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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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GOODBYE HALLOWEEN
Hullo PUMPKINS! ( sorry for the spelling mistake! I fixed it). A lovely local town donated all their Halloween pumpkins to us! Twenty something of them. And the pigs could not be happier! I am going up to Chicago at Thanksgiving. I want to get home-made whole kernel bread into the hands of the homeless.…
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TWO POINTS OF VIEW
Looking West. Then walking West and looking back to the East. Watching the wheat grow. It feels like our house is on an enormous emerging lawn. As my plan to be the Little Red Hen takes root. Autumn is here I think. For the next ten days our average highs are in the forties. Cold…
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SEE THE LITTLE LOAF?
That’s because I put half a cup of sifted buckwheat in there. Everything else was the same. All Glenn. It is a cow pat! Amazing how buckwheat affects the rise of a loaf. Tasty though! For a cowpat! Not pretty. Above is my kitchen last night. All about the flour. It rained and rained –…
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RAGGLE TAGGLE
This old rooster. He is positively ancient. He is so scrawny that he is able to hide from the big young roosters, keeping out of trouble. Mainly though he just hangs out in the feed shed tucked in behind the bags. In fact he has been around so long that even his name has drifted…
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FALLING DOWN
It has been windy these last few days which has reminded us of how wind free this summer was. However while I was at work there must have been one really strong wind – here they call it a Flat Wind. Whatever it was, it managed to topple two trees by the cows concrete pad.…
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