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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Shades of black and white
Cold up here. -26C/-16F yesterday morning. I did not go outside all day and I don’t even feel guilty. These photos were taken through the window of the slow moving shuttle as we crept up the mountain to Canmore on Christmas Eve. I hope you had a lovely day yesterday. Lots of love celi
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Christmas Book List (2016)
I have arrived in Canmore after a very eventful journey. More on that later as it is Christmas Eve here and time to relax. I have completed our Christmas Book List at the very last minute. There are no pictures which will make it easier to print. I have pictures for you tomorrow – it has…
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Annual Book List request 2016
Firstly – Thank You for yesterday- I have many great questions to answer while I am travelling. This will be fun. Most excellent. Now the next thing on our Christmas List is our Christmas Book List! I had not forgotton. This year, because last years list got SO BIG and SO LONG (like many of you…
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A question?
Three sleeps until I climb onto a plane to Canada for the first of my winter Travels. My first trip will be up into the mountains behind Calgary, Canada. Up to Canmore, a small skiing town. My son works on the ski fields up there and also trains avalanche dogs. He has two. One of…
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In the night,
as one lone coyote howled out on the frozen tundra (and Boo answered from THE COUCH! ), the temperatures dropped soundlessly to -12F/-24C. By midnight the wave of frigid air had rolled through and without pause the temperatures began to rise again. Not a breath of wind just this inexorable deepening then lightening of terrible…
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