Disquietingly quiet at Kitchen Cottage...

Joan (of Arc) went to slaughter last week and the sheep yesterday.  There are no outside animals and only chickens outside.

It feels so very strange, :( 

I usually have a pig here over winter (Joan)

basically hotnow, yes.  There is always the silence of death on livestock properties in the autumn.  This year I have no hold over breeding stock to muffle that silence.