now. Too many things to care for. I need to focus on them...

Lubię Zapach Koni i Przytulić Się Do Nich

Po obiedzie odpoczęłam trochę, zrobiłam budyń i zalałam płatki mleczkiem w ramach słodkiego deseru, którym się uraczyłam chętnie. Dałam radę jeszcze przejść się do sadu. Tam konie mnie przyjaźnie
przywitały i pieszczotliwie smyrgały po plecach, zaczepnie skubały rękawy mojej kangurki. Milusie są. Prawdziwa słodycz. Kochane istoty. I tak ładnie pachną. Lubię zapach koni i przytulić się do nich. O, jaki zgrabny rym się ułożył :)

Przeszłam się po sadzie, wycięłam następną partię samosiejek. Wyrwałam kilkanaście potężnych chwastów które konie nie lubią jeść, a które świetnie rosną na oborniku osiągając rozmiary małych drzewek. Ten obornik w sadzie to wywiozłam taczkami na jesieni i podsypałam nim drzewka. Na nim się chętnie plewią te wielkie chwaściory. Wyrwanymi chwastami wyściółkowałam redliny w rzędach drzewek. Kolejne samosiejki wycinałam aż zrobiło się ciemno. Jest 21.00. Jestem na nogach od 6.00 rano, czyli... jakieś 14 godzin zasuwam. Tak się pracuje na roli!

A bźdźiągwy z miasta co tu ledwo dwa dni po 5 godzin pomagały gałęzie wycinać - mało się nie posrały z przepracowania :))) I w dodatku postanowiły się zemścić za ich wielce potężny trud napuszczając na mnie co się da... :)) Gdy ktoś nigdy na wsi nie pracował, nie ma bladego pojęcia ile to pracy jest codziennie na gospodarstwie: świątek - piątek, od świtu do nocy, a czasem i w nocy, gdy się klacz źrebi lub krowa cieli...

Zanim kogokolwiek tutaj zaproszę strzelę mu potrójnego psychologicznego rentgena by mieć pewność, że mi podobnego numeru  nie wywinie - takiego jaki te żałosne lesby wywinęły.

Japończyk dostał już formularz do wypełnienia, na podstawie którego robię wstępną analizę, czy się człowiek nadaje na wieś. Czekam aż mi odeśle. Chociaż Japończycy z reguły są pracowici i żadnej pracy się nie boją. Ten coś tam nawet potrafi - podobno potrafi obsługiwać piłę spalinową. Mam nadzieję, że wytrzyma tu chociaż z dwa tygodnie bez ekscesów. Był już wcześniej w surowych, polowych warunkach, więc mój dom nie powinien być mu straszny. Myślę, że on da radę, ale to się okaże gdy tu dotrze.

A Cloudy Farming Day

Today no Sun. I went to the goat meadow to milk the goats. The young mares went after me all way long until the electric fence which separates horse meadow from goat’s meadow. Their mum didn’t notice when we all disappeared in wood and got into panic. She started to gallop around the horse meadow and scream. I called her and she stopped, looked at me and accompanying me mares and became calm. She stood still. She didn’t come after us, as her leader’s honour didn’t allow her to show she is weak. She is the mum and the young mares should respect her and follow her when she calls them. So she stood in the horse meadow and patiently waited for her daughters to come. The young mares didn’t care much about their mum in this moment, as they were curious to see where I was going and they wanted to follow me further, but electric fence was on and they felt the current running in it and escaped, but returned after a while, tried it again and again escaped this time for good. Then they joined their mum. 

I milked the goats. This time they were not so kicking. In fact, two of them were very easy going and the third one which has malicious character – after looking at me milking the other goat got jealous and missed milking as well, so when I approached her – she was relatively calm as well. I brought beautiful milk home and poured through a dense silk. Then I brought it to the basement to cool it down. I will save the milk for my muesli treat.

I love muesli!

I am still agitated after what those two Lesbians did to me. I have so much work here and yet they added some extra problems and work to me! I am really angry.

I went yesterday to Olecko to pay bills and send an important letter. Unfortunately the post office was one hour earlier closed. I decided to benefit from the fact that I was already in the town and made some shopping. I have got food for circa about one month. My rucksack was bloody heavy. It was incredibly hard to drive my bike with this burden on my back. I returned at home after 9 p.m. I was really exhausted, but happy to have with me so much food and my beloved muesli among it :) I made myself royal supper – hot frankfurters, mustard, tomatoes with dill, milk bread and herbal hot tea. It was good. After the supper I fell down into bed and fell asleep fast.

In the morning I had similar breakfast, but I couldn’t wait until I have fresh milk and opportunity to make muesli with goat milk. After breakfast I went to the goat meadow and milked all 3 goats. I came back with 5 litres of milk. 3 litres I poured to the pot with milk for cheese, and 2 litres I saved for my beloved muesli dish.

Right now I am eating the second plate with muesli and goat milk and it is really fabulous! :)
I still feel pain in my arms and back after yesterday journey, so I think I will have a rest before I will continue houseworks and farmworks. I want to make lots of tomatoes sauce and also apple jam. Still a lot of digging in rural papers in front of me due to additional vet control caused by the bloody lesbians. I think I will stop hosting strangers for a while. I need to rest from them and the problems which they cause to me. I need to rethink if it is a sense to invite them here. Of course not everybody is a jerk, I just should be much more careful and much more selective whom I invite to my farm. 

Angry like a hell!!!

I am really pissed off today! I hosted two Polish lesbian women. Before hosting them I was tolerant and didn’t mind much their sexual orientation which I consider weird and not natural at all (what I said openly to them before they came here), but I thought it was their business not mine. But after what they did to me today and yesterday – I have decided never ever host any lesbians in my home. I feel enormous disgust when I think that they slept in my bed, in my home!

Originally they supposed to sleep in their tent, but it was raining and they were asking if they can sleep at my home. So they slept. They slept in my bed, they stayed under my roof for 3 nights, they ate my food for 3 days. 

The 4th day – when they were leaving my house I also offered them some tea and pancakes. All for free.

Now I have big problems because when they left my house they falsely reported me that my animals are neglected. MY ANIMALS ARE NEVER NEGLECTED. MY ANIMALS ARE LOVED AND WELL CARED FOR. ALWAYS! I DO EVERYTHING WHAT I CAN TO PROVIDE THEM WITH ANYTHING THEY MIGHT NEED. THEY HAVE ABUNDANCE OF FOOD AND FREEDOM. THEY HAVE A PARADISE HERE AND MY GREAT LOVE!

I have no idea why those lesbians did it to me. They pretended to be nice to me while they were here. There was no fight between us, no anything. They left my farm sooner than it was agreed, but it was their choice. 

Maybe they thought that I will be feeding them for free for 2 weeks? Maybe they wanted to revenge because it was not possible here? I agreed to feed them only if they were to help here at least 5 hours daily. The 4th day they didn’t want to help and decided to leave my farm. They made up a sad story about a sick grandmother back in their city and we parted off. Soon after they left – first police came due to false delation. And today local vet came and wants to see all my rural papers, so I have extra work to do, not mention the fact, that I don’t feel well since two days and would like to lie down and rest instead of digging in pile of papers. I have terrible headache and tons of paper work in front of me. I am really furious! I hosted them with good will. They had accommodation and food for free. And they did something like that to me??? From now on I will be checking documents all coming strangers and in case of such misbehaviour I am going to sue them for huge compensation.

I went to the bedroom were they slept and cleaned the bed, changed the blankets. Erased any trace of the bloody lesbians. From now on - none, never, ever, any lesbian will be sleeping in my bed! Hough!

My horses are healthy and happy, have lots of grass to eat and lots of freedom - vast green pastures to galop. I love them and show them my love everyday. They trust me and love me and come to me to show it.
I care about them ALWAYS with ALL MY HEART. They are my children! They run freely around because this is their home and they are full right to have as much freedom here as possible. CouchSurfers are only guests here and they need to adjust to the place or not to come here.

Only very stupid lesbian from a city can acuse good breeder that she neglects her animals!

UPDATE 1 September 2012

FULL REFERENCES given by me to two CouchSurfers from Kraków:
Marta and Iza - malicious, false, nasty lesbians. They abused my hospitality in the worst possible way.  

If you invite them to your house, be aware, that you have just invited the most harmful enemies. 

They don’t act like friends. They act like the worst enemies. Sniffing around trying to find an excuse to report you to every possible institution. They treat your home like a hotel and they treat you as a hotel owner. For sure they are not your friends. They just come to use your place and use you. When they don’t get what they want to get – they go secretly behind your back to report you to all possible institutions and websites. They complain about house, farm, animals and of course about the host. They don’t deserve to be hosted by any farmer. 

They came for free vacation at my farm. I generously agreed to host them for free in my meadow for 10 days. 

They supposed to stay in their tent during this time. Instead, they insisted on staying IN MY HOUSE, yet after leaving my house they went strait a way to report that my house is renovated about what they knew perfectly well before they came to my farm. 

They were sleeping in my personal bedroom for 3 nights. They were bathing happily together in my bathroom for 3 nights. And on the 4th day behind my back secretly went to report me to local authorities and to cause as much problems as possible! This is how it looks like their gratefulness for hosting them in your place for free. They did even more harm to me. They know perfectly well, that I need here help with renovation and farming, so they deprived me any help by sending their malicious letters to help exchange websites and causing them to delete my accounts there. Evil women. The worst I have ever met. I wish I would never had hosted them in my house. They stayed here only 3 nights, but caused as much evil things to me as possible. I hate them. 

If you have a farm - I strongly advice you NEVER EVER INVITE THEM! You cannot trust them at all. They are not helpful - they are harmful. They hurt me and abused my hospitality in a nasty way! And they may do the same to you, if you take a risk to host them at your place.

Not too well

I don’t feel today too well and besides have tons of paper work to do, so decided to stay home and take care of it. First I collected some herbs from a meadow to help yourself with the pain, watered poultry and dogs, gave food to poultry and dogs. Outside some clouds but also sunshine. I think I will go to milk the goats a bit later when I am better. 

Yesterday I washed lots of dishes including these which left the two Cracovian women. I burned fire in the oven, burned all papers and sticks, heated water for washing the dishes and pots and cooked food for dogs. I also washed some towels.

Then I found another oxygen free water bottle and took it with me to the goats meadow to use it to the goats which needed it presently. Their little wounds heal well and are diminishing fast. I have changed goats’ positions, milked the three of them and returned home. 

Horses outside the window graze at the grass in front of the house cleaning it nicely. Right now the grass is very short, but at some spots needs improvements. I plan to make here some flower beds, but before will do it, I want the horses to eat all excessive grass.

I have put on some soft, comfortable clothes. I need to treat myself in a gentle way today :)
Outside is a bit cool, sometimes cloudy, sometimes sunshine.

I want to eat good breakfast and then take care of the papers. I have baked a fresh bread. Today I hope to make fresh apple jam.
The bread is not a common bread – I made milk bread, so it’s really delicious.

Motorbikes are coming

Three motorbikes are coming – CouchSurfers from Łódź. They have their own tent, sleeping bags, food – everything. They just want safe place to sleep a night before they will go back to their city.
I hope we will have enough time to do tour around most interesting places in my region and try the canoe I bought last year. If not  - a fireplace and long stories around it also would be nice opportunity

Irritated

I got irritated today with so called volunteers who apply to my farm even weeks or months before their arrival and then fail to come and yet lie cheeky about their reasons. This time American girl and another cheeky American guy from Israel made me angry. The girl had lots of excuses, but just a week ago she was so enthusiastic of coming here and there was no problem then. But she applied to other farm, probably many farms at the same time and after my acceptance of her arrival and exchange of some essential details about her coming and staying here – after a week when her arrival was agreed and arranged she said she will not come, because instead of coming to my farm she is going to other farm – to a Spanish farm. It is so irritating!

From the other hand the American guy who has just applied to my farm is obviously trouble maker. He has got a negative references from his past place, but I was eager to give him second chance and I accepted his offer, unfortunately the man turned out to be so rude and cheeky (probably it was the reason why he got the negative comment from his previous place) that I lost my temper and refused to host him and gave him negative reference as well.

I had such impatient moments today with the “volunteers”, that I nearly deleted my accounts at the volunteer’s websites. Most people who apply to my farm just waste my precious time and energy. I prefer to take care of my animals and farm instead of answering to volunteer’s offers and writing to them endless letters which mean nothing to them. I really got bored with so-enthusiastic-and-so-friendly-volunteer’s-letters – which most time are just empty “blah-blah” without real meaning.

Just seconds before I pasted this post onto the web - another American guy failed to come. 

I think I will resign from hosting volunteers. 

Fuck them all!

The Cracovian Women Have Arrived

The two Cracovian women have arrived. One is a doctor and the other a printer. They come from Cracow in southern Poland. They seem to be okay. They came here from Berlin via Warsaw. They were soaked after intensive rain reached them while they were walking to my farm from a bus 7,5km. They were exhausted after 1,5 day travel, so I let them sleep until late. They came as CouchSurfers yesterday, but after a short debate they decided to try wwoofing today. Today it was their first helping day. They were helping for 5 hours, although weren't pleased with the length of the helping hours, but they didn't have to take part in this. Saying truth, I would prefer them to not help and instead buy for themselves their own food, since I don't have much food to share right now. Besides they didn't say before they came here that they would like to wwoof here. I am not prepared for feeding strangers. My modest supplies are scarce. But I agreed to feed them, if they help at least 5 hours daily. We were cutting some branches and bushes in the orchard. We also dealt with goats – one of them hold goats while I was milking them. It was a real challenge, as one of the goats was kicking wildly and jumping violently ;)

I have served fresh dill bread, goat cheese, cabbage soup, pancakes, some tea, mint cool drink, pudding, coffee. They said they like my food, specially my goat cheese which makes me really happy :) I haven’t been doing goat cheese for 5 years :) And I have done it after such a long time and it was great :) Still is :) We had it for breakfast and now for supper as well, but this time with cream and sugar :)

At evening I asked them how they feel after their first day of volontariat?
They said, that okay.
I had asked, if they wanted tomorrow CouchSurfing or volontariat day?
“We have to finish cutting these bushes!” - bravely responded Iza.
“Great! I am so happy about it!” - I exclaimed.
“What, you thought that you will not have to cook tomorrow???” asked Iza with smile.
“No, I hoped that YOU will cook something nice tomorrow, but if you want to help it’s okay with me, I will cook something for you tomorrow as well :)” – I replied also with smile.

Cheese!

I have made white cheese. First since a long long time. I made pastry for pancakes, I am baking bread with dill.

Girls are coming! They should be around 5 p.m. I have big basket of apples. I intend to make lots of delicious jam. The weather is just excellent. Sunny, hot. Well, too hot to work outside,  but I need a least one walk outside to finish the electric fence and to cut some more bushes.

In the morning I opened for horses my part of yard. They came and readily have eaten the grass here. Still some should be cut down, but it’s less now than it was before.

My lovely bitch called Saba has killed a rat. I was just about to remove the corps from the yard, but it looks some other animal took care of it. Maybe Saba, but rather something else, what actually likes to eat rats.

I need a cat! A friend of mine has some kittens, but they are still small. They still drink milk from their mother.

Right now I can see through the window like Dakota is rolling in the yard. Before her younger sister was doing the same. Now they both just lying in the yard in the full Sun. 

Up we go! I am going to finish an electric fence today... 

Goats

I went to the goat meadow to take care of goats and to cut down some bushes there. I have given water to the goats and changed their positions. I have cut down 3 bushes and removed them from the cherry orchard. I decided to cut down at least 2-3 bushes every time I visit the meadow. After 10 days they all should be cut down. I have added some more wire to the electric fence there. Soon it will be complete with running current all around my orchards and pastures. I have fed poultry and given them water as well. I have fed my dogs. One more goat which was hurt is still in the stable. After healing her now she is okay, so I need to make a collar for her and take her for the meadow as well. I need to pour oxygen free water to two goats which got small wounds – one has it at her adder. Probably she hurt herself with a sharp grass, because the adder is big. The other goat – the male goat – he was pulling the rope so much that he hurt his neck. Now I need to take care of his neck as well and heal it.

Other goats are okay – clean and white. They don’t smell yet, as it is not a courting time.

Now lunch, then I will need to milk the goats. I should milk them in the morning, but I was busy with the above staff and now is noon. I need also rest a bit as I woke up at 4 a.m. and now I am a sort of tired. I am 9 hours at my legs.

Well, without resting I went to milk the goats. This time they had much less milk. One of the goats didn’t let me milk her till the end, I milked her as much as I could, but she was so incredibly kicking and jumping that some milk was left in her adder. I think I will take her closer to the house, because here I can tight her to the wall and prevent against moving so much. Besides she has a wound in one adder and needs my constant attention with it.

So today is her last day with the herd. Tomorrow I will take her back closer to the house.

While going to the goat meadow, I took with me the goat which was kept for some time in the stable due to her healing. Now she is fine and gladly went with me to the goats meadow. While we were crossing some meadows, orchard and wood she eagerly was picking up tasty for her weeds and plants. Now she is happily grazing in the goat meadow with great appetite. 

I have added the new milk to this one which is put aside for cheese making. Now in the pot should be around 7 litres of milk. I should be able to make from it a small cheese. Something like around 1 kilo of white fresh goat cheese. The water after cheese – whey - will be good for bread making, for drinking for dogs and hens.

The hens should start giving eggs after eating the food I bought them and drinking the whey. 

I have woken up before 7 p.m. Wow... After 2 p.m. I fell down asleep like a stone :) Now I am still a kind of tired, but at least I woke up :) In the past, for example 5 years ago I was up for 18 hours daily mostly working with goats and making cheese. All day I was milking my 20 goats and two cows and at night I was making cheese, yoghurt, kefir, pudding, cakes and such. I had no help then and no time to switch on TV to watch a movie. The Internet connection was poorer than now, really poor, but at least I had some contact with the world and friends.

I wish I knew then about helpx or workaway or wwoof :) Actually I independently came up then with idea of the exchange: vacation for help at farm. I have written about it at one Polish popular forum. Some people were enthusiastic about the idea, but some were vigorously against. I think my first volunteer arrived at my farm thanks to my posting at the forum. But it was much later, after the peak of my enormous amount of work, after milking and cheese making times. The first volunteers arrived here in the end of planting fruit trees. It was just 1,5 month help together a year, not enough really considering the amount of work I had to face then. Actually I have planted most of 2500 fruit trees on my own before the volunteers arrived. These trees which were planted by my volunteers didn’t survived mostly. I had explained to people how to plant, but obviously they did it the wrong way anyway when I was not watching them. I was today to see how many cherry trees survived in the place were helpers were planting them. Not much. Really few. But most was stolen by local mother fuckers. It will be necessary to plant new fruit trees again. But this time I don’t have money for new fruit trees. I still have to pay loan for those which I bought then. I need to multiply these trees which survived. Also soil there is bad. Well, in the places where cherry trees were planted I was exchanging the soil to more fertile. It was enormous amount of hand work. Still some places need to have exchanged the soil. It will be another Hercules task this autumn.

I am frying a chicken. Smells nice :)  I need some natural stream water to water my home plants and collect some dill for the potatoes. Up we go! :)

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I am watering the plants, also some in the garden, as days recently are really hot and vegetables need water now.

I can see spinach and lettuce growing, also some reddish. They are still little, but in a week or so should be ready.

Today’s heat gave way to pleasant evening. It is still very warm, but not that hot as during midday. I am walking back and forth with stream water and water numerous plants in the house, by the way collecting tools which I left outside. 

I have eaten delicious dinner: baked chicken, cooked potatoes decorated with fresh dill. Hot drink – meant tea with sugar made from freshly picked up meant from the banks of my little river. It was really royal dinner after the long work day :) I know, I shouldn’t eat so late, but I deserved it – I was working today 12 hours... And still one task more in front of me – need to bake a bread, as girls are coming tomorrow.