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The Scent of Walnuts
Since my wicked bout with Covid in New Zealand I have had either no sense of smell or ALL the smells! My sense of smell comes in waves. And the other day after delivering another batch of found walnuts R – she is the BEST forager – R said her car smelt like walnuts. And…
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That Dawn Again!
I was up before the dawn today. Letting the dogs out and opening the door for the white chickens to get onto the grass and making my cup of tea before I scuttled back to my bed still warm from a nights restful sleep and jumped in so that I could write to you. It…
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Well, that was a Surprise
I was feeding the cows their cabbages and pumpkins and guess who crashed the party! I let the little pigs out to have a rummage in theit field and it only took about 20 minutes for these two to find me. The other two had stayed where they were left. But back into the small…
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When you hit that overwhelmed feeling
Identify it first. That overwhelmed feeling. Give it a word. The first word that comes to mind. The word I am giving that feeling today is: prepare. Breathing helps. A good declutter of the brain helps.(not sure how to do that yet, but like my cutlery drawer it is long overdue). We are icebergs. Or…
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Deep Night Chook Protection Squad
Boo and I were slow to rise this morning. We were out hunting in the night. Boo woke me twice convinced that something was trying to get into his chickens. The chickens are locked into their small Fort Knox for all the hours of darkness but maybe something was circling the walls – something evil…
