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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.

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  • I’LL LET YOU KNOW

    I’LL LET YOU KNOW

    When I can think of a header that is not ‘more rain’. I will let you know. Another deluge yesterday evening.

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  • REMEMBER

    REMEMBER

    Don’t read too much into my headings. They are often ( usually) cryptic and probably ( always) without thought. Yesterday’s ‘throw in the towel’ heading was part of my discussion about the endless RAIN!

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  • THROW IN THE TOWEL

    Again with the daily rain. And these are not gentle summer rains. These are full on furious thunder and lightening storms with torrential downpours of inches at a time.

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  • MINDS OF THEIR OWN

    MINDS OF THEIR OWN

    Yesterday morning a cow and her calf broken out of a neighbors field walked across the road and broke INTO my field. John’s son reported a disturbance over there and when I arrived I was bemused to find I had an extra cow dozing under the trees.

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  • HAYS IN!

    HAYS IN!

    I don’t even know how many bales yet but definitely over two hundred. There is a counter on the baler but I forgot to look. John’s friends helped and lucky too because only a hour or so after the bales were in and the men were fed the skies opened up and it poured and…

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  • Untitled post 39046

    Poppy is being very relaxed. Which is par for the course at the beginning of the piglet time . Seven little piglets who have shown no interest in their creep at all this time. Hopefully soon. The babies are always feeding and Poppy is just hot and really tired. Plus her nipples hurt! I let…

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