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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Who is looking in your door?
I am a very lucky girl. A. because I love to have Tima looking through my door and B. because Tane cannot climb the steps – yet! Anyway he is too busy in the frog garden, he has discovered some unharvested beets and has a pink nose and lipsticked lips from digging them up and scoffing…
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Queenie
Welcome Home. This is just camera trickery making Ton look so small. She and Elsie are instant friends. Absolutely no problem at all. Though she has put on a bit of weight has our Queenie! And hopefully pregnant. We will know in the New Year. I hope you have a lovely day. Your friend on…
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SUN!!!
Yes! For the first time in Months, we had a sunny day all day. The whole day. And tomorrow is the shortest day. Oh JOY! Here is something I found on the internet. I don’t know what half that means. All that is really important to me is that from tommorrow on the days begin to lengthen…
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Night …
The Matriarch and I went out to the town yesterday. We seldom go to town and I was home late. Well, 4.30pm but the winter dark comes early. No-one minded. No animals minded anyway. They all eat hay and there was plenty of that left out for them to munch during the day. Sheila was up…
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Merry Xmas Pictures
I know it is not Christmas yet. But I could not resist. Kittens in a basket. You can’t get more Christmassy than this. Kittens. What can you do? One more left for another good home yesterday. Now there are three. Sheila got up late yesterday afternoon, limped very slowly to where Hop and Pop Poppy was…
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Sheila has trotter trouble
The day before yesterday Sheila pulled up lame, by that afternoon she was not walking at all. This happens to Sheila sometimes, she had been out in the field and I think she trips on the ruts, or the coming rain upsets her bones but usually it is the hip that was gouged by the…
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