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Guess how much Sheila weighs!
A competition for us. Go on guess. How much do you think Sheila weighs? I finally took my dressmakers tape out to the barn to measure her and then applied the equation and the result is pretty close to her actual weight they say. So I have the answer in my mind. What you do is measure your pigs length from…
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Nosy Cow
As I wrote Nosy Cow I wondered how often I had written Nosy Cow as a header. But every where I turned yesterday with a fork full of cow manure, as I cleaned and remade the cows beds, there was Lady Astor, watching, standing right in the way, not moving an inch, being suspiciously sweet…
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Tima! Come Home!
In the mornings when it is sunny (and not too muddy yet) I let the kunekune’s Tima and Tane out for a walk. Tane goes straight out to the South field. Tima heads the other way – down the drive right to the end and picks through the field in the East. There was corn in…
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The Nod
Geraldine the peahen does this very sweet thing when I call to her. I call her name. She gives a little nod, a dip of her head, then lilts her eyes to the side and tipping her beak she looks to me out from under her lashes as if she had lashes. A tilt of her head…
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The POG
Poggy, poggy, poggy. How has this happened – we have had such a poggy winter. Though I am not complaining – I have not been Bad Cold outside once this year. You remember that cold that brings such pain to our hands and feet that I grimace and grit my teeth as I work until the cold…
The Kitchen's Garden 