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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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WE HAVE FLOUR
Saturday morning – I simply do not understand why there is a run on flour – it started way before the Shelter at Home order. Are all these people baking? They must be I suppose. But how does a big company like Bob’s Mill who say they mill local wheat – how do they run…
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I NEED A DRINK
Well you know the rules! Once I have written the hearing I can’t change it. Here is a not-clever chicken, stuck in the porch railings. The two dogs looked on in bemusement. Not sure whether to run for help or give it a good shove. Yet we keep raising them! Everyone was out in the…
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NOT QUITE SPRING
But back in the fifties today!! And look who turned up. Went to buy bolts at the hardware store and came home with chicks! Fourteen of them. Eight …. and six …. They are merrily eating out-of-date corn grits from the mill and snuggling under their light. The rest of us are in the muck.…
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TWO ENTRIES
Friday Morning. I am sitting outside the Immigration Office this morning – at least a building called the Application Support Center where we are sent for the official beginning of the agreed Card process. There are quite a few of us foreigners sitting here, waiting in the freezing cold for the office to open. I…
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MR FLOWERS
Though today it has done nothing but rain, which is kind of nice when I am out of the rain working in the cold dry mill, though the rain was falling on snow and tonight the whole slushy mess will turn to ice and though yesterday was blowing snow with a little sun chiming in:…
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