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Divide-ing time
I should dig this up and divide it but who has time for things like that. There really is very little time for gardening when there is so much to be done on the farm and The Armadillo and all his skin protocols takes a good two hours out of the day. Bless him. The…
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The new wild gardens
The new wild gardens down the back are about to burst out in full bloom The most dramatic being the sunflowers. I have the list of seeds somewhere I must find it for you. I will leave it in the comments later this morning. Wai the Armadillo is quite sprightly now though I am concerned…
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Sunday from Monday
And today being Monday we look back on Sunday which was a gloriously sunny gardening day until the clouds rolled in and it rained buckets again. So far this summer we have had torrential downpours every week. Sometimes two or three a week. There has been no chance to get another cut of hay…
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Wag the Tail
Very basically skin consists of three layers. The epidermis (the top), the dermis (next layer) and the subcutaneous layer. I found a page for you to read about it if you have forgotton what you learnt in school. When Wai came he could not wag his tail because it was encased in the brown hard…
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Lazy Saturday
Kind of. I gave myself a wee sleep in this morning – until 6.30 – which meant I slept through my writing time but I knew you would not mind. Here is yesterday. And this morning as Boo and Ton and I drove along the track on the 4wheeler (Boo behind me and Ton sitting…
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Down the road
and after work came a 25 foot oak tree. Trundling down the road laid out in the back of Our Johns truck. An hours drive with a big beautiful tree trailing out behind him. It was in the way of the new pipes pathway at the site and the council men were going to yank…
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