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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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In a Good Year
Oh don’t you hear me say THAT often. Well, in a good year. All things being equal. If no-one gets sick, if we have enough rain at the right time, if we have enough sun. But I forget there is no Good Year: every year is just a year, every season – another season. Always…
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I got close
But the day whipped past. The boys delivered the chickens to the abbatoir nice and early, then while the Day Mother cleaned my endlessly busy kitchen we ran farm work until the hay started in the afternoon. It was a long day. We worked right into the evening. And much later in the evening the boys and…
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Three Girls and a Pig
I know there are a million things to tell you about yesterday. Piles of people and food and delights. Girls and calves and little pigs. Food and more food! Many hands. Lovely. But it is baling day and there are piles of things to get done first. And it is not even dawn and I…
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Not a Little
Now which if those piglets worked out how to pull their fan down off the wall? Not clever in this hot weather. We lost Little yesterday. I mean literally lost him not the metaphorical lost that means a coffin. No. Hugo and I were dealing with some very hot meat chickens and in the…
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Get a ha’y cut
That is probably the lamest title I have ever written but you will remember that the rule on titles is to write down the first thing that comes to my mind and there you are. We got the hay cut .. and then this morning we had a thunder-storm but no rain with it although…
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