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RISING UP
All around me. In all four cardinal directions – but nothing to do with the sins – the wheat is sprouting. Struck. Rising up! Wheat is a hardy grass. Some varieties are sown just before the cold really hits yet are strong enough to weather the horrible winter and return in the spring. No wonder…
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DUCK DUCK
As I moved from one job to the next mending fences and cleaning out pens, laying in straw and filling water tanks, shifting pigs – a flock of ducks waddled along behind me. Scolding and chattering.
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START IN THE BARN
With the six. And their field. All the oats and corn are gone already. They ate all the best feed first . Being pigs and all. We have late summer colour succumbing to cold frosty mornings. It was quite cold yesterday – it was a heavy frost actually – my car was iced up but…
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I AM NOT AN APRICOT TREE
And do not need to be chilled every winter but here I am looking at another mid west winter and we all know how I feel about those.
The Kitchen's Garden 