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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Don’t you know it is rude to Stare!
Yesterday the bees were out. The two remaining hives seem to be doing very well. When my help is home on the weekend we will look inside their hives and do a health check. Kupa was caught going about his ablutions. Vigorously. He has reminded me that I promised to go to the Bantam Swap…
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Walkabout the Farmy on May Day.
Ton and I had a busy productive day yesterday. I called the Swine Herd Man and apparently Sheila the Babe is only a week old, evidently pigs will also make you wait, even though you think you know when they are due, so she will be allowed to leave her Mother in a month. Waiting…
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Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy Jig
We rose at 3.15 am California time and began the pressure cooker air travel race to reach The Prairies by 6.30 pm. Travelling is all about waiting, interminable waiting, interspersed with wild spurts of frantic power walking navigating literally MILES of corridors to find yet another elusive gate. Why is it that my connecting gate…
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Mama’s Pavlova. The Secrets.
Good morning from California! It is warm here. Wonderful. And time to make our celebratory Pavlova. This is the quintessential down-under dessert. As you know I am from New Zealand and I am more than happy to claim Pavlova as a New Zealand ballerina dessert. Pavlova is easy to make. However there are four things…
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Minty, TonTon and The chicks get some Retirement Home loving!
We were still setting up at the retirement home when the residents started arriving. At one point I said to one of the nurses, wow there are a lot of people here and she said, Oh my dear, that is only one wing, there are two more coming. The corridors were rippling with slow moving…
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The Lambs find TonTon and Sad Bee News.
TonTon is afraid. He is very afraid. There is a Minty looking at his blue ball. And he is hoping he will not be commanded to share. Sharing toys is nice Ton. The terror of having to share! Maybe with all three of the lambies! Poor Ton, being picked on by those iddy biddy…
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