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Filthy Weather
Yesterday was spent driving through the filthy weather to the airport to deliver Hugo to the plane. Then driving back through filthy weather home again. Filthy can be beautiful though. It just depends how you look at it. And who you look at it with. On the way up I had two young men and on…
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Pacing
Yesterday I swung from one task to the next, achieving nothing, starting stuff and then wandering in another direction and finding myself doing something completely different. Trying to restart the first one again then discovering task number three or four. I left the water running into the sink and forgot to put the water on…
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A Jigsaw Farm with a Plan
At this time of year all farmers in this hemisphere are shuffling animals into their winter pens, arranging their outside access. Dragging out the heated water bowls, stopping up drafts, creating an extra feed pile in case we get snowed in, checking the generator and finding the heating lamps. We always prepare for the most extreme weather.…
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The winter barn
John has been working hard to get the winter barn, our other barn across the creek that is really a ditch, up to code for the winter. We prefer this barn for the animals in the winter as it has a dirt floor. The concrete floor in the home barn, like our temperatures, gets SO…
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The new and the forever
All things repeat. All things. And now Paris. Again. The world is a frightening and fascinating place. I have lived in a number of cities in the world. I have made terrible mistakes and wondrous decisions. So I am not naive. And as you know I have made a decision to move to the country, grow…
The Kitchen's Garden 