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Human Burial Rites
In the last two days three members of The Fellowship have lost someone they loved. A husband, a father, an aunt. People. While exchanging emails with each of our friends it has become very clear to me that many of us have very different, what is the word? ways? family traditions? protocols?. when it comes…
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I have decided Not to Shop for anything at all until AFTER the American Thanksgiving. This way I can avoid the Christmas Rush just a little longer. (They are already playing Christmas Carols). Thanksgiving is now Pre-Christmas. I think Thanksgiving is such an innocent and genuine celebration. Just food. Just people. What more could one possibly want.…
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Off the farm
There was rather a big family event, yesterday. Wonderful and distracting. So once again we will leave Nanny Boo to watch the kittens until miss c gets herself back in gear. Sometimes it is hard to tell where one kitten starts and the other one begins isn’t it. They are such a tangle. Soon, soon. Love…
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The positives …
… about being below freezing for so long. And there are positives, it cannot possibly be all bad. Not in Our World anyway. There are lots of good things. The pigs get a warm breakfast of soaked alfalfa cubes, garlic, kitchen scraps and molasses. It actually looks pretty tasty.. if you are a pig. The…
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Getting Going
Yesterday I could not get going. It was so freezing cold outside – hovering around 20F (-6C) – not that cold compared to what is coming but the wind was screaming and it felt so much colder – I was driven back inside, straight after doing the most basic of the chores, but I could not…
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Elsie is Here
My new house cow, Elsie has finally arrived. She is a Dutch Belted Cow. The Dutch Belted is still on the Critically Rare list with around 300 registered pure bred animals in the country. I was lucky to buy her at a very good price becase her owner had shifted to a property with less land.…
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