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How to discipline a very young pup
With the addition of Blue on the verandah and the peacocks in the Gods, the morning and evening chores have taken a reshuffle. I know that is not a particularly exciting development. But the settling and early discipline of the pup is crucial. It is important for me not to let the training of the…
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A little bit of green popped through yesterday
It was warm with a wee shower of rain. And without hesitation, as though the grass had been crouched on its toes, clover eyes screwed shut in concentration listening for the sun, feeling for the moist warm showers, the fields leapt up and grew green. In a day. There is still not enough grass to…
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Guess which one is Little Boy Blue
The Matriarch and Our John were very right to feel dubious about taking me along on their outing to the Bantam Swap Market at the Fairgrounds. Because right there in a cage in the middle of market madness was Little Boy Blue. I knew he was out there somewhere. So I brought him home. Now…
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Trouble in The Gardens.
Don’t you hate it when the internet is broke? Sorry about yesterday. We are right on the very steep edges of a black hole of nefarious internet coverage. Evidently there was a man up the only tower that can reach us. I guess he was reading the book because it took him two days to…
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No time to loll about, Spring is BUSY!
We have water and sun. Soon maybe we will have pasture rising up from the tiny seeds we scattered a week ago. But not yet though. I think the seeds will wait for decent shower of spring rain and some warmth. Mama is not amused that she cannot get her whole body through the lambs…
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