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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Once more into the breach
Difficult the calf, who was always so hard to feed and who ironically never got the scours, has come down with pneumonia. Her tall bony body is thumping with it. The man said calves never recover once they start to thump, that I should just let her go. He said it kindly. Like many of the…
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Piggie Loves
Use your inside voice, Bubba. Ok Mama. Pig kisses. Got to love them. Yesterday I started another ricotta to be made into ricotta salata. I will make as many of these as I can for the winter (they take 90 days to cure) . Creme Fraiche which we eat with EVERYTHING. and another buttermilk…
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A Wedding
In the Country. Our good friends down the road had a wedding for their daughter under the trees in their three acre back yard and were kind enough to invite us. We went to the wedding then milked the cow, fed the calves and went back for the dinner and dancing. As usual I annoyed the…
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Pig television
Yesterday the gentle mid summer Lull continued. All the calves ate their meals like good little calves. Little is a tiny maybe little bit better but at least holding his own. He still smells bad and the flies are at him the way they always pick on animals who are sickly. I was watching him yesterday morning…
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Summer like cotton sheets
Yesterday I was feeding the chickens and suddenly looked up as I felt a Lull descend like a floating white cotton sheet upon the Farmy. A summer lull. Long before the times of fitted sheets, (which I hate by the way – they are useless when the elastic gives up), my mother would make the…
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