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Mystery Solved
The egg stealer was a ‘possum. I had left the chook house door open, while I was at work, and Boo found the ‘possum sneaking out of the chook house. Last night. After I got home from work. When we went out to shut up all the barn doors for the night. The chickens were…
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Here Comes the Sun!
Rejoice! The sun! I am doing a little jig in my head! I will write quickly and get dressed and out there to work in the sun and absorb some Vitamin D. Before the clouds gather again. Though. Even sitting inside writing feels like a new world. With all this bright buttery sun shining in…
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Take care with your Words
Or this happens. Yesterday quickly blew out and the internet slowed to an intermittent crawl and I was unable to get to TKG TAKE 10 in a timely fashion and was running late trying to load it and look what happened. I saw this just before I walked into my night job. When I checked…
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Quacker has a Visitor from the Wild 😀
I had fed Mr Flowers out the front then walked to the car, around the back, to go into town for my morning visit to my MiL and as I drove round the drive Quacker quacked loudly to me from a puddle in the back drive way. Goodness you move fast Quacker, I said –…
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Pop Quiz! Identify this:
In the absence of sunlight: it is time to entertain ourselves! You have three seconds! Three Two One DING! Oh you are all too good. Yes. It is indeed a teenager cow’s nose. The cow was saying to me – quit with the photographing- throw the damn hay over already! The mystery of the missing…
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When there are no eggs three days running
No eggs – anywhere. And I was collecting six eggs a day until three days ago. They laid right through the deep freeze. So I know the chickens are laying somewhere. You know what this means right. The little buggers are laying elsewhere, probably UNDER the boxes and at this time of year and with…
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