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Mud on my foot
Peghorn (in the header) has mud on his feet from being out in the field searching for forgotton corn too – he is my oldest rooster. He is Old old. He is a loner. He had a tough summer as the oldest rooster – all the young roosters lined up to fight him. He did…
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The Green
Still the weather is holding. And the fields have some green. During the long nights it drops below freezing then in the day times UP the temperature comes again. It is not unusual for us to hover around the freezing mark at this time of year, and not unusual for there to be a little green…
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Dog with Pipe
Yes – who would have thought it – TonTon is a smoker. Sigh. He knows there is a no smoking rule in the barn. He assured me he does not inhale. What rot. Like I have never heard that before! A pigs dinner. Though some pigs have to fight to get to eat their dinners unmolested by dratted…
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The face of Boo
This is the face I get when it is time to go out and feed everyone. This is Boo’s are-you-coming-now? Look. Yesterday it was so cold and blowing hard out here. Wind is often hard to take a photo of in the winter but the chickens are helping out – showing their petticoats. Geraldine at…
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Look Good on Paper
I went to Our John’s Work Do last night. I had forgotton about it so I was still in my work clothes, filthy, straw in my hair, working, when he came out to the barn, home from work early, showered and dressed to tell me we were leaving in thirty minutes. I did one of…
