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THE LADY PIG FARMER
I did not set out to be a pig farmer but there you are. Yesterday when I was talking to the man who was going to reverse my trailer into a tight spot, I heard someone else say behind me, in a low voice, to someone I could not see “Oh, that’s Cecilia. She’s the Lady…
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FRIED EGGS
At last I am back on the farm! I have been out delivering hogs on the most awful roads. Usually this is a fifty minute drive in the big truck hauling the stock trailer. But this morning about twenty minutes into the dawn drive, with three hogs in the trailer and two dogs sitting ramrod…
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IN HEAT
Every now and then we have to talk of “country matters.” Molly came into heat yesterday and Manu was invited to “visit”.
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REALITY
Yesterday, when my new second-hand shelves arrived in three random boxes ready for me to put the shelves together without directions and with pieces missing, I thought how this would be a fun game to play on a Reality TV show. The player is handed a box with no labels and no instructions and not only must…
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TWO BY TWO
I try so hard to allow myself to feel the contentment of what is in my moment. To lie in the damp sunlight and chew my cud. To wander from patch to patch lazily searching out green. Instead, I endlessly worry about things that have not even happened yet. Committing solution scenarios to memory. Looking for problems that…
The Kitchen's Garden 