It’s harvest time! This week we were getting down and dirty in the garden. The only things that were naughty were the phallic looking or overly suggestive carrots. Shocking really how pornographic they can be. Sorry no pics… I was afraid I may be reported for vegetable porn.
First, we conquered the cabbage patch. Profitable work, and fun ta boot! The hubby picked and peeled the balls of leaves. Cleaning off the layers of snail eaten bits and then passed me the heads to stack in the wheel barrel.
We filled three or four barrels. I toyed with calling this post “catching cabbage”. Rain has soaked the cabbage heads and made them heavy. As I caught them, they smacked hard against my fingers and palms and a spray of water would fly past.
After so much rain we were lucky to have a good harvest, but still we lost some of them to rotten soaking messes that stank of gooey, slimy leaves. Yum!
The next day it was celery root, beets, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. To be sure, my hands are dry and rough after digging in the clay for soil that is is our garden. It sucks the moisture right out of the fingers. I will digging dirt out from under my nails for some time.
The smell of the pigs premium export filled our nostrils. We listened to them serenade us with their grunts and squeals from inside the adjacent pen inside the barn. It’s amazing how the smell of pigs and cows are the same the world over.That scent takes me back to childhood. It is strange, how it makes me feel at home.
Serbs always ask me how I like going to work in the village. I guess they assume it is foreign to me. But it is the place I feel most at home. My days of walking the streets of NYC have not spoiled me for life on the farm. I love the country life.
Our village kitty especially brings me joy. Lenka the kitten was our shadow, meowing time to time for attention and cuddles. At 3 months, she is already earning her keep catching mice! What a great little cat!
This is the kind of sweet sweaty labor that makes coming home at the end of the day, and taking a shower feel so good.
Dobar Dan Y’all!
Chronicles of Serbia 
I dread to think of the searches you’re going to get after writing ‘vegetable porn’ 🙂
I should do a post on that!
Everyone should do a post on that 😉
Cute kitty!
Thanks! She is a sweety.
I demand photos of the carrots! Just kidding. What are you going to do with all your veggies? Will you be processing them in any way, or will you just use them in normal cooking? Sounds like you have a lot of cabbages – I don’t know how I’d get through that many. So true about the cows and pigs. I grew up with that smell, too, and find that smell quite comforting. It somehow feels like home!