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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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How to make dishwasher powder and Daisy: back to normal.
How to make your own dishwasher powder that works is so easy. Like the laundry powder I was dubious but this stuff is great. It is not a by product of nuclear waste so it will not take off baked on food or clean burnt pots (the best way to clean a burnt pot is…
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Daisy was poorly yesterday
I heard a meteoroligist on the radio yesterday saying that we have another 15 days of this cold weather. Well, I thought. I am not sure I can wait THAT long. So yesterday I started spring without her. Opened the barn doors wide even though it was only just above freezing. …
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This was not yesterday
Yesterday I went back through some of our old shots so that I could compile an extra page that new people can refer to if they need to identify one of the animals or birds. It sits up there, (look up) right next to About. It is The Cast of Characters Page. Do you see…
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A snowy-sun shower!
Gentlemen Close your Ears! Hush. Sshh, I will tell you what I hate about winter coldness the most. You ladies will understand this one. The toilet seat. It Chills me. I am getting very tired of my freezing porcelain toilet seat. I sit down and squawk at its icy coldness. There you are now. You…
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Marauding pigs break into the chook-run
Then realised that the run is not where the food is and only the winter door was open, which is only big enough for a chicken. And the netting that they had broken in through did not allow them to break back out. So they called for help, and I had to lift the netting…
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