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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Spring in the Sun
Awake, thou wintry earth – Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn” I was looking for Mother Teresa’s quote, to verify that I had the words right for the header,and came across this other quote (above). So all day yesterday I was marching about saying…
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A quick show of hands.
Very quickly I would like to ask a favour. I am still working on the blog page and due to popular demand; the T Shirts. I need to know how many of you might want to buy a Sheila The Sassy T Shirt. If you have a moment could you click on your size so…
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Sprucing things up…
Tomorrow I am going to take a blog day off. It snowed a few more inches in the night and I can go nowhere anyway so I am going take the chance to spruce the look of The Kitchen’s Garden blog up a bit. Up my game if you will. I think we all deserve…
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Hush …
Shh. The lamb and the dog are sleeping. Together. Again. Last night a very strange thing happened, well it happened the night before but I was more bemused than alarmed the night before. Last night just got weird. Usually I feed the lamb at 10pm and 2am. Every four hours. Well the night before last…
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Ice, Ice everywhere and not a block for my drink
Thank you for all yesterdays excellent comments re: printing Sheila’s calender. I have some wonderful avenues to explore now, in my search for ways for Sheila to make some pin money to buy extra feed and maybe outfit a new summer area for her in the Rat House. Mama and the girls are living in…
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