Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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I put the cows in with the hog, then this happened
FreeBee and The Cows are sleeping together. More on this later. First – here is the funniest thing that happened this weekend! I am putting this right at the top because we need a laugh! Here is the writing from the weekend. I feel totally confident with the week-day TKG Take Ten, I think these…
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Keep Your Hair on
An old fashioned saying of my grandfathers. In other words – settle down. No ripping the wig off your head and trampling on it in frustration. Do you remember that saying? I told Jude this morning – keep your hair on – as he tried to rip the gate off its hinges. Again. Jude is…
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Something this way weary comes
The first thing I do in the morning is check my photographs from yesterday. And these photographs guide my post for today. But yesterday I was feeling cold and out of sorts. Not quite poorly but a little bloody. When you are feeling bloody it is like you don’t know where to put your body.…
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Wind and Rain, No Pictures Make
It is early morning here on the plains. And while a lot of Illinois got wild weather overnight all we have here at the farm is wind and cold. No-one was particularly disappointed. About the lack of wild weather. And someone is still on a diet. Both these someone’s actually. Talking of diets. My daughter…
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The Highs and Lows
Today we will reach a record high of 70f (21C) at 3pm and within 12 hours the temperature will have dropped to 24f (-4.5C). The highs are not a surprise anymore – it has been an unseasonably warm February – it is these massive swift temperature swings that will cause damage. We will be frozen…
The Kitchen's Garden 